Carsten Koch ved Nordisk konf integr flyktninger Juni 2017

Carsten Johan Koch (born April 27, 1945) is a Danish

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

and former

Social Democratic Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote soci ...

politician and minister. He was born in

Kongens Lyngby Kongens Lyngby (, Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping street and the site of ...

, Denmark, to tailor Robert Koch and Elly J. Koch. He graduated from Lyngby State School in 1964 and received a

cand.polit. Candidate (Latin ''candidatus'' or ''candidata'') is the name of various academic degrees, chiefly in Scandinavia, the Soviet Union, the Netherlands and Belgium. In Scandinavia, it is a higher professional-level degree usually corresponding to 5– ...

from the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in ...

in 1971. From 1973 to 1975 he was a graduate student in the Department of Economics of the University of Copenhagen, and in 1975 he became an assistant professor and then from 1978 to 1982 an associate professor there. From 1982 to 1993, he was an economist with the (Economic Council of the Labour Movement). In 1993 he became head of the department, in 1994 the director, and later in 1994 the treasurer. Koch was the director of

Danske Bank Danske Bank A/S is a Danish multinational banking and financial services corporation. Headquartered in Copenhagen, it is the largest bank in Denmark and a major retail bank in the northern European region with over 5 million retail customers. ...

from 1 September 2000 until 2008, when he became chairman of the (Danish Tax Commission). In 2009, Carsten Koch was appointed CEO of LD (now ) on a two-year contract. In 2010, he was appointed president of the (Employment Council). In 2014, he was chairman of the Expert Committee on Active Employment Efforts (the Carsten Koch Committee).

Political career

* Tax Minister in the Poul Nyrup Rasmussen II Cabinet from 1 November 1994 to 30 December 1996 * Tax Minister in the Poul Nyrup Rasmussen III Cabinet from 30 December 1996 to 23 March 1998 *

Minister of Health A health minister is the member of a country's government typically responsible for protecting and promoting public health and providing welfare and other social security services. Some governments have separate ministers for mental health. Coun ...

in the Poul Nyrup Rasmussen IV Cabinet from 23 March 1998 to 23 February 2000 * Member of the

Folketing The Folketing ( da, Folketinget, ; ), also known as the Parliament of Denmark or the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national legislature (parliament) of the Kingdom of Denmark—Denmark proper together with the Faroe Islands ...

for

Frederiksborg County Frederiksborg Amt ( en, Frederiksborg County) is a former county (Danish: ''amt'') in the north of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. Effective January 1, 2007, the county was abolished and merged into Region Hovedstaden The Capital Re ...

Council from 11 March 1998 to 31 August 2000

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Koch, Carsten 1945 births Living people Danish economists Social Democrats (Denmark) politicians Danish Tax Ministers Danish Health Ministers 20th-century Danish politicians University of Copenhagen alumni Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen People from Kongens Lyngby Members of the Folketing 1998–2001