Jakob Ellemann-Jensen (born 25 September 1973) is a Danish politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of Denmark and

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since 2022. He has been the leader of Venstre since 2019. A member of the

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since the 2011 general election, he served as Minister for Environment and Food under Prime Minister

Lars Løkke Rasmussen Lars Løkke Rasmussen (; born 15 May 1964) is a Danish politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2022. He previously served as the 25th Prime Minister of Denmark from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2019. He was the lead ...

from 2 May 2018 to 27 June 2019. (section "CV"). He was spokesman on political affairs for Venstre from 2015 to 2018 and again briefly in 2019.

Early life

Ellemann-Jensen was born on 25 September 1973 in

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, approximately 25km (15.5 mi) north of

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. He is the son of former

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Uffe Ellemann-Jensen and former editor-in-chief Alice Vestergaard. Ellemann-Jensen graduated from N. Zahle's School in 1992. He went on to complete his

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at the

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in 1999, as well as his MSc in 2002, also at Copenhagen Business School. From 2000 to 2002, he worked as a legal advisor for PricewaterhouseCoopers and from 2002 to 2005 as a lawyer at IBM Denmark, where he later became head of the contract and negotiation department. From 2007 to 2011, he worked as a corporate lawyer for

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Political career

Ellemann-Jensen was first elected into parliament in the 2011 election, receiving 7,786 votes; he was reelected in the 2015 election with 8,678 votes. In 2018, Ellemann-Jensen became the minister for Environment and Food in the third Løkke Rasmussen cabinet. Ellemann-Jensen was elected again in the

2019 Danish general election General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark on 5 June 2019 to elect all 179 members of the Folketing; 175 in Denmark proper, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. The elections took place ten days after the European Parliament ...

, receiving 19,388 votes. After Lars Løkke Rasmussen stepped down as Venstre's party leader after the election, the party elected Ellemann-Jensen as the new leader.

Other activities

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, Member of the European GroupMembership

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* , - , - 1973 births Living people Copenhagen Business School alumni Agriculture ministers of Denmark Danish Ministers for the Environment Venstre (Denmark) politicians IBM employees PricewaterhouseCoopers people 21st-century Danish lawyers People from Hørsholm Municipality Members of the Folketing 2011–2015 Members of the Folketing 2015–2019 Members of the Folketing 2019–2022 Leaders of Venstre (Denmark) Members of the Folketing 2022–2026 {{Denmark-politician-stub