Rigmor Dam (born 18 December 1971) is a Faroese

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking ...

and

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, she has also been working as a journalist for the Faroese paper '' Sosialurin'' before she was elected to the Faroese parliament, the Løgting. She is the current Minister of Education, Research and Culture of the Faroe Islands.

Political career

Dam was elected member of the Faroese parliament for Social Democratic Party (Javnaðarflokkurin) in 2011. At the 2015 elections she was re-elected. On 15 September 2015 she was elected Minister of Culture in the Cabinet of Aksel V. Johannesen.

Member of standing committees of the Løgting 2011-15

*Vice chairman for the Welfare Committee (''Trivnaðarnevndin'') *Member of the Committee of Culture affairs (''Mentanarnevndin'') *Vice member of the Committee of Justice (''Rættarnevndin'')

Family

Rigmor Dam is the daughter of Durita og Bergur P. Dam, her grandfather on her father's side, was former prime minister

Peter Mohr Dam Peter Mohr Dam (11 August 1898 – 8 November 1968) was a Faroe Islands politician who was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Javnaðarflokkurin party in 1926. Born on 11 August 1898, in Skopun, Faroe Islands, Dam became a teacher i ...

, former prime minister

Atli Dam Atli Pætursson Dam (12 September 1932 – 7 February 2005) was a Faroese politician who served as Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands on three occasions, most recently from 1991 to 1993. To this date, he is the longest-serving Prime Minister in ...

was her uncle and the politician Helena Dam á Neystabø is her cousin. Rigmor Dam is married to Arnbjørn Ó. Dalsgarð, a librarian, writer and one of two editors of the Faroese magazine Vencil.bfl.fo - Arnbjørn Ó Dalsgarð
/ref> They have three children: Bergur, Sára Maria and Rói.

References

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