Franciska Rosenkilde | |
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Member of the Folketing | |
Assumed office 1 November 2022 | |
Leader of the Alternative | |
Assumed office 7 February 2021 | |
Preceded by | Josephine Fock |
Personal details | |
Born | Copenhagen,Denmark | 19 March 1976
Political party | The Alternative (2014–present) |
Residence | Vesterbro,Copenhagen |
Education | Metropol University College (BA) University of Copenhagen (MA) |
Occupation | Geographer and politician |
Website | Official website |
Franciska Rosenkilde (born 19 March 1976) is a Danish geographer and politician who has been the leader of The Alternative since February 2021,replacing Josephine Fock. [1] Alongside five other members of The Alternative,Rosenkilde was elected to the Folketing in November 2022. [2]
Rosenkilde has a professional bachelor's degree in health and nutrition from Metropol University College,which she studied from 2006 to 2010. [3] In 2012,she began a master's degree in geography from the University of Copenhagen,which she completed in 2015. [3] A study she completed with her thesis on food systems and climate change. [4]
Prior to her political career,she worked as a chef and as a mediator of diet and lifestyle. [4] [5]
Rosenkilde became a member of The Alternative in 2014 after a political debate in the party at Bremen Teater. [4] [6]
In 2017,she was elected to the Copenhagen City Council in the local elections. Here she sat as a member of the Citizens' Representation and The Alternative's group chairperson at Copenhagen City Hall until October 2018. [3]
In October 2018,after a vote in The Alternative in Copenhagen,Rosenkilde was elected to the post of Mayor of Culture and Leisure,after the party's former mayor,Niko Grünfeld,had resigned. [5] She received 97 votes out of 188. [5]
At an extraordinary national meeting,on 7 February 2021,she was elected by party members to become political leader of the Alternative. Four candidates ran,and Rosenkilde received 260 votes out of a total of 471. [1]
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