The Permanent Secretary (Danish : Departementschef) is the most senior civil servant of a Danish Government ministry, charged with running the department on a day-to-day basis.
Government ministry | Permanent Secretary | Since | Ref. |
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Prime Minister's Office | Barbara Bertelsen | 13 January 2020 | [1] |
Ministry of Defence | Pernille Langeberg (act.) | 11 August 2023 | [2] [3] |
Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs | Michael Dithmer | 28 November 2016 | [4] [5] |
Ministry of Employment | Søren Kryhlmand | 4 March 2020 | [6] [7] |
Ministry of Finance | Peter Stensgaard Mørch | 21 August 2019 | [8] [9] |
Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries | Morten Niels Jakobsen | 18 January 2021 | [10] |
Ministry of Justice | Johan Kristian Legarth | 1 March 2020 | [11] |
Ministry of the Interior and Housing | Sophus Garfiel | 21 January 2021 | [12] [13] |
Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities | Lars Frelle-Petersen | 1 January 2021 | [14] |
Ministry of Culture | Dorte Nøhr Andersen | 18 May 2020 | [15] [16] |
Ministry of Environment | Annemarie Lauritsen | 1 April 2023 | [17] |
Ministry of Taxation | Jens Brøchner | 29 Maj 2012 | [18] |
Ministry of Social Affairs and the Elderly | Jens Strunge Bonde | 21 January 2021 | [13] [19] |
Ministry of Transport | Jacob Heinsen | 21 January 2021 | [13] |
Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Lars Gert Lose | 1 January 2019 | [20] |
Ministry of Refugee and Immigration | Christian Hesthaven | 1 November 2018 | [21] [22] |
Ministry of Higher Education and Research | Hanne Meldgaard | 1 January 2020 | [23] |
Ministry of Health | Svend Særkjær | 11 January 2021 | [24] [13] [25] |
Ministry for Children and Education | Birgitte Hansen | 5 December 2019 | [26] |
Ministry for Ecclesiastical Affairs | Christian Dons Christensen | 1 February 2017 | [27] |
The Danish Ministry of Defence is a ministry in the Danish government. It is charged with overall planning, development, and strategic guidance of the entire area of responsibility of the Minister of Defence, including the Danish Armed Forces and the emergency management sector. It is Denmark's ministry of defence and serves as the secretariat of the Danish Defence Minister.
Ivar Hansen was a Danish politician from the Liberal party Venstre.
Karen Ellemann Kloch, formerly Karen Ellemann Karabian, is a Danish politician, who serves as the current Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers. She was previously a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. She is a former minister, having held the positions of Minister of Fisheries, Equality and Nordic Cooperation, Minister of the Environment and Minister of the Interior and Social Affairs.
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The Alternative is a green political party in Denmark. The party was publicly launched on 27 November 2013 by former Minister of Culture Uffe Elbæk and Josephine Fock; Elbæk had been a parliamentarian for the Social Liberal Party. Elbæk was the leader of the party until February 2020, where he stepped down and was succeeded by Fock. Currently the party is led by Franciska Rosenkilde. It collaborates with DiEM25 at the European level.
Stop Wasting Food is a Danish consumer organization that works for the reduction of food waste in society. It was established in 2008 by Selina Juul, who acts as the movement's day-to-day leader and spokesperson. The organization is run by volunteers and does not count on a permanent membership.
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The Moderates is a liberal political party in Denmark founded by former Prime Minister and current Minister of Foreign Affairs Lars Løkke Rasmussen. He announced the name in a foundational speech on 5 June 2021. At the same time, he said that his main scenario was that the party would be formed after the 2021 Danish local elections. The name was, according to Rasmussen, inspired by the fictitious Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg's party Moderaterne in the hit political TV drama Borgen as well as the Swedish Moderate Coalition Party, the then–second largest party in the Swedish Riksdag. The Moderates' political position is referred to as centre to centre-right.
The 2020 Danish mink cull, commonly known as the Mink Case or the Mink Scandal, was the government-mandated slaughter of all roughly 17 million mink that were being raised on farms for their fur in Denmark. The cull started in September in response to the detection of Cluster 5, an outbreak of a novel variant of SARS-CoV-2, in the mink during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark. The cluster led to concerns that the potential of spillover to humans could reduce the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. The cull was made nation-wide on 4 November 2020; however, two days later the government announced that the extension of the cull orders had been given without legal authority, causing a political scandal.
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Barbara Beatrice Bertelsen is a Danish jurist and senior civil servant. She is the current Permanent Secretary of State at the Prime Minister's Office of Denmark, and as such the head and principal civil servant in the central administration of Denmark. She is the first woman to hold this position and thus the highest-ranking female civil servant in Danish history.