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Vivian Motzfeldt | |
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![]() Motzfeldt in 2024 | |
Leader of Siumut | |
Assumed office 12 March 2025 | |
Prime Minister | Múte Bourup Egede |
Preceded by | Erik Jensen |
Minister of Foreign Affairs,Business and Trade | |
Assumed office 4 April 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Múte Bourup Egede |
Preceded by | Múte Bourup Egede (Foreign Affairs) |
Speaker of the Inatsisartut | |
In office 3 October 2018 –16 April 2021 | |
Prime Minister | Kim Kielsen |
Preceded by | Hans Enoksen |
Succeeded by | Hans Enoksen |
Deputy Leader of Siumut | |
In office 2020 –12 March 2025 | |
Prime Minister | Kim Kielsen |
Leader | Erik Jensen |
Naalakkersuisoq for Foreign Affairs | |
In office 2018–2020 | |
Prime Minister | Kim Kielsen |
Succeeded by | Kim Kielsen |
Minister of Education,Culture and Church | |
In office 2018–2020 | |
Prime Minister | Kim Kielsen |
Succeeded by | Ane Lone Bagger |
Personal details | |
Born | 10 June 1972 Upernaviarsuk,Kujalleq,Greenland |
Citizenship | Denmark |
Nationality | Greenlandic |
Political party | Siumut |
Children | 2 |
Residence(s) | Nuuk,Sermersooq,Greenland |
Alma mater | University of Greenland |
Vivian Motzfeldt is a Greenlandic politician who was the speaker of the Inatsisartut,the Parliament of Greenland, [1] and the chairwoman of Siumut. [2] In the fifth cabinet of Kim Kielsen,Motzfeldt was the minister of education,culture,church and foreign affairs. [3]
Motzfeldt was born on 10 June 1972. At seven years old,she moved to a boarding school in Qaqortoq. Each Christmas,she and her siblings went back to their hometown of Upernaviarsuk,an experimental site for agriculture in southern Greenland. She spent Christmas at her childhood home until she was 17,when she went to the United States on an exchange study. She returned to Greenland to study to be a teacher in Nuuk. From 1998 to 2000,she attended the University of Greenland where she studied cultural and social history of Greenland. She then had a teaching career,first in Nuuk until 2007,and then in Qaqortoq from 2010 to 2014.