Henrik Dam Kristensen


Henrik Dam Kristensen is a Danish politician and the current speaker of the Danish parliament. He has been a member of the Danish parliament for the Social Democrats from 1990–2004 and again from 2007, during which he served as Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, Minister for Food, Minister for Social Affairs, Minister for Transport and Minister for Employment. He served as President of the Nordic Council in 2011 and 2016.
From 1978 Kristensen worked as a postman until he became an MP in 1990.
From 2004–2006 Kristensen served as a member of the European Parliament and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries, the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and the Delegation for Relations with the Countries of South-East Europe.
On 3 October 2011 Kristensen was appointed to the post of Minister for Transport in the Cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt, and left office on 9 August 2013. On 10 October 2014 he again entered the cabinet, when he was appointed the position of Minister for Employment.
On 21 June 2019 Kristensen was appointed speaker of the Danish parliament.

Political career