Lotte Bundsgaard


Lotte Bundsgaard is a Danish schoolteacher, journalist and politician.
She was born in Nivå to Jørgen Bundsgaard and Hanne Lund Bundsgaard. She married Søren Thorsager in 1999. She was elected member of Folketinget for the Social Democrats from 1998 to 2007. She was Minister for Towns and Homes and Minister for Equal Rights in Poul Nyrup Rasmussen's fourth cabinet from December 2000 to November 2001.
Bundsgaard was educated schoolteacher at Odense Seminarium and worked as schoolteacher before she was elected to Folketinget. After her political career, she graduated as from the University of Southern Denmark, and has worked as journalist.