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Maliina Abelsen | |
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| Minister for Finance Government of Greenland | |
| Assumed office June 2009 | |
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| Born | 28 November 1976 Nuuk, Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark |
| Citizenship | Kingdom of Denmark |
| Nationality | Greenlandic |
| Political party | Inuit Ataqatigiit |
| Residence(s) | Nuuk, Greenland Kingdom of Denmark |
| Website | "Government of Greenland". |
Maliina Abelsen was the General Manager for Arctic Winter Games 2016 and is a former Greenlandic politician and MP for the party Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA), holding the position of the Minister for Finance in the Government of Greenland ( Greenlandic: Naalakkersuisut), in office from 2011-2013. [1] Between June 2009 and March 2011, Abelsen held the position of the Minister for Social Affairs in the Government of Greenland. Since 2020, Abelsen has been programme manager for UNICEF Denmark in Greenland. [2]
Early life and education
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Abelsen was born in 1976 in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, and resides there with two children and a husband.
Abelsen holds a Master of Policy and Applied Social Science (Macquarie University, Sydney), Cand.Scient.Soc. (University of Copenhagen, Sociologisk Institut).[ citation needed] [2] She was previously employed at the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHCR - Geneva), the Department of Foreign Affairs in Nuuk, the Center for Documentation on Youth and Children (MIPI - MIO). Abelsen is a board member of United Nations Indigenous Peoples Partnership Programme.
Duties
Abelsens' areas of responsibility as Minister for Finance is Budget, Burden and Task allocation, Structure policy, Tax policy, Block subsidy and Statistics Greenland [3]
References
- ^ "Ministry of Finance". Archived from the original on 2013-01-29. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
- ^ a b Fjeldberg, Anders (25 August 2022). "Maliina Abelsen var den første grønlænder på Sociologisk Institut". Uniavisen. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ "Statistics Greenland".
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