Ellen Trane Nørby | |
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._Arrivals_Ellen_Trane_Noerby_(35909039651)_cropped.jpg) Ellen Trane Nørby | |
| Minister of Health | |
| In office 28 November 2016 – 27 June 2019 | |
| Minister for Children,Education andGender Equality | |
| In office 28 June 2015 – 28 November 2016 | |
| Member of theFolketing | |
| Assumed office 8 February 2005 | |
| Constituency | South Jutland |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1980-02-01)1 February 1980 (age 45) Herning, Denmark |
| Political party | Venstre |
Ellen Trane Nørby (born 1 February 1980 inHerning) is a Danish politician, who is a member of theFolketing for theVenstre political party. From 28 November 2016 to 27 June 2019, she was Denmark'sMinister of Health.[1]
Ellen Trane Nørby was born inHerning, a midsized manufacturing and administrative town in the centre ofJutland. She grew up inNørre Nissum, a large village on the edge ofLemvig along country's west coast. Jørgen Andreas Nørby, her father, is a biologist and secondary school teacher who served as municipal mayor of Lemvig between 1998 and 2006.[2] Her mother is an architect. Nørby attended school in Nørre Nissum between 1985 and 1995, then moving on to theGymnasium (Upper School) at Lemwig. She enrolled atCopenhagen University where from 1998 she studiedArt History, with a side module between 1999 and 2001 on political sciences. She concluded her university level studies in 2005 with a "Master of Arts" degree.[3]
While still a student she had already worked at theChristiansborg Palace, home toDenmark'sgovernment andnational parliament.[4]
She joined theVenstre party and its youth organisation in 1995. In 1999, she became vice-president of theEuropean Liberal Youth organisation comprising, for the most part, the youth wings of members of theAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. Between 2002 and 2004 she was theassociation president. In 2004, she stood forelection to the European parliament.[1] Her 24,380 votes were not sufficient to win her a seat in the assembly, however.[3]
She stood forelection to the national parliament in 2005.Venstre had been in power as the largest party in a coalition government since2001, and although their support slipped in 2005 they remained the largest party. Nørby won 5,073 votes which was enough to secure her a seat inparliament. She became her party's spokesperson for culture and the arts. Support forVenstre slipped again in2007, but they were still, by a small margin, the largest party. Nørby's own support increased to 12,804 votes in herSouth Jutland electoral district. In this parliamentary session her focus was on social issues and gender equality. Her vote level increased again in2011, this time to 18,059 votes. This was the highest number of votes received by any of theVenstre candidates in 2011.[5] Her 12,012 votes in the2015 election were again comfortably more than were won by most (if, this time, not quite all) of her fellow Venstre candidates.[6] Between 2006 and her first ministerial appointment, in 2015, Ellen Trane Nørby was her party's spokesperson on "new media" questions.
On 28 June 2015, she was appointedMinister for Children, Education and Equality in theLars Løkke Rasmussen minority government formed that year. On 28 November 2016, when that government was replaced by theLars Løkke Rasmussen coalition government, she was transferred to theMinistry of Health.[1]
In Autumn 2012, as an opposition spokesperson, Ellen Trane Nørby submitted 696 parliamentary questions toUffe Elbæk, theMinister for Culture and The Arts. This performance earned Nørby the soubriquet "Spørge-Ellen" ("Questions Ellen") from the mass-market tabloid newspaperBT.[7]
A more negative press encounter came about in January 2013 when theBT journalistLars Fogt reported the allegation that student supporters working for Nørby had made more than thirty changes to herDanish Wikipedia entry since March 2011.[8] She reacted promptly and fiercely, asserting that she was being subjected to a "journalistic campaign of personal hatred" from the tabloidBT, which was then being picked up and reported without critical evaluation by other press outlets.[9]
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| Preceded by | Minister of Health 2016–2019 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister for Children 2015–2016 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of Education 2015–2016 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister for Gender Equality 2015–2016 | Succeeded by |
