Jens Kramer Mikkelsen (born 16 December 1951) was the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen for the

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from 1989 to 2004 and he is the longest-serving mayor in the

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. In 2004, Kramer became the CEO of the ''Ørestad Development Corporation'' (Ørestadsselskabet I/S) and the company merged with ''Copenhagen Harbor'' in 2007 where Kramer was appointed CEO of CPH City & Port where he served until 2018. Currently, Kramer is Director of Urban Development at ''Nordic Real Estate Partners'' (NREP) and he holds a number of board positions in various companies and NGOs.

Early life and education

Jens Kramer Mikkelsen was born in the

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district of Copenhagen in 1951. He graduated as a primary school teacher from Seminariet på Emdrupborg in 1976. He then worked as a Danish and Math teacher at Grundtvigsskolen in Copenhagen until he became Lord Mayor of Copenhagen in 1989.

Political career

Kramer Mikkelsen was a member of the local government of

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since 1989 until his resignation as Lord Mayor. On 7 June 2004, Jens Kramer Mikkelsen announced that he would not run for the

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s in 2005, but that he would continue in office until the end of his period on 31 December 2005. However, on 27 September 2004 he announced that he would resign both from the

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and thus from office as of 15 November to become CEO of Ørestadsselskabet. His successor until the elections as Lord Mayor was

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. In the elections of 2001, Jens Kramer Mikkelsen received 27,417 personal votes.

Later career

On 24 October 2004, Jens Kramer Mikkelsen resigned as Mayor of Copenhagen to assume a position as CEO in Ørestadsselskabet. He led the merger of the company with Copenhagen Harbor in 2007 and held the position as CEO of the new company – owned by the City of Copenhagen and the Danish Government named CPH City & Port Development – until 2018. A month later, Kramer took a position at the real estate investment and development company ''Nordic Real Estate Partners'' (NREP) where he currently serves as Director of Urban Development. Kramer is Chairman of th
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Donkey Republic

References

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