Anne Grete Holmsgaard (born 11 August 1948) is a Danish energy expert and politician who served in the

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between 1979 and 2011 with an interruption from 1987 to 2001. She was first a member of the Left-Wing Socialist Party and then of the Socialist People’s Party.

Biography

Holmsgaard was born in

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on 11 August 1948. She graduated from a high school in 1967 and attended

Roskilde University Roskilde University (, abbreviated RUC or RU) is a Danish public university founded in 1972 and located in Trekroner in the Eastern part of Roskilde. The university awards bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and PhD degrees in a wide variet ...

, but did not completed her graduate studies. She worked at the

Danish State Railways DSB, an abbreviation of ''Danske Statsbaner'' (, ''Danish State Railways''), is the largest Danish train operating company. It's also the largest train operating company in Scandinavia. While DSB is responsible for passenger train operation on ...

between 1987 and 1995. Next she served as the director of the

Technical University of Denmark The Technical University of Denmark (), often simply referred to as DTU, is a polytechnic university and school of engineering. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's first polytechnic, and it is today ran ...

until 2002. She was first elected to the Parliament for the Left-Wing Socialist Party in October 1979 representing

Funen County Funen County () is a former county (Danish: '' amt'') in central Denmark, comprising the islands of Funen, Langeland, Tåsinge, Ærø, and approximately 90 other islands, of which only 25 are inhabited. The county was formed on 1 April 1970, com ...

. From September 1986 she began to serve as a deputy for the Socialist People’s Party. Her last parliamentary membership for the party was between 13 November 2007 and 15 September 2011. On 11 July 1988 Holmsgaard was elected in the national congress as a member of the executive committee of the party. She held other posts in the party, including foreign affairs spokesman. As of 2020 she was the chair of the Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program, a Danish

sustainable energy Energy system, Energy is sustainability, sustainable if it "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Definitions of sustainable energy usually look at its effects on the e ...

fund.

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