Mads Lundby Hansen (21 September 1969 – 5 June 2023) was a Danish economist,

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debater and chief economist at the think tank

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Education

Mads Lundby Hansen graduated from Bornholms Amtsgymnasium in 1989. During his high gymnasium years, together with later commentator and debater Jarl Cordua, he was active in

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. Lundby Hansen was educated as a

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from the

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in 1996.

Career

Lundby Hansen then got work as an economist in the

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's international office and in 1998 took a similar position in the

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's tax policy office. From 2001 to 2005, he was chief economist in Venstre at

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during

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's prime ministership. From 2005 he switched to the newly founded right wing-liberal ( Danish: ''borgerlig-liberale'') think tank

, where he was a carrying force in his function as chief economist and deputy director until his death in 2023. He taught at the economics department at the University of Copenhagen for a number of years in the 2000s. Lundby Hansen was considered among

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's most influential and prominent economists and was widely recognised for his ability to communicate economic issues to the public and shape the agenda.Cepos-cheføkonom Mads Lundby Hansen er død
5. juni 2023. Hentet 5. juni 2023 His topissue was to abolish the Danish top tax (), which he argued for eagerly in various contexts. In the years 2012 until 2014, he was according to ''

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'' the most quoted economist in the Danish media, as well as the 2021 most quoted

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by the Danish press. From 2017 to 2023 he was a member of Det Økonomiske Råd (The Economic Council). In 2020, Lundby Hansen was nominated by the newspaper ''

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'' for the Fonsmark Award awarded to

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personalities.

Death

On 5 June 2023, Mads Lundby Hansen died due to

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following long-time illness at the age of 53 at

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. He left behind a

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and two children. Lundby Hansen was interred at Sorgenfri Church on 10 June.

References

External links

Personal resume on cepos.dk
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lundby Hansen, Mads 1969 births 2023 deaths 21st-century Danish economists Liberalism in Denmark Economic liberalism