Merete Riisager Andersen (born 1 March 1976) is a Danish politician who represents the Liberal Alliance. From 28 November 2016 to 27 June 2019, she was

Education Minister of Denmark Education Minister of Denmark ( da, Undervisningsminister, ), or Minister of Education in Denmark, is a Danish minister office currently held by Mattias Tesfaye in the Frederiksen II Cabinet. The office was created in 1916 when the post Kult ...

, replacing Ellen Trane Nørby. Born in

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, Riisager graduated from the University of Copenhagen with a master's degree in pedagogy in 2003. She has worked in the field of

learning Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, value (personal and cultural), values, attitudes, and preferences. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals, and some machine learning, machines ...

in a number of companies, including

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, before she was elected to the Folketing (the Danish parliament) in 2011 for the Liberal Alliance. Between 2006 and 2010, Riisager was a candidate to the Folketing for the Danish Social Liberal Party in Odense.

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* 1976 births Living people Education ministers of Denmark Liberal Alliance (Denmark) politicians Politicians from Aarhus University of Copenhagen alumni Women government ministers of Denmark Women members of the Folketing Members of the Folketing 2011–2015 21st-century Danish women politicians Members of the Folketing 2015–2019 20th-century Danish women {{Denmark-politician-stub