Peter Lauritzen (born 8 December 1959 in
Ã…rhus
Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Ã…rhus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality, Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and app ...
) is a Danish civil servant.
He was the fourth
High Commissioner of
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...
, and held the post from 1 April 2002 to 30 March 2005.
Rigsombudmanden i Grønland
From 1 January 2007, he became director of Roskilde Universitetscenter, taking over from Lars Kirdan. He has an MA in political science and MA in comparative studies, and was formerly ministerial secretary for Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, and research assistant and lecturer at Københavns Universitet.
References
Danish civil servants
1959 births
People from Aarhus
Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen
Living people
High commissioners of Greenland
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