Britta Thomsen

Britta Thomsen (born 23 January 1954 in Aalborg) is a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Social Democrats, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

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She is also a member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, a substitute for the Committee on Development, and vice-chair of the delegation for relations with South Africa. She recently backed up the Manifesto of the Spinelli Group.

Career

Scholarship, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala (1979)

Studies in Portuguese language and culture, University of Lisbon (1979–1980)

Studies in Portuguese and Spanish, Aarhus University (1980–1983)

MA (History), Aarhus University

Teacher and organiser of adult education (1983–1989)

Consultant (various contracts)

Consultant, HK (Union of Commercial and Clerical Employees in Denmark), responsible for international projects and surveys in the tourism and service industries (1994–2000)

Director and owner of Facilitate (consultancy), working with labour market issues at European level (2001–2004)

With the Danish Social Democrats

Member of the party programme committee (2000)

Publications: articles about Portugal in various Danish magazines