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Allegiance
  
Denmark

Name
  
Tim Jorgensen

Other work
  
Advisor to Terma A/S

Rank
  
Admiral

Service/branch
  
Royal Danish Navy


Tim Sloth Jorgensen

Born
  
21 October 1951 (age 72) Randers (
1951-10-21
)

Commands held
  
Chief of Defence (Denmark)

Awards
  
Commander of the Order of Dannebrog

Admiral Tim Sloth Jørgensen (born 21 October 1951 in Randers) is a senior officer in the Royal Danish Navy. He is notable for being appointed Chief of Denmark's Defence staff.

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Jørgensen conducted a tour of military sites in Greenland and Nunavut, Canada, in August 2009. Jørgensen met with General Walter Natynczyk, Chief of Canada's Defence Staff, in Iqaluit, during Canada's annual Arctic exercise, Nanook 2009. Jørgensen and Natynczyk traveled together to Nuuk, Greenland and Thule, Greenland. The pair met with Kuupik Kleist, the chair of Greenland's Landsstyret, its national legislature, in Nuuk.

Jørgensen resigned as chief of staff on 4 October 2009 as a result of the being involved in the controversy about a fake Arabic translation of the book entitled Jæger – i krig med eliten, written by a former member of the special forces, which the Danish Army Command tried to suppress.

In 2012 he became an advisor tp Terma A/S.

References

Tim Sloth Jørgensen Wikipedia