Jakob Edvard Kuupik Kleist

Jakob Edvard Kuupik Kleist
  • Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs
    Government of Greenland

1983, degree in Social Studies, Roskilde University Centre, Denmark. 1985-88, Deputy Director, Department of Education; 1988-91, President, School of Journalism; 1996-99, Head, Department of Foreign Affairs; 2001-02, Head, Secretariat, Commission on Self-Government. 1991-95, Minister for Public Works and Transport; 1995-96, 2002 and 2009, Member of Parliament of Greenland; 2007, Leader of the Inuit Ataqatigiit Party; 2001-07, Member of the Danish Parliament. Since 2009, Premier.