Maliina Abelsen
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Maliina Abelsen | |
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Minister for Finance Government of Greenland | |
Assumed office June 2009 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 28 November 1976 Nuuk, Greenland |
Political party | Inuit Ataqatigiit |
Residence(s) | Nuuk, Greenland |
Website | "Government of Greenland". |
Maliina Abelsen is the General Manager for Arctic Winter Games 2016 and a former Greenlandic politician and MP for the party Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA), holding the position of the Minister for Finance in the Government of Greenland (Greenlandic: Naalakkersuisut), in office from March 2011.[1] Between June 2009 and March 2011, Abelsen held the position of the Minister for Social Affairs in the Government of Greenland.
Early life and education
Abelsen was born in 1976 in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, and resides there with two children and a husband.
Abelsen holds a Master of Policy and Applied Social Science (Macquarie University, Sydney), Cand.Scient.Soc. (University of Copenhagen, Sociologisk Institut).[citation needed] She was previously been employed at the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHCR - Geneva), the Department of Foreign Affairs in Nuuk, the Center for Documentation on Youth and Children (MIPI - MIO). Abelsen is a board member of United Nations Indigenous Peoples Partnership Programme.
Duties
Abelsens' areas of responsibility as Minister for Finance is Budget, Burden and Task allocation, Structure policy, Tax policy, Block subsidy and Statistics Greenland [2]
References
- ^ "Ministry of Finance". Archived from the original on 2013-01-29. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
- ^ "Statistics Greenland".
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- Finance ministers of Greenland
- Greenlandic socialists
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