MINISTER FOR CULTURE PER STIG MØLLER

RESUME

Per Stig Møller
Born August 27th 1942 in Frederiksberg, son of former minister Poul Møller and journalist Lis Møller.


Parliamentary Career
Minister for Culture from February 23rd 2010
Minister for Foreign Affairs from November 27th 2001 - February 23rd 2010
Minister for the Environment, December 18th 1990 - January 25th 1993.
Member of the Folketing for the Conservative Party Copenhagen greater constituency, November 13th 2007, in Western Copenhagen constituency, May 10th 1988 - November 13th 2007, in Copenhagen County constituency, January 10th 1984 - May 10th 1988.
The Conservative Party's in Frederiksberg Slot nomination district from 1987, and in Gentofte nomination district, 1983-1987.
Chairman of the Conservative Party, 1997-1998. Political spokesman, 1997-1998.


Education and Profession
Dr.Phil. 1973.
Graduate research fellowship, 1971-1973.
Research fellow, the University of Copenhagen (KU), 1968-1971. MA, KU, 1967.
Matriculated in modern languages from Frederiksberg Upper Secondary School, 1961.

DR, cultural and social affairs department, 1973-1984.
Programme controller, 1979-1984.
Associate professor at the Sorbonne, Paris, 1974-1976.
Employed by the newspapers 'Berlingske Aftenavis' and 'Berlingske Tidende', 1969-1972.
Literary editor with the newspaper 'B.T.', 1967-1969.


Affiliations
National chairman of the Popular Educational Association (FOF), 1983-1989.
Chairman of the Conservative Club from 1995.
Vicechairman of the Radio Council, 1985-1986, chairman, 1986-1987.
Member of the Council of Europe, 1987-1990, 1994-1996, and 1998-2001.


Publication and Awards
Author of such works as »Malte-Bruns litterære kritik og dens plads i transformationsprocessen mellem klassicisme
og romantik i fransk litteraturhistorie 1800-1826« (Malte-Brun's Literary Criticism and its place in the Transformation Process between Classicism and Romanticism in French Literary History, 1800-1826), 1973, »Erotismen« (Erotism), 1973, »København-Paris t/r« (Copenhagen-Paris, Return), 1973, »På sporet af det forsvundne menneske« (On the Trail of the Vanished Person), 1976, »Livet i gøgereden« (Life in the Cuckoo's Nest), 1978, »Fra tid til anden« (From Time to Time), 1979, »Tro, håb og fællesskab« (Faith, Hope and Fellowship), 1980, »Midt i redeligheden« (At the Heart of the Mess), 1981, »Orwells håb og frygt« (Orwell's Hope and Fear), 1983, »Nat uden daggry« (Night without Dawn), 1985, »Stemmer fra Øst« (Voices from the East) 1987, »Historien om Estland, Letland og Litauen« (The Story of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), 1990, »Kurs mod katastrofer?« (Course towards Catastrophes?), 1993, »Miljøproblemer« (Environmental Problems), 1995, »Den naturlige orden« (The Natural Order), 1996, »Spor« (Traces), 1997, »Magt
og Afmagt« (Power and Powerlessness), 1999, »Munk« (Munk). 2001, and »Mere Munk« (More Munk), 2003.

Has received a number of Danish and foreign awards, medals and decorations, including the Georg Brandes Award, the Rosenkjær Award, the Raoul Wallenberg Medal, and the Robert Schuman Medal. Commander of the Order of Dannebrog, 1st class, F.A.L.3. ('des Arts et des Lettres', Knight), Grosskreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland, Commandeur de l’Ordre National du Bénin, Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Lion, the Nersornaat Medal of
Merit in gold, the Order of Stara Planina, First Class, and Grand Cross in the Order of the Polar Star. Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross (Brazil) and the Lithuanian Grand Cross of the Order for Merits.