Lone Dybkjær

Lone Dybkjær
Member of the Folketing
Constituency	Vestre Storkreds
In office 1971–1977
In office 1979–1994
In office 2005–2011
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1994–2004
Spouse of the Prime Minister
In office 1995 – 27 November 2001
Prime Minister	Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Preceded by	Lisbeth Schlüter
Succeeded by	Anne-Mette Rasmussen
Minister for the Environment of Denmark
In office 3 June 1988 – 18 December 1990
Prime Minister	Poul Schlüter
Preceded by	Christian Christensen
Succeeded by	Per Stig Møller
Personal details
Born	(1940-05-23)23 May 1940 Copenhagen, Denmark
Died	20 July 2020(2020-07-20) (aged 80) Copenhagen, Denmark
Political party	Radikale Venstre Social Democrats
Spouse	Poul Nyrup Rasmussen ​ ​ (m. 1994)​
Alma mater	Technical University of Denmark

Lone Dybkjær (23 May 1940 – 20 July 2020) was a Danish politician. She served three non-consecutive terms as a member of the Folketing.

Between 1988 and 1990, she was Minister for the Environment of Denmark during the second Poul Schlüter cabinet. Between 1994 and 2004, she was a member of the European Parliament.

Political career

She was a member of the Radikale Venstre, a Danish party in the middle of the political spectrum. She was a member of the European Parliament for the party from 1994 to 2004 and also a member of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget), where she served as minister of Environment during the Cabinet of Poul Schlüter.

She was a member of the eminent international Council of Patrons of the Asian University for Women (AUえーゆーW) in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The university, which is the product of east–west foundational partnerships (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Open Society Foundation, IKEA Foundation, etc.) and regional cooperation, serves extraordinarily talented women from 15 countries across Asia and the Middle East.

Personal life

She graduated from Rungsted Statsskole in 1958 and took a Master of Engineering in chemistry at the Technical University of Denmark in 1964.

In 1994, she married then-Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.

Dybkjær died on 20 July 2020 in Copenhagen from breast cancer, aged 80.

External links

• Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)