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Kuupik Vandersee Kleist
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Kleist in 2008
4th Prime Minister of Greenland
In office
12 June 2009 – 5 April 2013
Monarch Margrethe II
Preceded by Hans Enoksen
Succeeded by Aleqa Hammond
Chairman of the OCT
for Greenland
In office
23 January 2012 – 25 September 2012
Deputy Jens B. Frederiksen
Leader of the Inuit Ataqatigiit
In office
10 June 2007 – 31 March 2014
Deputy Aqqaluaq B. Egede
Preceded by Josef Motzfeldt
Succeeded by Sara Olsvig
Member of the Greenlandic Parliament
Assumed office
8 February 2002
Member of the Danish Parliament
In office
20 November 2001 – 13 November 2007
Member of the Greenlandic Parliament
In office
1995–1996
Minister of Public Works and Transport
In office
1991–1995
Prime Minister Lars Emil Johansen
Personal details
Born
Jakob Edvard Kuupik Kleist

(1958-03-31) 31 March 1958 (age 66)
Qullissat, County of Greenland, Denmark
Citizenship Kingdom of Denmark
Nationality Greenlandic
Political party Inuit Ataqatigiit
Spouse
Aviaaja Vandersee
(m. 2012)
Children 5
Alma mater University of Roskilde
Website ia.gl/kuupik-kleist

Jakob Edvard Kuupik Kleist (born 31 March 1958) is a Greenlandic politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Greenland between 2009 and 2013. A member of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party, he was the first Prime Minister not affiliated with Siumut.

Since 2018, he has served as the first chairman of the Arctic Indigenous Film Fund.

Early life and career

Kleist was born on 31 March 1958 to a Danish telegraphist and a Greenlandic mother in Qullissat, and was raised by his aunt and uncle. He attended primary school in Qullissat from 1966 until 1972 when the mining town was abandoned and then he attended lower secondary school in Sisimiut until 1975. When he was 17, he was sent to Denmark, alone and with no prior knowledge of Danish. He attended the Birkerød State School in Denmark from 1975 to 1978. Kleist graduated from Roskilde University in 1983 with a master's degree in social work (socionom). He taught journalism in Nuuk from 1988 to 1991.

  • Greenlandic independence

See also

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