NAME: Auken, Margrete.

DENMARK

POLITICAL GROUP: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA).

PARTY: Socialistisk Folkeparti.

CONSTITUENCY: Denmark.

DATE OF LATEST ELECTION: 2009.

Committees: Member of the Committee on Development; Member of the Committee on Petitions; Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety; Member of the Delegation for Relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council; Substitute, Committee on Transport and Tourism; Substitute, Delegation for Relations with Israel.

Political Career: Member of the Executive Committee of the Danish Society for Nature Conservation since 2004 and of the General Assembly since 1982; Member of the Folketing's Bureau 1994-2004; Member of the Government's Road Safety Commission 1994-2004 and 1985-1990; Member of the Folketing 1979-2004 and 1973-1977; Member of the Ministry of Justice's Animal Experimentation Board 1991-1995; Member of the Nordic Council 1982-1990 and Substitute 1982-1986; Member of the Nordic Council’s Presidium 1986-1989; Chairman of Left-Wing Socialist Group in the Nordic Council 1984-1987.

Profession: Parish priest at Frederiksberg Church since 1972.

Education: Copenhagen University, Degree in Theology 1971.

Born: 6 January 1945, Århus.