Curriculum Vitae - Minister for Health, Mrs. Astrid Krag, Denmark

Astrid Krag, born November 17th 1982 at Sct. Maria Hospital, Vejle, daughter of copywriter Ole Jakob Krag Kristensen and upper secondary school teacher Åse Fogh Pedersen. Mother of two, and married to Andreas Seebach.

Member period

• Member of Parliament for the Socialist People's Party in Zealand greater constituency from November 13th 2007
• Temporary Member of Parliament for the Socialist People’s Party in Vejle County constituency from October 24th 2006 to October 30th 2006 (substitute for Villy Søvndahl)
• Candidate for the Socialist People's Party in Roskilde nomination district from 2006
• Candidate for the Socialist People's Party in Vejle nomination district from 2001 to 2006

Parliamentary career

• Minister for Health and Prevention from October 3rd 2011
• Vice Chairman of the parliamentary group of The Socialist People's Party from 2010 to 2011
• Former spokeswoman for integration, asylum and naturalization and for the elderly and welfare e.g.

Education and jobs

• Political Science studies and University of Copenhagen, 2003 to 2005
• Matriculated, Tørring County Upper Secondary School, from 1998 to 2001
• Employed as a home carer, Sundparken, amager, 2007
  Student assistant, Social and Health Care College in Copenhagen, from 2003 to 2005
• Assistant educator, Frederiksberg Hospital's kinder garden, from 2001 to 2002

Affiliations

• Chairwoman of the pupils' council at Tørring County Upper Secondary School 1999 to 2001
• Chairwoman of the Young Socialist People's Party 2005-2007.
• Member of the Socialist People's Party's integration committee from 2006 to 2011
• Member of the management committee and the executive committee of the Socialist People's Party in Copenhagen from 2007      

Publication

• Editor responsible under the press law of the magazine »Dijalog« (published by Balkans), 2001 to 2003
• Author of a chapter of »Manifest«, 2007
• Editor of the magazine »Virak«, 2007

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