Britta Thomsen
Britta Thomsen is a Danish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014. She is a member of the Social Democrats, which is part of the Party of European Socialists.
In parliament, Thomsen served as vice-chair of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. She was also a member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, a substitute for the Committee on Development, and vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with South Africa. She supported the Manifesto of the Spinelli Group.
Career
- Scholarship, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala
- Studies in Portuguese language and culture, University of Lisbon
- Studies in Portuguese and Spanish, Aarhus University
- MA, Aarhus University
- Teacher and organiser of adult education
- Consultant
- Consultant, HK, responsible for international projects and surveys in the tourism and service industries
- Director and owner of Facilitate, working with labour market issues at European level
- With the Danish Social Democrats
- Member of the party programme committee
- Publications: articles about Portugal in various Danish magazines