Hanna Jensen
Hanna Jensen is a Faroese high school teacher and a liberal - conservative politician.
Biography
After finishing high school, Hanna Jensen studied Faroese language and literature at the University of the Faroe Islands. She also took French language and literature at the University of Copenhagen, along with Jurisprudence and Pedagogy. Eventually, she finished with a Cand.mag. degree.Jensen has been teaching and working as a school counsellor at the high school in Kambsdalur, Fuglafjørður since 2005. Before that, she was teaching at The Technical college in Klaksvík. She has also been teaching Faroese literature at the Faroese Teachers School in Tórshavn. Currently, she lives in Norðragøta.
Additionally, Jensen has been the French Consul General of the Faroe Islands since 2010.
Political career
Jensen's political career started in 2007 when she was elected to the local council of Gøta Municipality, where she was a member for one year from 1 January 2008 until 31 December 2008. She continued to be a member of the new merged council of Eystur Municipality, which was a merger between Leirvík and Gøta. Since 2009, she has been a member of Eystur Municipality. She was the chairperson of the Culture and Social Committee from 2009-2012 and the chairperson of the Culture Committee since 2013.Jensen represented the People's Party until 2011, when she, together with Poul Michelsen, established the political party Progress. Since then, Jensen has been the deputy leader of Progress and was the party's vice member to the parliament from 2011 until 2015, where she took a seat in parliament on several occasions for Michelsen and Janus Rein.
Jensen was elected for the Løgting at the [2015 Faroe Islands|Faroese general election|general election in 2015].