Sigurd Agersnap


Sigurd Agersnap Gustavson is a Danish politician and member of the Folketing, the national legislature. A member of the Green Left party, he has represented Greater Copenhagen since November 2022.
Agersnap was born on 2 March 1993 in Copenhagen. He is son of biologist Kim Gustavson and ethnogeographer Hanne Agersnap, a Member of the Folketing for Greater Copenhagen. He was educated at Fuglsanggårdsskolen and Virum Gymnasium in Virum. He has a Master of Science degree in political science from the University of Copenhagen. He was a student assistant for the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions and an intern at Oxfam IBIS. He was a consultant for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation from 2020 to 2022. He was on the board of wastewater utility Biofos from 2018 to 2022. He was a member of the municipal council in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality from 2018 to 2022 and was first deputy mayor from 2021 in a Conservative People's Party led administration.