Britta THOMSEN

ITRECommittee on Industry, Research and Energy
FEMMCommittee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
DMERDelegation for relations with the Mercosur countries

SEDESubcommittee on Security and Defence
DCASDelegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia

• Scholarship, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala (1979). Studies in Portuguese language and culture, University of Lisbon (1979-1980); studies in Portuguese and Spanish, Aarhus University (1980-1983). MA (History), Aarhus University. Teacher and organiser of adult education (1983-1989). Consultant (various contracts): working with European projects within the area of education and human resource development (1989-1994). Consultant, HK (Union of Commercial and Clerical Employees in Denmark), responsible for international projects and surveys in the tourism and service industries (1994-2000). Director and owner of Facilitate (consultancy), working with labour market issues at European level (2001-2004).
• With the Danish Social Democrats: member of the executive committee (2000); member of the party programme committee (2000).
• Publications: articles about Portugal in various Danish magazines.