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Mattias Tesfaye

Politician

Mattias Tesfaye is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Mattias Tesfaye · Маттиас Тесфайе · Маттіас Тесфає · ماتياس تسفاي				[sources]
Birth date	1981-03-31				[sources]
Place of birth	Aarhus				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Denmark				[sources]
Country	Denmark				[sources]
Citizenship	Denmark				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
E-Mail	mattias.tesfaye@ft.dk				[sources]
First name	Mattias				[sources]
Last name	Tesfaye				[sources]
Political association	Communist Party of Denmark/Marxist–Leninists · Green Left · Red–Green Alliance · Social Democrats				[sources]
Website	www.tesfaye.dk · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q12326451				[sources]
Position	Folketing (member, 2015-) · Justice Minister of Denmark (2022-2022) · Minister for Children & Education · Minister for Children (Denmark) (2022-) · Minister for Refugees, Immigrants and Integration (2019-2022) · 2 more...				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-18	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Danish politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister for Children & Education	-	-
Minister of Education	2022-12-15	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,999

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,660

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland PEPs1,903

Official PEP list for Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland

Denmark · Finanstilsynet

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,623

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders11,000

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

External databases

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Wikidata335,265

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,214

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: dk-pep-mattias-tesfaye · evpo-b44283bb-c7be-43e4-bbad-2591123f66ef · us-cia-denmark-mattias-tesfaye-minister-for-children-education

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