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Sofie Carsten Nielsen

Politician

Sofie Carsten Nielsen 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	Sofie Carsten Nielsen · Софи Карстен Нильсен · سوفى كارستين نيلسين · 索菲·卡斯滕·尼尔森				[sources]
Birth date	1975-05-24				[sources]
Place of birth	Birkerød				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	Denmark				[sources]
Country	Denmark				[sources]
Citizenship	Denmark				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
E-Mail	sofie.carsten.nielsen@ft.dk				[sources]
First name	Sofie · Sofie Carsten				[sources]
Last name	Nielsen				[sources]
Political association	Danish Social Liberal Party				[sources]
Website	www.sofiecarstennielsen.dk · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q12336294				[sources]
Position	Education and Research Minister (2014-2015) · Folketing (member, 2011-2015) · Folketing (member, 2015-) · member of the Folketing · member of the Folketing (-2023)				[sources]
Education	College of Europe · University of Copenhagen · cand.scient.pol.				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

former Minister for Higher Education and Science of Denmark

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Folketing	2011-09-15	2015-06-19
member of the Folketing	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,022

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,647

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata335,233

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions540,381

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-7fec4d63-60a1-4402-93f0-15d188456805 · dk-pep-sofie-carsten-nielsen

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