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Martin Lidegaard

Diplomat · PEP · Politician · Close Associate

Martin Lidegaard 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	Martin Lidegaard · Мартін Лідегор · מרטין לידגארד · مارتن ليدغارد · マーティン・リデゴー · 2 more...				[sources]
Alias	Martinus Lidegaard · Мартін Лідегор · مارتن ليدغارد · マーティン・リデゴー				[sources]
Weak alias	マルティン・リデゴー				[sources]
Birth date	1966-12-12				[sources]
Place of birth	Copenhagen				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	Denmark				[sources]
Citizenship	Denmark				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
Email	martin.lidegaard@ft.dk				[sources]
First name	Martin				[sources]
Last name	Lidegaard				[sources]
Political association	Danish Social Liberal Party				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1272556				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Folketing (member, 2005-2007) · Folketing (member, 2015-) · Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (2014-2015) · member of the Folketing				[sources]
Education	Helsingør Gymnasium · Roskilde University				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-04	Last processed	2026-04-04	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Danish politician, leader of the Social Liberal Party

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-11-06

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Mads Lidegaard Close Associate	father	-	-
Øjvind Lidegaard Close Associate	sibling	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Folketing	2017-12-29	-

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Bo Lidegaard PEP	sibling	-	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,554

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 PEPs1,954

Official PEP list for Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland

Denmark · Finanstilsynet

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,227

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories340,442

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata327,982

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,278

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: dk-pep-martin-lidegaard · evpo-25b724c2-7ec1-48f7-aae8-caeefd5c2ee8

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