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Thor Pedersen

Politician

Thor Pedersen 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	Thor Pedersen · Тор Педерсен · ثور بيدرسن · トア・ペダーセン · 托尔·彼泽森				[sources]
Alias	Педерсен, Тор · Тор Педерсен · トア・ペダーセン				[sources]
Birth date	1945-06-14				[sources]
Place of birth	Gentofte				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Denmark				[sources]
Country	Denmark				[sources]
Citizenship	Denmark				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Thor				[sources]
Last name	Pedersen				[sources]
Political association	Venstre				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1371946				[sources]
Position	Finance Minister of Denmark (2001-2007) · Folketing (member, 2005-2007) · Folketing (member, 2007-2011) · Speaker of the Folketing (2007-2011) · mayor of Helsinge Municipality (1978-1985) · 2 more...				[sources]
Education	Frederiksborg Gymnasium og HF (-1964) · University of Copenhagen				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Danish politician

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

Relationships

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

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 Categories384,808

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,232

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata355,697

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,160

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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