Lone Dybkjær
Lone Dybkjær, was a Danish politician. She served three non-consecutive terms as a member of the Folketing.
Between 1988 to 1990, she was Minister for the Environment of Denmark during the second Poul Schlüter cabinet. Between 1994 to 2004, she was a member of the European Parliament.Political career
She was a member of the Radikale Venstre, a Danish party in the middle of the political spectrum. She was a member of the European Parliament for the party from 1994-2004 and also a member of the Danish Parliament, where she served as minister of Environment during the Cabinet of Poul Schlüter. She was married to former Danish prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, even though he is from a left-mid-wing party, the Social Democrats.
She was a member of the eminent international Council of Patrons of the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The University, which is the product of east-west foundational partnerships and regional cooperation, serves extraordinarily talented women from 15 countries across Asia and the Middle East.She graduated from Rungsted Statsskole in 1958 and took a Master of Engineering in chemistry at the Technical University of Denmark in 1964.
In 1994, she married then-Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.
Dybkjær died on 20 July 2020 in Copenhagen from cancer, aged 80.
