Troels Lund Poulsen

Troels Lund Poulsen (born 30 March 1976) is a Danish politician and has been Minister for Education of Denmark. Prior to that, he became Minister for the Environment following the 2007 Danish parliamentary election. He is member of the parliament for the party Venstre. From September 2006 to November 2007 Troels Lund Poulsen was the spokesman on political affairs for the party.

In late 2011, he became the center of a dispute regarding the disclosure of confidential documents in favor of discrediting the current Danish prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt and her husband Stephen Kinnock due to their tax relations.^[1] The affair happened in the 2011 Danish parliamentary election and involved the head of SKAT (The Danish tax agency) Copenhagen (Erling Andersen), the Permanent Secretary of State in the Ministry of Taxes (Peter Loft) and the spindoctor of Troels Lund Poulsen (Peter Arnfeldt).^[2]

References

CV from the homepage of the Danish Parliament

^ "Presset stiger på Troels Lund Poulsen" (in Danish). Danmarks Radio. 4 December 2011.
^ "Her er hovedpersonerne i skattesagen" (in Danish). Danish TV2. 4 December 2011.

Political offices
Preceded by Connie Hedegaard	Minister for the Environment 2007 - 2010	Succeeded by Karen Ellemann
Preceded by Kristian Jensen	Minister for Taxation of Denmark 2010 - 2011	Succeeded by Peter Christensen
Preceded by Tina Nedergaard	Minister for Education of Denmark 2011-2011	Succeeded by Christine Antorini

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[1] "Presset stiger på Troels Lund Poulsen" (in Danish). Danmarks Radio. 4 December 2011.

[2] "Her er hovedpersonerne i skattesagen" (in Danish). Danish TV2. 4 December 2011.

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