Henning Christophersen

Henning Christophersen (born 8 November 1939, Copenhagen) is a Danish politician, a former vice-president of the European Commission (1985–1995), former leader of the Danish liberal party Venstre (1978–1984) and former member of the European Convention.^[1]

He also was Deputy Prime minister and Finance Minister of Denmark (1982–1984) and Foreign Minister of Denmark (1978–1979).

Since December 1998 until 1 January 2007 he was the Chairman of the Energy Charter Conference.

He is chairmain and member of a number of supervisory Boards of Directors and partner of Kreab, Brussels.

Political offices
Preceded by Anker Jørgensen	Foreign Minister of Denmark 30 August 1978 – 26 October 1979	Succeeded by Kjeld Olesen
Preceded by Knud Heinesen	Finance Minister of Denmark 10 September 1982 – 23 July 1984	Succeeded by Palle Simonsen
Preceded by ...	Vice-President of the European Commission 1985–1995	Succeeded by Leon Brittan
Preceded by ...	European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs 1985–1995	Succeeded by ...
Party political offices
Preceded by Poul Hartling	Leader of Venstre 1977–1984	Succeeded by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

References

Tom Matz (2004), Venstre ved du hvor du har ForlagsKompagniet : Nørhaven Book.

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