Per Stig Møller Explained

Office:Minister of Foreign Affairs
Term Start:27 November 2001
Term End:23 February 2010
Primeminister:Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Predecessor:Mogens Lykketoft
Successor:Lene Espersen
Office2:Minister of Culture
Term Start2:23 February 2010
Term End2:3 October 2011
Primeminister2:Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Predecessor2:Carina Christensen
Successor2:Uffe Elbæk
Office3:Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs
Term Start3:8 March 2011
Term End3:3 October 2011
Primeminister3:Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Predecessor3:Birthe Rønn Hornbech
Successor3:Manu Sareen
Office4:Minister of the Environment
Term Start4:18 December 1990
Term End4:25 January 1993
Primeminister4:Poul Schlüter
Predecessor4:Lone Dybkjær
Successor4:Svend Auken
Office5:Leader of the Conservative People’s Party
Term Start5:1997
Term End5:1998
Predecessor5:Hans Engell
Successor5:Pia Christmas-Møller
Birth Date:27 August 1942
Birth Place:Frederiksberg, Denmark
Party:Conservative People’s

Per Stig Møller (in Danish pronounced as /ˈpʰɛɐ̯ ˈstiˀ ˈmøˀlɐ/, informal: Per Stig; born 27 August 1942 in Frederiksberg) is a Danish politician. He was a member of the Folketing (Danish national parliament) for the Conservative People's Party from 1984 until 2015, and was Minister for the Environment from 18 December 1990 to 24 January 1993 as part of the Cabinet of Poul Schlüter IV and Foreign Minister from 27 November 2001 to 23 February 2010 as part of the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I, II and III, and the first Cabinet of Lars Løkke Rasmussen. From 23 February 2010 to 3 October 2011 he was Minister for Culture.

Per Stig Møller is the son of the former Finance Minister Poul Møller and journalist Lis Møller, who were both Members of Parliament.

Education

Per Stig Møller completed his master's degree in comparative literature at the University of Copenhagen in 1967, and was awarded a dr.phil. (higher doctorate) in 1973 for his thesis Malte-Bruns litterære kritik og dens plads i transformationsprocessen mellem klassicisme og romantik i fransk litteraturhistorie 1800-1826 (Eng.: Literary criticism of Malte-Brun and its position in the transformation process between classicism and romanticism in French history of literature 1800-1826).

Non-political career

Political career

Bibliography

Mod en ny civilisation (commentary) (1973)