Franciska Rosenkilde

Rosenkilde has a professional bachelor's degree in health and nutrition from Metropol University College, which she studied from 2006 to 2010.^[3] In 2012, she began a master's degree in geography from the University of Copenhagen, which she completed in 2015.^[3] Rosenkilde wrote her master's thesis on food systems and climate change.^[4]

Prior to her political career, she worked as a chef and as a mediator of diet and lifestyle.^[4][5]

Rosenkilde became a member of The Alternative in 2014 after a political debate in the party at Bremen Teater.^[4][6]

In 2017, she was elected to the Copenhagen City Council in the local elections. Here she sat as a member of the Citizens' Representation and The Alternative's group chairperson at Copenhagen City Hall until October 2018.^[3]

In October 2018, after a vote in The Alternative in Copenhagen, Rosenkilde was elected to the post of Mayor of Culture and Leisure, after the party's former mayor, Niko Grünfeld, had resigned.^[5] She received 97 votes out of 188.^[5]

At an extraordinary national meeting, on 7 February 2021, she was elected by party members to become political leader of the Alternative. Four candidates ran, and Rosenkilde received 260 votes out of a total of 471.^[1]