Jens Kramer Mikkelsen
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Jens Kramer Mikkelsen | |
|---|---|
| Lord Mayor of Copenhagen | |
| In office 1 December 1989 – 24 October 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Egon Weidekamp |
| Succeeded by | Lars Engberg |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 December 1951 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Party | Social Democrats |
Jens Kramer Mikkelsen (born 16 December 1951) was the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen for the Social Democratic Party from 1989 to 2004[1] and he is the longest-serving mayor in the City of Copenhagen. In 2004, Kramer became the CEO of the Ørestad Development Corporation (Ørestadsselskabet I/S)[2] and the company merged with Copenhagen Harbor in 2007 where Kramer was appointed CEO of CPH City & Port[3] where he served until 2018.[4] Currently, Kramer is Director of Urban Development at Nordic Real Estate Partners (NREP)[5] and he holds a number of board positions in various companies and NGOs.
Jens Kramer Mikkelsen was born in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen in 1951. He graduated as a primary school teacher from Seminariet på Emdrupborg in 1976. He then worked as a Danish and Math teacher at Grundtvigsskolen in Copenhagen until he became Lord Mayor of Copenhagen in 1989.