Lone Dybkjær (23 May 1940 – 20 July 2020) was a Danish politician. She served three non-consecutive terms as a member of the Folketing. Between 1988 and 1990, she was Minister for the Environment of Denmark during the second Poul Schlüter cabinet. Between 1994 and 2004, she was a member of the European Parliament.
Political career She was a member of the Danish Social Liberal Party. She was a member of the European Parliament for the party from 1994 to 2004 and also a member of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget), where she served as minister of Environment during the Cabinet of Poul Schlüter. She was a member of the eminent international Council of Patrons of the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Personal life She graduated from Rungsted Statsskole in 1958 and took a Master of Engineering in chemistry at the Technical University of Denmark in 1964. In 1994, she married then-Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen. Dybkjær died on 20 July 2020 in Copenhagen from breast cancer, aged 80.
References
External links Autobiography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)


