Marianne Thyrring
Marianne Thyrring | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Danish |
| Alma mater | Aarhus University |
| Organizations | |
| Awards | Order of the Dannebrog |
Marianne Vendel Thyrring is a Danish policy maker and political scientist. She has been Director of the Danish Meteorological Institute and Department Head at the Ministry of Environment of Denmark.
Life and career
[edit]Thyrring graduated from Aarhus University in 1982 with a Cand.scient.pol. degree.[1] From 1984 to 1993, she worked in the Danish Ministry of Taxation.[2] She then worked for a year as an attaché at the Representation of Denmark to the European Union.[2]
In 1995, Thyrring became a Finance Manager at the Ministry of the Environment.[2] From 1999 to 2003, she was Deputy Chief of Staff in the Cabinet of Environment Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard.[2] In 2003 she became head of the environmental policy area at the Danish Ministry of the Environment.[2] Then from 2007 until 2012, she was Head of Department in the Ministry of the Environment.[3]
In 2012, she left the Ministry of the Environment when she was appointed by the Ministry of the Interior of Denmark to conduct a study of the state of municipal-level democracy in Denmark.[4] In 2013, she became Director of the Danish Meteorological Institute.[2] At the Danish Meteorological Institute, she was involved in making the organization more public-facing, and making use of the large stores of weather-related data that it had.[5]
Thyrring was awarded the Knight's Cross of the 1st degree of the Order of the Dannebrog in 2012.[6]
Selected awards
[edit]- Order of the Dannebrog (2012)
References
[edit]- ^ "Marianne Thyrring". Altinget. December 17, 2019. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f "Marianne Thyrring" (in Danish). Ledelseskommissionen. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
- ^ Mølgaard, Christian Juhl (January 31, 2013). "Studsgaard ny departementschef i Miljøministeriet". Altinget (in Danish). Retrieved 6 November 2020.
- ^ Jerking, Anders (December 18, 2012). "Thyrring søgte ikke selv væk". Altinget (in Danish). Retrieved 6 November 2020.
- ^ "Data-Driven – A Way Through the Storm". World Meteorological Organization. 2019. Archived from the original on December 18, 2023. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
- ^ Duus, Søren Duran (January 17, 2012). "Asii og Hermann er riddere af Dannebrog". Sermitsiaq (in Danish). Retrieved 6 November 2020.