# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helle-thorning-schmidt
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:08:18.190Z

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name: "Helle Thorning-Schmidt"
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description: "Helle Thorning-Schmidt is a Danish retired politician who served as the prime minister of Denmark from 2011 to 2015 and leader of the Social Democrats from 2005 to 2015. She is the first woman to have held each post. Following defeat in 2015, she announced that she would step down as both prime minister and party leader. Ending her political career in April 2016, she was the chief executive of the NGO Save the Children until June 2019."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump