# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sofie-carsten-nielsen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:32:48.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sofie-carsten-nielsen"
name: "Sofie Carsten Nielsen"
slug: "sofie-carsten-nielsen"
description: "Sofie Carsten Nielsen is a Danish politician, who was formerly the leader of the Danish Social Liberal Party from October 2020 to November 2022. In the 2000s, Nielsen began her political career with the European Parliament as a consultant before working for the Ministry of Gender Equality as a deputy minister. After being elected to the Folketing at the 2011 Danish general election for the Greater Copenhagen constituency, Nielsen became the Minister for Higher Education and Science in 2014. Nielsen remained in her minister position until she was replaced by Esben Lunde Larsen in 2015."
tagline: "Former Minister for Higher Education and Science of Denmark"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sofie_Carsten_Nielsen%2C_EU_event_med_Europabev%C3%A6gelsen%2C_2011-09-08_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1975-05-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.94186533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "sofiecn"
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    handle:    "sofiecarstennielsen"
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    handle:    "sofiecarstennielsen"
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    handle:    "sofiecarstennielsen"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sofiecarstennielsen.dk/"
sources:
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    title: "Sofie Carsten Nielsen"
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    title: "سوفى كارستين نيلسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sofie Carsten Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sofie Carsten Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sofie Carsten Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofie_Carsten_Nielsen"
    title: "Sofie Carsten Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sofie Carsten Nielsen"
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    title: "Sofie Carsten Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofie_Carsten_Nielsen"
    title: "Sofie Carsten Nielsen"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofie_Carsten_Nielsen"
    title: "Sofie Carsten Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofie_Carsten_Nielsen"
    title: "Sofie Carsten Nielsen"
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    title: "Sofie Carsten Nielsen"
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    title: "Карстен Нильсен, Софи"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump