Vera Leth

Vera Leth
Vera Leth
2nd County Council Ombudsman for the Parliament of Greenland
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 February 1997
Prime Minister	Lars-Emil Johansen
Preceded by	Emil Abelsen
Personal details
Born	Vera Amatsiak Jensen; July 4, 1958; Qutdligssat, Greenland
Nationality	Greenlandic
Spouse(s)	Henrik Leth
Alma mater	University of Copenhagen

Vera Leth (born 4 July 1958) is a Greenlandic civil servant who has been the County Council Ombudsman for the Parliament of Greenland since 1997.

Career

Vera Amatsiak Leth (née Jensen) was born on 4 July 1958 in Qutdligssat, Greenland.[1][2] She attended the University of Copenhagen, where she earned a law degree in 1988. Leth then spent the following two and a half years working at a law firm, before working on business legislation. In 1996, Otto Steenholdt proposed Leth as the successor to Emil Abelsen as the Ombudsman of the County Council. The Council voted unanimously for Leth to undertake the position, becoming the second person to hold the post.[1] In 2001, Leth was critical of the appointment of Jens-Kristian Kleist as the priest for Greenlanders in Denmark. This was regarding the way in which the Directorate for Culture, Education, Research and Church had dealt with Kleist, regarding the lack of housing for him in Denmark.[3]

At an extraordinary meeting held on 8 April 2013, her tenure as Ombudsman was extended by the Parliament or a further four years.[4] Later that year, she investigated the hiring of Carsten Frank Hansen as head of the Ministry of Finance and Home Affairs, following the revaltion of his firing from his two previous positions in Denmark and his relationship with former Prime Minister of Greenland, Lars-Emil Johansen.[5]

gollark: It would be interesting to know exactly why the "system" is way more concerned with human-recognizable things than our laws of physics, and also why basically everyone is humanlike mentally despite entirely different evolutionary paths. Unfortunately, all the fictional things I know in this sort of setting just handwave it.

gollark: Ideally, pylon-of-civilization-hunting von Neumann machines, but those might not be practical yet.

gollark: The obvious solution to this """voting"" is to send really fast people out to gather all pylons of civilization and move them to a central base.

gollark: Yes. This is a good idea. I don't like it.

gollark: Any civilized person should aim to overthrow the system and improve this sort of thing.

References

"Valg af Landstingets Ombudsmand" (in Kalaallisut). Greenland County Council. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
"Vera Leth" (in Kalaallisut). Altinget. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
Kiil Sørensen, Leif (9 May 2001). "Kritik af grønlandske kirkemyndigheder". Kristeligt Dagblad (in Danish). Retrieved 16 November 2017.
"Vera Leth genvalgt som ombudsmand". Sermitsiaq (in Kalaallisut). 9 April 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
Højgaard Sørensen, Bent; Hyltoft, Vibe (2 October 2013). "Ombudsmand går ind i grønlandsk skandalesag". Berlingske (in Danish). Retrieved 16 November 2017.

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[council-1] "Valg af Landstingets Ombudsmand" (in Kalaallisut). Greenland County Council. Retrieved 16 November 2017.

[2] "Vera Leth" (in Kalaallisut). Altinget. Retrieved 16 November 2017.

[3] Kiil Sørensen, Leif (9 May 2001). "Kritik af grønlandske kirkemyndigheder". Kristeligt Dagblad (in Danish). Retrieved 16 November 2017.

[4] "Vera Leth genvalgt som ombudsmand". Sermitsiaq (in Kalaallisut). 9 April 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2017.

[5] Højgaard Sørensen, Bent; Hyltoft, Vibe (2 October 2013). "Ombudsmand går ind i grønlandsk skandalesag". Berlingske (in Danish). Retrieved 16 November 2017.