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Henning Christophersen (8 November 1939 – 31 December 2016) was a Danish politician, a former vice-president of the European Commission (1985–1995), former leader of the Danish liberal party Venstre (1978–1984) and former member of the European Convention.
Christopherson was born in Copenhagen. He also was Deputy Prime minister and Finance Minister of Denmark (1982–1984) and Foreign Minister of Denmark (1978–1979).
In 1992, as EU commissioner, Christophersen together with 10 Baltic Ministers of Foreign Affairs founded the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the EuroFaculty.
Since December 1998 until 1 January 2007 he was the Chairman of the Energy Charter Conference.
He was chairman and member of a number of supervisory Boards of Directors and partner of Kreab, Brussels.
Christophersen died on 31 December 2016 in Brussels at the age of 77 after a short illness.