Britta Thomsen

Britta Thomsen (born 23 January 1954 in Aalborg) is a Danish politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Social Democrats, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
She is also a member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, a substitute for the Committee on Development, and vice-chair of the delegation for relations with South Africa. She recently backed up the Manifesto of the Spinelli Group.

• Scholarship, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala (1979)
• Studies in Portuguese language and culture, University of Lisbon (1979–1980)
• Studies in Portuguese and Spanish, Aarhus University (1980–1983)
• MA (History), Aarhus University
• Teacher and organiser of adult education (1983–1989)
• Consultant (various contracts)
• Consultant, HK (Union of Commercial and Clerical Employees in Denmark), responsible for international projects and surveys in the tourism and service industries (1994–2000)
• Director and owner of Facilitate (consultancy), working with labour market issues at European level (2001–2004)
• With the Danish Social Democrats
• Member of the party programme committee (2000)
• Publications: articles about Portugal in various Danish magazines