Aleqa Hammond

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Aleqa Hammond
Hammond in 2013
5th Prime Minister of Greenland
In office 5 April 2013 – 30 September 2014
Monarch	Margrethe II
Deputy	Doris Jakobsen
Preceded by	Kuupik Kleist
Succeeded by	Kim Kielsen
Leader of Siumut
In office 2 June 2009 – 17 October 2014
Deputy	Hans Enoksen
Preceded by	Hans Enoksen
Succeeded by	Kim Kielsen
Member of the Danish Parliament for Greenland
In office 18 June 2015 – 5 June 2019
Preceded by	Doris Jakobsen
Personal details
Born	(1965-09-23) 23 September 1965 (age 59) Narsaq, County of Greenland, Denmark
Citizenship	Kingdom of Denmark
Nationality	Greenlandic
Political party	Nunatta Qitornai (since 2018)
Other political affiliations	Independent (2016–2018) Siumut (until 2016)
Education	Nunavut Arctic College
Alma mater	University of Greenland (dropped out)
Website	Official Facebook

Aleqa Hammond (born 23 September 1965) is a Greenlandic politician and former member of the Danish Folketing (parliament). Formerly the leader of the Siumut party, she became Greenland's first female prime minister after her party emerged as the largest parliamentary faction in the 2013 elections.^[1] In 2014 she stepped down as prime minister and leader of Siumut, following a case of misuse of public funds. She was expelled from Siumut on 23 August 2016 after yet another case of misuse of public funds and became an independent.^[2] On 31 March 2018 she announced that she would be running in the 2018 Greenlandic parliamentary election for the Siumut breakaway Nunatta Qitornai.^[3]