Anfinn Kallsberg | |
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Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands | |
In office 15 May 1998 – 3 February 2004 | |
Preceded by | Edmund Joensen |
Succeeded by | Jóannes Eidesgaard |
Personal details | |
Born | Klaksvík, Faroe Islands, Kingdom of Denmark | 19 November 1947
Died | 20 February 2024 | (aged 76)
Political party | People's Party |
Anfinn Kallsberg (19 November 1947 – 20 February 2024) was a Faroese politician who was prime minister and leader of the People's Party (Faroese: Fólkaflokkurin). First elected to the Faroese parliament in 1980 and consecutively thereafter, Kallsberg served as Fisheries Minister from 1983 to 1985 and for 5 months in Jógvan Sundstein's first coalition government in 1989, and as Economics and Finance Minister from 1996 to 1998 in a coalition led by Edmund Joensen (Union Party).