Jeppe Kofod

Jeppe Kofod
Minister for Foreign Affairs
In office
27 June 2019 – 15 December 2022
Prime MinisterMette Frederiksen
Preceded byAnders Samuelsen
Succeeded byLars Løkke Rasmussen
Vice President of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
Assumed office
14 December 2016
PresidentSergei Stanishev
Preceded byPosition established
Member of the European Parliament
for Denmark
In office
1 July 2014 – 27 June 2019
Preceded byDan Jørgensen
Succeeded byMarianne Vind
Member of the Folketing
for Bornholm
In office
11 March 1998 – 30 June 2014
Preceded byEva Fatum
Succeeded byLea Wermelin
Personal details
Born
Jeppe Sebastian Kofod

(1974-03-14) 14 March 1974 (age 50)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Political partySocial Democrats
Other political
affiliations
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
EducationRoskilde University
Harvard University
WebsiteOfficial website

Jeppe Sebastian Kofod (born 14 March 1974) is a former Danish politician of the Social Democratic Party who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark between 27 June 2019 to 15 December 2022.

Kofod previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 to 2019. Within the Party of European Socialists group, he led the Social Democrats from Denmark. Kofod was a member of the Folketing (the Danish Parliament) from the Social Democrats from 1998 until 2014 and again briefly as a substitute member for two months in 2023.