Jógvan á Lakjuni is a Faroese politician, composer and teacher.
Education
He was educated school teacher in 1977, and worked as a school teacher in Fuglafjørður from 1977-1989. This period he also studied at the University of the Faroe Islands and since 1989 he has worked as a high school teacher at Føroya Handilsskúli in Kambsdalur.
Career
He was speaker of the Faroese parliament, the Løgting from 2011-2015. He worked as a fisherman in the period 1969–1972. He was minister of culture in the first cabinet of Jóannes Eidesgaard.
He was the speaker of the Faroese parliament, the Løgting from 2011-2015.
He was president of the West Nordic Council from 2002 to 2003. He was reelected to the parliament on 1 September 2015.
2008–2012 vice chairman of the Culture Committee
2000–2002 chairman of the Culture Committee
He has been active musician since he was young. He plays the piano and has been the leader of local choirs of his hometown Fuglafjørður.
Membership
Jógvan á Lakjuni was elected member of the Faroese Løgting in 1998, but before that he had been substitute member several times in the period 1989 to 1996. Member of Committees of the Løgting
2002–2004 member of the Foreign Affairs Committee
1998–2002 member of the Næringskomiteen
1998–2000 member of the Culture Committee
In the 1980s he was one of the members of the choir called Brothers He has composed melodies for psalms and other religious and traditional Faroese songs id est (that is) to poems from the Faroese poet Hans Andrias Djurhuus, he also composed a new melody for the psalm Gakk tú tryggur, which is a popular psalm in the Faroes.