Aaja Chemnitz Larsen is a Greenlandic politician and a Member of Parliament at the Folketing for the Inuit Ataqatigiit, representing one of the two seats for Greenland.
Education
Aaja Chemnitz Larsen studied Master of Science (Master of Science ) in Business Economics and Auditing at the University of Greenland and has a Executive management degree from European Institute of Business Administration (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires).
Career
In the period from 2012-2015 she was Greenland"s children spokesman for MIO – National Advocacy for Childrens Rights in Greenland. In the period 2009-2012 has she was the director of the Welfare Department in Municipality of Sermersooq and been head of the social department in the years 2007-2009. Right Until 2009 she was employed as an Associate Expert of the United Nations in New York in the Division of Social and Economic Affairs, and here working with indigenous peoples" rights.
Membership
She is the first elected politician from Greenland in the Folketinget, to become a Member of International Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Aaja has since the election to Inatsisartut (Greenlandic parliament) in November 2014 been a member of Inatsisartut which she took a leave from due to the work at the Folketing.