politician Member of the Folketing
University of Copenhagen.
He is a lawyer by profession. He served as councillor in the Copenhagen City Council from 1994 to 2005, and has taught at the University of Copenhagen. In 2003, he was part of a group of party members who issued the "ten liberal theses," a document unsuccessfully challenging the direction the party was taking under Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
He was appointed to the Lars Løkke Rasmussen I Cabinet during a cabinet reshuffle in February 2010, becoming Minister for Development Cooperation.
He was appointed Minister for Refugees, Immigrants and Integration on 8 March 2011, thus holding double ministerial office. Pind"s term as minister ended on 4 October 2011, after the center-left coalition prevailed in the 2011 parliamentary election.
On 28 June 2015 he was appointed as Minister of Justice in the Cabinet of Lars Løkke Rasmussen World War II
Søren Pind is considered more liberal than most other members of his party.
