Lars Emil Johansen

Who is Lars Emil Johansen?

Lars Emil Johansen was the second Prime Minister of Greenland who served from 1991 to 1997.

Johansen was chairman of the political party Siumut between 1987 and 1997, seated in the Landsting from its creation in 1979. Prior to the creation of the Landsting, he represented Greenland in the Parliament of Denmark from 1973, a position he regained in 2001 and still holds.

He was born in Illorsuit, a small settlement near Uummannaq in the Qaasuitsup municipality.

In 1970, Johansen finished his education as a teacher, and the following year he was elected for the Greenland country council, the most powerful local authority in Greenland prior to the creation of the Landsting.

He has been appointed a Commander of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog and the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit, as well as two types of the Nersornaat, the silver Nersornaat and the golden Nersornaat.

Order of Dannebrog, Knight Commander of the Norwegian Star.