Kuupik Kleist

Kuupik Vandersee Kleist
Kleist in 2008
4th Prime Minister of Greenland
In office 12 June 2009 – 5 April 2013
Monarch	Margrethe II
Preceded by	Hans Enoksen
Succeeded by	Aleqa Hammond
Chairman of the OCT for Greenland
In office 23 January 2012 – 25 September 2012
Deputy	Jens B. Frederiksen
Leader of the Inuit Ataqatigiit
In office 10 June 2007 – 31 March 2014
Deputy	Aqqaluaq B. Egede
Preceded by	Josef Motzfeldt
Succeeded by	Sara Olsvig
Member of the Greenlandic Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 February 2002
Member of the Danish Parliament
In office 20 November 2001 – 13 November 2007
Member of the Greenlandic Parliament
In office 1995–1996
Minister of Public Works and Transport
In office 1991–1995
Prime Minister	Lars Emil Johansen
Personal details
Born	Jakob Edvard Kuupik Kleist (1958-03-31) 31 March 1958 (age 66) Qullissat, County of Greenland, Denmark
Citizenship	Kingdom of Denmark
Nationality	Greenlandic
Political party	Inuit Ataqatigiit
Spouse	Aviaaja Vandersee ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	5
Alma mater	University of Roskilde
Website	ia.gl/kuupik-kleist

Jakob Edvard Kuupik Kleist (born 31 March 1958) is a Greenlandic politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Greenland between 2009 and 2013. A member of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party, he was the first Prime Minister not affiliated with Siumut.

Since 2018, he has served as the first chairman of the Arctic Indigenous Film Fund.^[1]