[4] He has served as a member of the Inatsisartut, the parliament of Greenland, since 2015, and as chairman of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party since 2018.

He finished his gymnasium education in Qaqortoq before he started studying cultural and social history at the University of Greenland in 2007.

[3] He did not finish his studies, dropping out in 2013 to take over a family-owned fodder company run by his father.

[11] In response to the ongoing controversy over the spiral case, Egede accused Denmark of committing the crime of genocide in Greenland.

[12] Egede is the chairman of Inuit Ataqatigiit, which is a democratic socialist political party in Greenland.