Manu Sareen

Manu Sareen (born 16 May 1967) is the former Minister for Equality and former Church and Nordic Cooperation,[1] in the Cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt and former statsrevisor and member of the Copenhagen City Council, elected for the Danish Social Liberal Party.

Sareen was elected to the Copenhagen City Council in 2002 and became the group leader of the Danish Social Liberal Party in 2006.

At the general election 2005 he was a candidate in Vesterbro district, and go thet second-most votes in the Western constituency.

Manu Sareen was nominated for Politician of the Year in 2003, 2006 and 2007 by the National Association for Gays and Lesbians.

Sareen is the first minister of Denmark with a non-European ethnic background.