Franciska Rosenkilde

Franciska Rosenkilde (born 19 March 1976) is a Danish geographer and politician who has been the leader of The Alternative since February 2021, replacing Josephine Fock.

Education and civil career Rosenkilde has a professional bachelor's degree in health and nutrition from Metropol University College, which she studied from 2006 to 2010. In 2012, she began a master's degree in geography from the University of Copenhagen, which she completed in 2015.

Prior to her political career, she worked as a chef and as a mediator of diet and lifestyle.

Political career Rosenkilde became a member of The Alternative in 2014 after a political debate in the party at Bremen Teater.

In 2017, she was elected to the Copenhagen City Council in the local elections. Here she sat as a member of the Citizens' Representation and The Alternative's group chairperson at Copenhagen City Hall until October 2018.