Marianne Thyrring

Marianne Vendel Thyrring is a Danish policy maker and political scientist. She has been Director of the Danish Meteorological Institute and Department Head at the Ministry of Environment of Denmark.

Life and career Thyrring graduated from Aarhus University in 1982 with a Cand.scient.pol. degree. From 1984 to 1993, she worked in the Danish Ministry of Taxation. She then worked for a year as an attaché at the Representation of Denmark to the European Union.

In 2012, she left the Ministry of the Environment when she was appointed by the Ministry of the Interior of Denmark to conduct a study of the state of municipal-level democracy in Denmark. In 2013, she became Director of the Danish Meteorological Institute.

Thyrring was awarded the Knight's Cross of the 1st degree of the Order of the Dannebrog in 2012.

Selected awards Order of the Dannebrog (2012)