Naja Kristensen

Naja Kristensen (née Petersen; born 1968) is a Greenlandic politician (Atassut).

Early life and education Kristensen was born in Ilulissat in 1968. She was trained as a social worker and worked with children and young people in what was then the Aasiaat community. She has three children with her husband Knud Erik Kristensen. In October 2007 she came to Inatsisartut for three weeks as a deputy of Augusta Salling. On 4 November 2008, she returned to parliament and three days later, she was appointed as Minister for Health and Environment to succeed Arĸalo Abelsen in the Enoksen V Cabinet, In 2013, she did not take part in the general election, but was re-elected to the local council in the same year. In the 2014 general election, she received only 32 votes. In the 2017 local elections, she received the only Atassut mandate in the new municipality of Qeqertalik, as well as four years later in the 2021 local elections.