Aqqaluk Lynge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Aqqaluk Lynge

president of Inuit Circumpolar Council, member of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1947

Place of Birth: Aasiaat, Qeqertalik

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Aqqaluk Lynge (born 1947) was the President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (formerly the Inuit Circumpolar Conference) from 1995 to 2002.
He is a former member of the Inatsisartut and one of the founders of the Greenlandic political party Inuit Ataqatigiit.
An indigenous Kalaallit, in 2004 Lynge became a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which is an advisory body to the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council.
He was a visiting fellow at the Dartmouth College Institute of Arctic Studies in 2008 and received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the college in 2012.
Lynge has also become known as an author of poetry and essays.