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A culture minister (sometimes minister of culture, minister for culture, or secretary of culture) is a Cabinet position in some governments responsible for protecting the national heritage of a country and promoting cultural expression.

Culture ministries[link]

• Minister for the Arts (Australia)
• Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture (Bahamas)
• Ministry of Culture (Brazil)
• Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts (Cambodia)
• Minister of Canadian Heritage
  • Ministry of Tourism and Culture (Ontario) (result of merger of Ministry of Culture (Ontario))
• Ministry of Culture (China)
• Ministry of Culture (Croatia)
• Ministry of Culture (Czech Republic)
• Minister of Culture (Denmark)
• Ministry of Culture (Egypt)
• Ministry of Culture (Estonia)
• Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Ethiopia)
• Minister of Culture (France)
• Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Greece)
• Ministry of Culture and Communication (Haiti)
• Secretary for Home Affairs (Hong Kong)
• Minister of Education of Hungary
• Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Indonesia)
• Ministry of Culture (India)
• Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (Iran)
• Minister for Cultural Assets and Activities (Italy)
• Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan)
• Ministry of Culture (Lebanon)
• Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (Netherlands)
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage (New Zealand)
• Minister of Culture (North Korea)
• Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs (Norway)
• Minister of Culture and National Heritage (Poland)
• Ministry of Culture (Portugal)
• Ministry of Culture (Republic of China)
• Ministry of Culture and National Patrimony (Romania)
• Minister of Culture (Russia)
• Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (Singapore)
• Ministry of Culture (Slovenia)
• Minister of Arts and Culture (South Africa)
• Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (South Korea)
• Ministry of Culture (Spain)
• Ministry of Culture (Sweden)
• Ministry of Culture (Syria)
• Ministry of Culture (Thailand)
• Ministry of Culture (Turkey)
• Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (United Kingdom)
  • Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure (Northern Ireland)
  • Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs (Scotland)
  • Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage (Wales)
• Ministry of Cultures, Sports and Tourism (Vietnam)

See also[link]

• Minister (government)

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The Honourable Ed Vaizey MP
Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 May 2010
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Margaret Hodge (Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism)
Shadow Minister for Culture
In office November 2006 – May 2010
Leader	David Cameron
Preceded by	Mark Field (culture) Malcolm Moss (culture, media and sport)
Succeeded by	Gloria De Piero
Member of Parliament for Wantage
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 May 2005
Preceded by	Robert V. Jackson
Majority	13,547 (24.1%)
Personal details
Born	(1968-06-05) 5 June 1968 (age 44)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	Merton College, Oxford
Website	www.vaizey.com

Edward Henry Butler Vaizey (born 5 June 1968) is the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries in the UK, a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State post with responsibilities in both the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).

He was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the constituency of Wantage in the 2005 general election, and was re-elected in the 2010 general election.

He is a trained barrister, and regular columnist and commentator.

Early life[link]

Vaizey is the son of the late Lord Vaizey, a life peer, and Marina Vaizey, a well-known art historian. As the son of a peer he has the title "The Honourable Edward Vaizey". Vaizey spent part of his childhood growing up in Berkshire. He was educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, where he rose to the rank of Librarian (Vice President) of the Oxford Union and took a BA in History, achieving a 2.1. After leaving Oxford, Vaizey worked for the Conservative politicians Kenneth Clarke and Michael Howard as an adviser on employment and education issues. He trained and practised as a barrister for several years, specialising in family law and child care cases.

Politics[link]

Vaizey first stood for Parliament at the 1997 general election, when he was the candidate for Bristol East. In the 2001 UK general election, he acted as an election aide to Iain Duncan Smith. He stood in the 2002 local elections in the safe Labour ward of Harrow Road in the City of Westminster.

He is seen^[who?] as a moderniser in the Conservative Party, contributing in both policy and image terms. He was a speechwriter for Michael Howard, leader of the Conservative Party until December 2005, and the editor of the Blue Books series, which looked at new approaches to Conservative policy in areas such as health and transport. He was one of Michael Howard's inner circle of advisers and a member of a group of young Conservatives sometimes disparagingly referred to as the "Notting Hill set", along with David Cameron — elected leader of the party in December 2005 — George Osborne, Michael Gove, Nicholas Boles and Rachel Whetstone. Like Gove and Boles, he is a signatory of the Henry Jackson Society. He is also a Vice-Chairman of Conservative Friends of Poland.^[1]

Member of Parliament[link]

In 2002, Vaizey was selected by Wantage Conservative Association as its candidate for the 2005 election, to succeed the sitting MP, Robert Jackson, who subsequently defected to Labour. Vaizey won a two-thirds majority on the final ballot of members. He was elected as Member of Parliament in that election, with 22,394 votes. His majority was 8,017 over the Liberal Democrats. This represented 43% of the voters and a 1.9% swing from the Liberal Democrats to the Conservatives.

When first elected to Parliament, Vaizey was a member of the Standing Committee on the Consumer Credit Bill. Before going on the front bench he was a member of the Modernisation and Environmental Audit Select Committees and was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative's Globalisation and Global Poverty Policy Group.

In November 2006, he was appointed to the Conservative front bench as a Shadow Minister for Culture, looking after arts and broadcasting policy.

In the 2010 election he received a vote of 29,284, which was 52% of the votes cast, gaining him an increased majority. While many senior members of the Conservative Party were in negotiations with the Lib Dems in the days after 6 May 2010, Mr. Vaizey appeared regularly on telelvision to be questioned as a representative of the views of the Conservative Parliamentary Party at that time.

Expense claims[link]

On 18 May 2009 the Daily Telegraph reported that receipts submitted by Vaizey show that he ordered a £467 sofa, a £544 chair, a £280.50 low table and a £671 table in February 2007 from Oka, an upmarket furniture shop. The Commons fees office initially rejected the claim as the receipt said that the furniture was due to be delivered to Vaizey's home address in west London, but was later paid when Vaizey told the fees office that the furniture was intended for his second home in his Wantage constituency. Vaizey told the Daily Telegraph that we (he and his wife) "had it delivered to London because we would be in to collect it and we were driving down with it."^[2]

When these claims became public, Mr Vaizey said that he had repaid the cost of the Oka furniture and the antique chair which he had bought with taxpayers' money: "I accept that the £300 armchair was an antique item and therefore that claim should not have been made. I also accept that the Oka items could be deemed as being of higher quality than necessary. I have paid back both these claims. I have not claimed for any other furniture bought for my constituency home at any time before or since."^[2] Vaizey has described himself to be "relatively affluent". ^[3]

In November 2011, it was reported that Mr Vaizey had submitted expenses claims of 8p for a 350 yard car journey and 16p for a 700 yard journey.^[4]

Media career[link]

He has been a regular commentator on the Conservative Party in the press. He has written regular comment pieces for The Guardian since 1998, and contributes articles to the Sunday Times news review. He has also written for The Times and the Daily Telegraph and written editorials for the Evening Standard. Vaizey is also a regular broadcaster, appearing on Fi Glover's and Edwina Currie's shows on BBC Radio Five Live, as a regular panellist on five’s The Wright Stuff with Matthew Wright, BBC Radio 4's Despatch Box and Westminster Hour, and occasionally as a presenter of People and Politics on the BBC World Service.

On 24 September 2010 Ed Vaizey was named Number 10 in The 2010 Guardian Film Power 100 list. Bradshaw, Peter; Kermode, Mark (24 September 2010). "The 2010 Guardian Film Power 100". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/24/film-power-100-full-list. 

Bibliography[link]

• A Blue Tomorrow - New Visions for Modern Conservatives (2001) (ed. with Michael Gove and Nicholas Boles). ISBN 1-84275-027-5
• Blue Book on Health: Conservative Visions for Health Policy (2002) ISBN 1-84275-043-7
• Blue Book on Transport: Conservative Visions for Transport Policy (ed with Michael McManus) (2002) ISBN 1-84275-044-5
• Blue Book on Education (ed with Michael McManus) (2003)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ed Vaizey MP official constituency website
• Profile at the Conservative Party
• Wantage and Didcot Conservatives
• Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
• Current session contributions in Parliament at Hansard
• Electoral history and profile at The Guardian
• Voting record at PublicWhip.org
• Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou.com
• Profile at Westminster Parliamentary Record
• Profile at BBC News Democracy Live
• Articles authored at Journalisted
• Works by or about Ed Vaizey in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Video game industry interview with Ed Vaizey, Bruceongames, 27 July 2009
• Art interview with Ed Vaizey, Artforums.co.uk, 15 December 2009

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This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in the Icelandic Wikipedia. (January 2009) Don't speak Icelandic? Click here to read a machine-translated version of the Icelandic article. Click [show] on the right to review important translation instructions before translating. Google's machine translation is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. After translating, {{Translated|is|Katrín Jakobsdóttir}} must be added to the talk page to ensure copyright compliance. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

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Katrín Jakobsdóttir
Minister of Education, Science and Culture
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 February 2009
Prime Minister	Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
Preceded by	Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir
Personal details
Born	(1976-02-01) 1 February 1976 (age 36) Reykjavík, Iceland
Political party	Left-Green Movement
Spouse(s)	Gunnar Örn Sigvaldason
Children	Three sons (b. 2005, 2007, 2011)
Alma mater	University of Iceland

Katrín Jakobsdóttir (pronounced [ˈkʰaːtrin ˈjaːkʰɔpstouhtɪr]) (born 1 February 1976) is an Icelandic politician and a member of the Althing (Iceland's parliament) for the Reykjavík North constituency since 2007. She is vice-chairman of the Left-Green Movement and Iceland's Minister of Education, Science and Culture.^[1]

Katrín graduated from the University of Iceland in 1999 with a degree in Icelandic and French. She received her M.A. from the same university in 2004 for a dissertation on the work of popular Icelandic crime writer Arnaldur Indriðason.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Personal blog

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Paul Mashatile (born 21 October 1961) is the current Minister of Arts and Culture in the Cabinet of South Africa.

He is the former Premier of Gauteng province in South Africa and a member of the African National Congress.^[1] Mashatile replaced Mbhazima Shilowa on 7 October 2008, after Shilowa resigned in protest against the decision of the African National Congress to remove President Thabo Mbeki from office.^[2] Mashatile was replaced as Premier by Nomvula Mokonyane on 6 May 2009.^[3]

As a student, Mashatile was an activist in the struggle against apartheid as a member of the Congress of South African Students, and was the co-founder and first president of the Alexandra Youth Congress.^[4] He was detained without trial from 1985-1989, and participated in a nation-wide protest by engaging in an 18-day hunger strike.^[4] When the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party were unbanned in 1990, he helped re-establish them and continued to organize on their behalfs.^[4] He has held various administrative positions in Guateng province, including serving in its legislature as Leader of the House.^[4]

References[link]

1. ^ "The Premier's Profile". Gauteng Provincial Government. http://www.gautengonline.gov.za/premier/mashatile_profile.htm. Retrieved 11 December 2008. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "Mashatile elected Gauteng premier". Independent Online. 2008-10-07. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20081007103145309C403713. Retrieved 11 December 2008. 
3. ^ "Mokonyane declared premier". News24. 6 May 2009. http://www.news24.com/News24/Elections/News/0,,2-2478-2479_2511884,00.html. Retrieved 6 May 2009. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d} "Paul Shipokosa Mashatile". South African History Online. http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/paul-shipokosa-mashatile. Retrieved 3 November 2011. 

External links[link]

• Official profile
• Paul Shipokosa Mashatile at Who's Who Southern Africa

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Heather Klimchuk is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Edmonton-Glenora as a Progressive Conservative. She is currently the Minister of Culture and Community Services.

Klimchuk was elected to her first term as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Edmonton-Glenora on March 3, 2008. On October 12, 2011, she was appointed Minister of Culture and Community Services.

Klimchuk´s public service experience prior to serving as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta includes working for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a researcher and working as a writer for both Premier Lougheed and Premier Getty. Klimchuk also assisted with the initiation of the Alberta Seniors´ information phone line.

Klimchuk holds a bachelor of arts (special) from the University of Alberta in political science.

Klimchuk is also active in her community and has served in the following capacities:

• Planning and development for the Glenora Community League
• Glenora School Council chair and volunteer coordinator
• Reading mentor at Glenora School
• Director of St. Basil´s School of Ukrainian Dance
• Communications director for Kupalo Ukrainian Dance School
• Volunteer coordinator for the Bell Walk for Kids

Klimchuk and her husband, Wade, have two children: Kyrsten and Keifer.^[2]

Klimchuk is currently running in the 2012 provincial election as an incumbent PC candidate for Edmonton-Glenora.

References[link]

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