Sigurd Agersnap

Sigurd Agersnap Gustavson (born 2 March 1993) is a Danish politician and member of the Folketing, the national legislature. A member of the Green Left party, he has represented Greater Copenhagen since November 2022.

Agersnap was born on 2 March 1993 in Copenhagen. He is son of biologist Kim Gustavson and ethnogeographer Hanne Agersnap, a Member of the Folketing for Greater Copenhagen (2007-2011). He was educated at Fuglsanggårdsskolen and Virum Gymnasium in Virum. He has a Master of Science degree in political science from the University of Copenhagen (2020). He was a student assistant for the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) (2016-2018) and an intern at Oxfam IBIS (2019-2020). He was a consultant for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation from 2020-2022. He was on the board of wastewater utility Biofos from 2018 to 2022. He was a member of the municipal council in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality from 2018 to 2022 and was first deputy mayor from 2021 in a Conservative People's Party led administration.