 summary
Elin
Brimheim Heinesen was born 25. June in 1958 in Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands. In 1990 she
gave birth to a daughter.
She went to Denmark to study in her mid twenties and stayed in the
country for 24 years, most of the time living and working in Copenhagen,
until she moved back to the Faroes in 2007 where she lives today.
working experience
Elin has wide-ranging experience in the fields of internet, marketing,
media and culture and has worked in communication and marketing for many
years as head of media and marketing, journalist and editor in chief in
on-line and printed media.
In 2007 she went to the Faroe Islands to take the job as the Managing
Director of SamVit – Faroe Islands Enterprise, the Faroese Trade and Tourism
Council, which now has been merged with the Faroese Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. The last 5 years before she moved to the Faroe Islands, she was the
Managing Editor of KIWI magazine, a Danish women’s and consumer’s magazine,
which she also helped launch. Elin was also the Marketing Coordinator of
Copenhagen City of Culture 1996.
Elin is now heading for new challenges. 1. September 2009 she became Head
of the Media and Development Department at Kringvarp Føroya - the Faroe
Islands National Broadcasting Company.
education
Elin holds a university degree (Cand.mag.) in aesthetics and culture and
also has an education in business economics from Copenhagen Business School
as well as being an educated screenwriter from Den Danske Filmskole (the
Danish Film School).
music
Elin also has a background as a singer and
songwriter. Read about her musical carreer here:
www.fljod.com
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