| Bjarne Corydon | |
| Office: | Minister of Finance |
| Primeminister: | Helle Thorning-Schmidt |
| Term Start: | 3 October 2011 |
| Term End: | 28 June 2015 |
| Predecessor: | Claus Hjort Frederiksen |
| Successor: | Claus Hjort Frederiksen |
| Office1: | Member of the Folketing |
| Termstart1: | 15 September 2011 |
| Termend1: | 12 January 2016 |
| Constituency1: | South Jutland |
| Birth Date: | 1 March 1973 |
| Birth Place: | Kolding, Denmark |
| Alma Mater: | Aarhus University |
| Party: | Social Democrats |
| Birth Name: | Bjarne Fog Corydon |
Bjarne Fog Corydon (born 1 March 1973) is a Danish former politician, who was a member of the Folketing from the Social Democrats from 2011 to 2016. He served as Finance Minister of Denmark in the Cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt from 2011 to 2015, and was formerly her secretary.[1]
In 2011 he was elected to the Folketing, and was appointed Minister of Finance by Helle Thorning-Schmidt.[2] He was behind the controversial sale of the Danish company DONG to the american Goldman Sachs in 2014, which led the Socialist People's Party to leave the government coalition.[3]
After he left the Folketing in 2016, Corydon worked for the management consulting company McKinsey & Co, and he was in 2018 appointed new CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Dagbladet Børsen, a Danish newspaper specialising in business news published in Denmark.[4]