{{Short description|Faroese politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ruth Vang | office = Member of the Faroese Parliament | term_start = 2015 | term_end = 2019 | birth_date = 5 April 1966 | constituency = | party = Progress | birth_place = | death_date = | alma_mater = Aarhus University School of Business and Social Sciences }}
'''Ruth Vang''' (born 5 April 1966)<ref>{{Cite web |title=logting.fo - Ruth Vang |url=http://logting.fo/parliamentmember/view.gebs?parliamentMember.id=154&back=true&menuChanged=20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925122439/http://logting.fo/parliamentmember/view.gebs?parliamentMember.id=154&back=true&menuChanged=20 |archive-date=25 September 2015 |access-date=24 September 2015}}</ref> is a Faroese politician (FS). She is also a midwife and banker.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Framsokn.fo - Ruth Vang |url=http://www.framsokn.fo/ruth+vang_ubdj.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925123351/http://www.framsokn.fo/ruth+vang_ubdj.html |archive-date=25 September 2015 |access-date=24 September 2015}}</ref>
== Biography == Vang lives in Tórshavn. She graduated as a midwife at the Danish School of Midwifery in Copenhagen in 1992 and worked as a midwife at the National Hospital ({{Interlanguage link|Landssjúkrahúsið|lt=Landssjúkrahúsið|da|Landssjúkrahúsið}}) in Tórshavn from 1992 to 1999, and then as a senior midwife from 1999 to 2005.<ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/ruth-vang/62/699/981 linkedin.com - Ruth Vang]{{Dead link|date=January 2022|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> She also studied accounting and financial management at Aarhus University School of Business and Social Sciences from 2001 to 2005 and made a career change to the financial sector. From 2005 to 2011 she was a credit advisor at Eik Bank. Since 1 January 2013 she has been employed as a department manager at Tórshavn Municipality.<ref>[http://www.torshavn.fo/Default.aspx?pageid=37&NewsItemID=3844 Torshavn.fo - Nýggjur leiðari á Barna- og ungdómsdeildini] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925114025/http://www.torshavn.fo/Default.aspx?pageid=37&NewsItemID=3844|date=25. september 2015}}, publiceret den 27. nov. 2012.</ref>
== Political career == Vang ran for the 2015 Faroese general election without being elected, but subsequently entered parliament as a substitute for Framsókn chairman Poul Michelsen, when the latter was appointed Minister of Trade and Industry and Foreign Affairs in Aksel V. Johannesen's government.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ruth Vang: Hvad er Nordens rolle i en turbulent verden? {{!}} Nordisk Samarbejde |url=https://www.norden.org/da/media/992 |access-date=2026-03-24 |website=www.norden.org}}</ref>
Ruth Vang is leading her party into the 2026 Faroese general election.<ref>{{Cite web |title=22-11 til andstøðuna - Javnaðarflokkurin og Framsókn bløða |url=https://dagur.fo/22-11-til-andstoduna--javnadarflokkurin-og-framsokn-bloda |access-date=2026-03-24 |website=dagur.fo}}</ref>
=== Parliamentary committee === * 2015 - Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Parliament<ref>[http://portal.fo/ruth+vang+forkvinna+i+figgjarnevndini.html Portal.fo - Ruth Vang forkvinna í fíggjarnevndini] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001175245/http://portal.fo/ruth+vang+forkvinna+i+figgjarnevndini.html|date=1. oktober 2015}}, skrevet af Steinar Patursson 30.09.2015 - 11:53</ref>
== Personal life == She is the daughter of Ester and Petur Danielsen and is married to Dánjal Vang. They have three children: Ester, Petur Kristinn and Hanna.
== References == {{Reflist}}
== See also == * <bdi>List of members of the Løgting, 2015–2019</bdi> * <bdi>List of members of the Løgting, 2022–current</bdi>
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vang, Ruth}} Category:1966 births Category:Living people Category:Members of the Løgting Category:Progress (Faroe Islands) politicians Category:21st-century Danish women politicians Category:People from Tórshavn
{{Faroes-politician-stub}}