Flemming Møller Mortensen

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| caption = Møller Mortensen in 2021

| name = Flemming Møller Mortensen

| order = Minister for Development and Nordic Cooperation

| term_start = 19 November 2020

| term_end = 15 December 2022

| primeminister = Mette Frederiksen

| predecessor = Rasmus Prehn (Development)
Mogens Jensen (Nordic Cooperation)

| successor = Dan Jørgensen (Development)
Louise Schack Elholm (Nordic Cooperation)

| office1 = Member of the Folketing

| term_start1 = 13 November 2007

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| constituency1 = North Jutland

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|7|3|df=y}}

| birth_place = Store Brøndum, Denmark

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| party = Social Democrats

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Flemming Møller Mortensen (born 3 July 1963) is a Danish politician of the Social Democrats who has been serving as a member of the Folketing since the 2007 elections.{{cite web |title=Flemming Møller Mortensen (S) |url=https://www.ft.dk/medlemmer/mf/f/flemming-moeller-mortensen |website=Ft.dk |access-date=16 August 2021}} He served as the Minister for Development and Nordic Cooperation in the government of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen between 2020 and 2022.

Political career

Mortensen sat in the municipal council of Skørping Municipality from 2001 to 2007, and then sat in the newly formed Rebild Municipality's municipal council in 2007. In 2007 he was also elected into parliament.

On 19 November 2020, Mortensen was appointed Minister of Development and Nordic Cooperation.{{cite web |title=Minister for udviklingssamarbejde og minister for nordisk samarbejde Flemming Møller Mortensen |url=https://www.regeringen.dk/ministrene/minister-for-udviklingssamarbejde-og-minister-for-nordisk-samarbejde-flemming-moeller-mortensen/ |website=Regeringen.dk |access-date=16 August 2021}} Following the 2022 election, he was replaced by Dan Jørgensen as minister for cooperation and Louise Schack Elholm as minister of Nordic cooperation.{{cite web |last=Bohr |first=Jakob Kjøgx |date=2022-12-15 |title=Her er SVM-regeringens ministre - TV 2 |url=https://nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2022-12-15-her-er-svm-regeringens-ministre |access-date=2022-12-15 |website=nyheder.tv2.dk |language=da-DK}}

Other activities

  • Joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee, Member (since 2022)[https://www.devcommittee.org/sites/dc/files/DC%20Members%20and%20Observers/PageEnglish2022_Annual%20Meetings_List_of_Governors%20and%20Observers%2010-14.pdf Members] Joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee.
  • World Bank, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2020)[https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/45fc8267f59fdf50a364f6538c2817e7-0330032021/original/BankGovernors.pdf Board of Governors] World Bank.

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