Mogens Lykketoft
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Born | 1946-01-09 Copenhagen, Denmark | ||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Danish | ||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | University of Copenhagen | ||||||||||||||||||
Religion | Lutheranism | ||||||||||||||||||
Children | Maja Kit | ||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | • Jytte Hilden • Mette Holm • Aase Toft • Helle Mollerup | ||||||||||||||||||
Member of | European Leadership Network | ||||||||||||||||||
Party | Social Democrats (Denmark) | ||||||||||||||||||
Danish politician and potential Prime Minister who attended four Bilderberg meetings.
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Mogens Lykketoft is a Danish politician who was Leader of the Social Democrats from 2002 to 2005. He attended four Bilderberg meetings between 1998 and 2007.
Early life
Lykketoft was born out of wedlock and put up for adoption. He was adopted twice, since his first adoptive father died when he was only a few months old. The second time he was adopted by shopkeeper Axel Lykketoft and Martha Lykketoft. He was the only child in the family and had, according to himself, a safe and secure childhood.[1]
Education
Lykketoft matriculated in mathematics from Frederiksberg Gymnasium, an upper secondary school, in 1964 and went on to study at the University of Copenhagen. In 1971 he became Cand.polit. (a Master's degree in economics by the University of Copenhagen). At Copenhagen University Lykketoft became a member of Frit Forum, the Social Democratic student organisation. From 1965 to 1970 he was part of its management committee and he was its national chairman for the academic year 1968/69.
Career
From 1975 to 1981 he was department head in The Economic Council of the Labour Movement, a Danish think tank made up of trade union leaders and Social Democratic MPs.[2] He had been working at the think tank since 1966.
Lykketoft is often considered to be one of the "Fantastic Four" Social Democrats from the so-called golden generation. The others are Ritt Bjerregaard and Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and Svend Auken.[3] The four together formed the leadership of the Social Democratic Party after Anker Jørgensen quit as chairman in 1987.
On 20 January 1981 Prime Minister Anker Jørgensen picked him to be Taxation Minister. He was minister for less than 20 months before the Social Democratic government resigned. In the 1981 general election he became MP for the Copenhagen County constituency. He was a member of the Folketing (the Danish parliament) until 2019, standing for election eleven times.[4]
Lykketoft became Minister of Finance on 25 January 1993 under Poul Nyrup Rasmussen. In 1996 during Lykketoft's time as Minister, the ministry also negotiated the sale of Datacentralen I/S to the American company Computer Sciences Corporation for DEK 500 million.[5] The sale was made despite warnings from the Defence Intelligence Service of handing over control of the sensitive data on Danish citizens stored in the Data Centre's systems to an American company.[6]
After the resignation of Niels Helveg Petersen, he moved to the post of Foreign Minister on December 21, 2000. On November 27, 2001, the government of Nyrup Rasmussen ended and Lykketoft became the leader of the opposition. With him as the leading candidate, the Social Democrats lost the Folketing election in 2005. As a result, he handed over the party chairmanship to Helle Thorning-Schmidt on April 12, 2005.
From October 4, 2011 to July 3, 2015, Lykketoft was the president of the Folketing. On June 15, 2015, he was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly[7] a position he had from September 2015 to September 2016.
Family
From 1987 to 2004 he was married to Minister of Culture Jytte Hilden. In 2005 he married the journalist Mette Holm. Lykketoft has two adult daughters.
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Bilderberg/1998 | 14 May 1998 | 17 May 1998 | Scotland Turnberry | The 46th Bilderberg meeting, held in Scotland, chaired by Peter Carrington |
Bilderberg/2003 | 15 May 2003 | 18 May 2003 | France Versailles | The 51st Bilderberg, in Versailles, France |
Bilderberg/2005 | 5 May 2005 | 8 May 2005 | Germany Rottach-Egern | The 53rd Bilderberg, 132 guests |
Bilderberg/2007 | 31 May 2007 | 3 June 2007 | Turkey Istanbul | The 55th Bilderberg meeting, held in Turkey |
References
- ↑ http://www.bt.dk/kendte/mogens-lykketoft-jeg-er-adoptivbarn
- ↑ http://www.ae.dk/english
- ↑ Hans Mortensen (2005), De fantastiske 4, Gyldendal, ISBN 9788702052701
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160326165726/http://www.thedanishparliament.dk/Members/smoly.aspx
- ↑ http://jyllands-posten.dk/indland/ECE3287272/amanda-skandalen-udloest-af-gradighed/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150709155622/http://www.bt.dk/krimi/danske-topofficerer-advarede-mod-csc-frygtede-usa-spionage-mod-danmark
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150709164849/http://www.bt.dk/udland/den-foerste-dansker-nogensinde-nu-er-lykketoft-valgt-som-formand-for-verdens-folket