Mogens Lykketoft

Mogens Lykketoft    ( politician,  diplomat)
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.  President of the United Nations General Assembly  In office 16 September 2015 - September 2016 Preceded by Sam Kutesa  Speaker of the Folketing  In office 29 September 2011 - 3 July 2015  Social Democrats (Denmark)/Leader  In office 14 December 2002 - 12 April 2005 Succeeded by Helle Thorning-Schmidt  Denmark/Minister/Foreign Affairs  In office 21 December 2000 - 27 November 2001  Denmark/Minister/Finance  In office 25 January 1993 - 21 December 2000  Denmark/Minister/Taxation In office 20 January 1980 - 10 September 1981

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.

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. 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. 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.

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. 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.

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 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
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

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