Flemming Møller Mortensen

For the Danish footballer, see Flemming Mortensen.

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.^[1] He served as the Minister for Development and Nordic Cooperation in the government of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen between 2020 and 2022.

Flemming Møller Mortensen
Møller Mortensen in 2021
Minister for Development and Nordic Cooperation
In office 19 November 2020 – 15 December 2022
Prime Minister	Mette Frederiksen
Preceded by	Rasmus Prehn (Development) Mogens Jensen (Nordic Cooperation)
Succeeded by	Dan Jørgensen (Development) Louise Schack Elholm (Nordic Cooperation)
Member of the Folketing
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 November 2007
Constituency	North Jutland
Personal details
Born	(1963-07-03) 3 July 1963 (age 62) Store Brøndum, Denmark
Political party	Social Democrats

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.^[2] Following the 2022 election, he was replaced by Dan Jørgensen as minister for cooperation and Louise Schack Elholm as minister of Nordic cooperation.^[3]

Other activities

• Joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee, Member (since 2022)^[4]
• World Bank, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2020)^[5]