Flemming Møller Mortensen

Flemming Møller Mortensen, born 3 July 1963, is a Danish politician of the Social Democrats who has sat in the Folketing, the Danish parliament, since the 2007 elections. He began in local government, serving on the municipal council of Skørping Municipality from 2001 to 2007 and then on the council of the newly formed Rebild Municipality in 2007, the year he entered parliament. On 19 November 2020 he was appointed Minister for Development and Nordic Cooperation in the government of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and he held that post until the government formed after the 2022 election, when the portfolio was split and handed to Dan Jørgensen for development cooperation and Louise Schack Elholm for Nordic cooperation. Alongside his parliamentary work he has been listed as a member of the joint World Bank and International Monetary Fund Development Committee since 2022 and as an ex officio member of the World Bank Board of Governors since 2020.