Career
Lykketoft is son of paint dealer Axel Lykketoft and Martha Lykketoft.
Lykketoft has a degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen, 1971. He was Foreign Minister, 21 December 2000 – 27 November 2001, Finance Minister, 25 January 1993 – 21 December 2000 and Minister for Taxation, 20 January 1981 – 10 September 1982.
Within the party he has been fulfilling the positions as Foreign Policy Spokesman from 2005, chairman of the party, 2002–2005, economic and political affairs spokesman and finance policy spokesman, 1988–1991, political spokesman, 1991–1993 and 2001–02, and he has been member of such bodies as the Income Tax Committee, 1975–1977, the Board of Assessors, 1976–1981 and 1984–1993, chairman of the Folketing's Fiscal Affairs Committee, 1984–1986, of the Folketing's Trade and Industry Committee, 1987–1988, and of the Folketing's Economic and Political Affairs Committee, 1988-1990. Additionally, he was head of department at the Economic Council of the Labour Movement, 1975 - 1981.
On 15 September 2011 after the 2011 Danish parliamentary election Lykketoft became Speaker of the Folketing.
Read more about this topic: Mogens Lykketoft
Famous quotes containing the word career:
“I doubt that I would have taken so many leaps in my own writing or been as clear about my feminist and political commitments if I had not been anointed as early as I was. Some major form of recognition seems to have to mark a woman’s career for her to be able to go out on a limb without having her credentials questioned.”
—Ruth Behar (b. 1956)
“He was at a starting point which makes many a man’s career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“From a hasty glance through the various tests I figure it out that I would be classified in Group B, indicating “Low Average Ability,” reserved usually for those just learning to speak the English Language and preparing for a career of holding a spike while another man hits it.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)