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HENRIK BACH MORTENSEN ALDE PARTY VICE-PRESIDENT

HENRIK BACH MORTENSEN

ALDE BUREAU VICE-PRESIDENT HENRIK BACH MORTENSEN ALDE PARTY VICE-PRESIDENT

For the past four years, as ALDE Party BACKGROUND: vice-president, Henrik Bach Mortensen has • Henrik has been engaged in European worked tirelessly in support of ALDE and its politics since he joined the Young member parties. He has devoted his efforts leading up to the Danish Referendum on towards strengthening the relations between joining the European Economic Community parties in the ALDE family and he has been in 1972. He has taken part in ELD (ALDE) active in promoting human and liberal activities since the congress in Copenhagen values in Europe and beyond. in 1981. Since then, he has participated in numerous European Liberal congresses, Henrik believes that the EU is an important and as a representative for he part of the solution to the issues that face co-authored the ELDR political platforms Europeans. He has drawn attention to the for elections. need for common EU-efforts and EU-unity. • Henrik was in the leadership of the The experience of the Pandemic has shown Danish multi party movement all Europeans that common EU efforts are “Europa 2000” which built support for indispensable. He has spoken out against Danish participation in European illiberal tendencies in Europe. And he person- cooperation and integration. ally joined the successful campaign in the US • For many years Henrik was elected unani- to elect a Democratic President. mously as Chairman of The Danish Insti- tute for Parties and Democracy (DIPD) Henrik is highly devoted to reinforcing by all parties in the Danish Parliament. European cooperation and to facing the DIPD supports democratization and a massive European challenges on growth and democratic culture through partnerships trade, illegal migration, security and European with political parties, multiparty platforms competitiveness. and institutions in a number of countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the In the Bureau, Henrik will continue to work on Middle East. these priorities: • His professional life as an economist has • Building a political platform and kept him in close contact with European Campaign, which will give ALDE a leading and international issues. His working life role in future European politics commitments have centered on social and • Strengthening relations within ALDE labour market issues, vocational education between members parties, be it within or and general economics, all in close coop- outside the EU eration with business from all over the EU • Maintaining awareness of the most impor- and in the OECD countries. tant issues to European citizens: Economic • He was elected a local councilor – span- prosperity, migration, sustainability, ning the complete from security issues and basic human rights. his local neighborhood to global politics.

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ENDORSEMENT FROM VENSTRE’S CHAIRMAN, JAKOB ELLEMANN-JENSEN

Dear delegates In his professional career, he has been director of the Confederation of Danish Venstre, in , hereby Employers, responsible for tripartite nego- nominate Mr. Henrik Bach Mortensen for tiations with the government and unions reelection as Vice-President of the ALDE Party. on economic policy, labour market policies, qualifications, and education. Mr. Henrik Bach Mortensen has been an ALDE Vice President since 2016 and he has Henrik holds an MA in Economics from the contributed to a number of important and an M.Phil. in ALDE-activities: Economics from Cambridge University, UK. • He has joined member party activities in many European countries – both EU- Venstre calls for your support and your vote member and non-EU member countries. for Henrik Bach Mortensen. • He was active in the campaign up to the European elections in 2019 and he has undertaken several ALDE missions on behalf of the ALDE Bureau. • Henrik Bach Mortensen joined the young liberals in his teens and since then he has held numerous political positions. • He has been the head of the Liberal Party Staff in the Danish Parliament • He was on the Board of Venstre for many years and for decades • He has been involved in international liberal activities in ALDE/ELDR and . During the recent years, he has even become a local councilor.

Henrik was the first Chairman of the Danish Institute for Parties and Democracy set up by the Danish Parliament. Other in- ternational activities include Delegate to the UN General Assembly, Marshall Memorial Fellow of the German Marshall Fund, Board member of EU-agencies and several political Yours sincerely, committees at the OECD.

Jakob Ellemann-Jensen

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ENDORSEMENT FROM , MEMBER OF EUROPEAN COMMISSION

I endorse Henrik Bach Mortensen for a new For many years Henrik has been engaged term as Vice President of ALDE. Henrik is a in building well-functioning political parties true European and internationalist. He has in emerging democracies. He was chosen brought all his experience from politics and unanimously as Chairman of The Danish from his personal life into the activities of Institute for Parties and Democracy by the ALDE. And as Vice President he has worked Danish political parties. hard to strengthen the ALDE Party organisa- tion and the weight of the ALDE MEPs in the He has worked with fellow liberals in a num- European Parliament. ber of countries. He took part in organizing the first People Dialogue Festival in Kenya and He has a lot of experience on labour market he is involved in democracy projects with the issues, social affairs, economic policy and Democratic in . education. In Denmark he has negotiated numerous three partite agreements between the social partners. A VOTE FOR HENRIK IS A VOTE FOR AN AMBITIOUS WITH A VISIBLE AND EFFECTIVE ROLE IN THE WORLD

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ENDORSEMENT FROM MP AND POLITICAL LEADER , RADIKALE VENSTRE

Radikale Venstre (DEN) endorses Henrik Bach Mortensen for ALDE VP as our ON BEHALF OF THE DANISH membership of ALDE testifies Venstre and SOCIAL-LIBERALS, I THEREFORE EXTEND Radikale Venstre share fundamental liberal OUR HOPE, THAT YOU WILL JOIN US IN values despite of our differences nationally. VOTING FOR HENRIK BACH MORTENSEN AS VP IN THE ALDE-BUREAU I know Henrik Bach Mortensen as a liberal by heart and internationalist in spirit. He is a true European. I believe his recent terms as member of the ALDE bureau has shown he is able to stand tall on all our hard-fought .

Henrik has a strong record as an internation- alist and promoter of liberal core democratic values. He has a strong pan-European and cross-Atlantic network.

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