Dan Jørgensen took office as Denmark’s Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy on 15 December 2022. Prior to this, he was the Minister for Climate, Energy, and Utilities from 2019 to 2022, and Minister for Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries between 2013 and 2015. Mr. Jørgensen started his long parliamentary career as a Member of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) for the Social Democratic Party in 2015, and he was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2013.