Helle Degn

Career

• 1969–1971 Member of the Tårnby Municipal Council
• 1971–1975 Member of Parliament
• 1977–2000 Member of Parliament
• 1977–1993, 1994–2000 Member of the Danish Board of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
• 1997, 1980, 1985, 1995 and 2000 Member of the Danish delegation to the UN World Conference on Women
• 1982–1987 Chairperson of the Equal Status Commission under the Prime Ministers Office
• 1993–1994 Minister of Development Cooperation
• 1993 Head of delegation of the UN Conference on Human Rights
• 1994 Head of Delegation at the UN Conference on Population in Cairo
• 1993–1999 Socialist International Women
• 1994–1998 Vice-President of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe - Parliamentary Assembly, and Chairperson of the OSCE Socialist Group
• 1994–2000
• * Chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee of Parliament
• * Chairman of the Danish delegation to the OSCE-PA
• * Member of the Danish delegation to the Council of Europe
• * Chairperson of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Development, Council of Europe
• * Member of the Finance Committee of Parliament
• * Vice-President of the Socialist International Women
• * Spokesperson for the Social Democrats on Foreign and Security Policy
• * Chairperson of the UN Parliamentary Group of Parliament
• 1997–2000 Chairman of P.D. Burma
• 1998–1999 President of OSCE - Parliamentary Assembly
• 1999–2000 President of OSCE - Parliamentary Assembly.
• 2000–2004 Commissioner of the Council of the Baltic Sea States on Democratic Development
• 2004 Member of the board of Rehabiliterings centret for etniske kvinder i Danmark
• 2005 Member of Presidium of the International Club of Copenhagen. ICC
• 2005–2008 President of Rehabiliterings centret for etniske kvinder i Danmark.
• 2006 Member of Social Economics think-tank
• 2006 Appointed Ambassador for Dansk Folkehjælp
• 2008 Chairman of Mandela Center, Denmark