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Morten Helveg Petersen

Politician

Morten Helveg Petersen is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Morten Helveg Petersen · Morten Petersen · Мортен Хельвег Петерсен · مورتين هيلڤيج پيتيرسين				[sources]
Alias	Мортен Хельвег Петерсен				[sources]
Birth date	1966-09-14				[sources]
Place of birth	Copenhagen				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Denmark				[sources]
Country	Denmark · European Union				[sources]
Citizenship	Denmark				[sources]
Classification	International organization (past) · National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Morten · Morten Helveg				[sources]
Last name	Petersen				[sources]
Website	puls.politiko.dk · www.ft.dk · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q12327679				[sources]
Position	Folketing (member, 2005-2007) · Folketing (member, 2007-2011) · Member of the European Parliament (2014-2019) · Member of the European Parliament (2019-) · member of the Folketing (1998-2001) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	Cand.polit. · European School · European School, Brussels I · Falkonergårdens Gymnasium · INSEAD · 1 more...				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Danish politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Niels Helveg Petersen Politician	father	-	-
Hanne Elisabeth Aarup Close Associate	mother	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Folketing	2005-02-08	2007-11-12
member of the Folketing	2007-11-13

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Rasmus Helveg Petersen Politician	sibling	-	-

Data sources

Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland PEPs1,918

Official PEP list for Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland

Denmark · Finanstilsynet

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories381,157

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,763

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician57,893

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,425

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata354,030

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-6fae4bd0-5c16-431f-8d5f-1cdb3ad0e3a6 · dk-pep-morten-helveg-petersen

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