Curriculum Vitae (in English)

• 1969 - 1971 Member of the Taarnby Municipal Council
• 1971 - 1975 Member of Parliament (Folketinget)
• 1977 - September 2000 Member of Parliament (Folketinget)
• 1977 - 1993, 1994 - 2000 Member of the Danish Board of the Interparliamentary 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 (SIW) (Vice-President)
• 1994 - 1998 Vice-President of OSCE - Parliamentary Assembly, and Chairperson of the OSCE Socialist Group
• 1994 - 2000
• Chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee of Parliament (Folketinget)
• 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 (Folketinget)
• Vice-President of the Socialist International Women
• Spokesperson for the Social Democrats on Foreign and Security Polity
• Chairperson of the UN Parliamentary Group of Parliament (Folketinget)
• 1997 - 2000 Chairman of P.D. Burma
• 1998 - 1999 President of OSCE - Parliamentary Assembly
• 1999 - 2000 President of OSCE - Parliamentary Assembly. 2nd term
• 2000 Decorated by HRM Queen Margrethe II: Commander of Dannebrog
• 2000 Commissioner of the Council of the Baltic Sea States on Democratic Development
• 2004 Resigns as 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. RED
• 2005 Member of Presidium of the International Club of Copenhagen. ICC
• 2005 President of Rehabiliterings centret for etniske kvinder i Danmark. RED
• 2006 Member of Social Economics think-tank
• 2006 Appointed Ambassador for Dansk Folkehjælp
• 2008 Resigns as President of RED.
• 2008 Chairman of Mandela Center, Denmark