Jørgen Mortenson
Senior Associate Fellow
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Jørgen Mortensen is Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). He graduated in economics and statistics from the University in Copenhagen in 1963. After a brief period as administrator at the Central Statistical Office he took up a post as junior economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. From 1973 to 1988 he was a senior economist (Head of Division) in the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission. Since 1989, he has been free-lance researcher, mainly associated with CEPS.
Jørgen Mortensen has written or edited numerous research reports and books on issues as the financing of retirement provision, portability of pension rights, the role of intellectual capital in the economy, intangibles in business accounting and, more recently, on various aspects of demographic aging and its consequences for retirement and health care provision.
Since 2000, his main responsibility has been the management of the European Network of Economic Policy Institutes (ENEPRI), initiated by CEPS in 1999 with financing from the EC’s Fifth Framework Programme for research (FP) and now including more than twenty European institutes in the field of applied socio-economic research. In this context, he is also responsible for the formulation and coordination of several FP5 and FP6 research projects implemented by consortiums formed within, but normally also with partners from outside, the ENEPRI framework.