Editing Mogens Lykketoft (section)

==Early life==
Lykketoft was born out of wedlock and put up for adoption. He was adopted twice, since his first adoptive father died when he was only a few months old. The second time he was adopted by shopkeeper Axel Lykketoft and Martha Lykketoft. He was the only child in the family and had, according to himself, a safe and secure childhood.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bt.dk/kendte/mogens-lykketoft-jeg-er-adoptivbarn|title=Mogens Lykketoft: I am adopted (in Danish)|publisher=B.T.|access-date=December 17, 2014|date=March 31, 2012}}</ref>

Lykketoft matriculated in mathematics from [[Frederiksberg Gymnasium]], an upper secondary school, in 1964 and went on to study at the [[University of Copenhagen]]. In 1971 he became [[Cand.polit.]] (a [[Master's degree]] in economics by the University of Copenhagen). At Copenhagen University Lykketoft became a member of [[Frit Forum]], the Social Democratic student organisation. From 1965 to 1970 he was part of its management committee and he was its national chairman for the [[Academic term|academic year]] 1968/69.

From 1975 to 1981 he was department head in "The Economic Council of the Labour Movement", a Danish think tank made up of trade union leaders and Social Democratic MPs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ae.dk/english |title=AE's english information page |publisher=AE |access-date=December 18, 2014}}</ref> He had been working at the think tank since 1966.