Keld Jørgensen was a student at Copenhagen University during World War 2 and also took part in the resistance movement. After the liberation he served as an officer in the Danish army. Later he became involved in an initiative for strengthening democracy in industry and for the reconciliation of Europe, which developed out of the international Moral Re-Armament conferences at Caux in Switzerland.
Keld Jørgensen worked with MRA for the rest of his life. He and his wife Inge engaged in programmes which aimed to reinforce the moral foundations of democracy in East Africa and around the Baltic Sea. He served on the Foreign Policy Committee of the Danish Social Democratic Party, and was Chair of the Labour Movement International Forum in his home city, Copenhagen.
