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Morten Kjærum (born March 30, 1957) is a Danish lawyer, who is a former director of the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the current director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights.

Kjærum obtained his degree in law from Aarhus University in 1984. He was the Head of the Danish Refugee Asylum Department from 1984-1991, and in 1991 he became director of the Danish Centre for Human Rights. When the Centre closed in 2002, Kjærum became director of the newly-established Institute for Human Rights at the Danish Centre for International Studies and Human Rights, where he worked until May 2008. In 2002 he became a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and in 2004 Chairman of the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC). In March 2008 he was appointed director of the Vienna-based EU Agency for Fundamental Rights.

In August 2008 Kjærum received a prize from the Danish National Association for Gays and Lesbians for promoting the rights of gays and lesbians.