Margrethe Vestager

Executive Vice-President for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age and Commissioner for Competition, European Commission, Brussels

Margrethe Vestager is the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age and Commissioner for Competition.
Between 2011 and 2014, she served as Minister for Economic Affairs and the Interior and was Minister for Education of Denmark from 1998 until 2001. In 2012 she served as President of the ECOFIN Council.
In 2007 she became Political leader of the Danish Social Liberal Party and remained in this position until 2014.
She worked for the Danish Ministry of Finance between 1993 – 1995.
Ms Vestager holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen.