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Film & TV
Glostrup, Danmark
Known for
- Jetzt. Wohin. - Meine Reise mit Robert Habeck — Self2025
- Tæt på Sandheden Undersøger — Sig selv2025
- Manden i Hullet — Sig selv2025
- Verdens Vildeste Race — Sig selv2025
- The Click Trap — Self2024
- Statsministeren Helle Thorning-Schmidt — Sig selv2023
- Smash Facebook and Co.? - The debate about the power of social media corporations — Self - Vizepräsidentin der EU-Kommission2022
- Tax Me If You Can — Self2022
- Europe, un continent bouleversé2022
- 5 år senere — Margrethe Vestager2020
via TMDB
Key facts
- Commission
- Von der Leyen I
- Preceded by
- Position established
- Succeeded by
- Henna Virkkunen
- Prime minister
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
- Born
- ( 1968-04-13 ) 13 April 1968 (age 58) , Glostrup , Denmark
- Party
- Social Liberal Party
- Other political affiliations
- Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party
- Spouse
- Thomas Jensen ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1994 )
- Education
- University of Copenhagen
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Margrethe
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Danish Realm
- Place of birth
- Glostrup
- Occupation
- poet
- Position held
- vice-president of the European Commission
- Political party
- Danish Social Liberal Party
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- Danish
- Academic degree
- Cand.polit.
- Image
- Margrethe Vestager by Christian Ursilva (2026).jpg
- Work location
- Brussels
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- sexual orientation
- heterosexuality
- member of
- Trilateral Commission
- name in native language
- Margrethe Vestager
- Commons category
- Margrethe Vestager
- social media followers
- 509
- date of birth
- 1968-04-13
- described at URL
- www.ft.dk/medlemmer/mf/m/margrethe-vestager
- P10632
- Margrethe Vestager
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Encyclopedic overview
Margrethe Vestager (born 13 April 1968) is a Danish politician who formerly served as Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age between December 2019 and November 2024 in the Von Der Leyen Commission and was European Commissioner for Competition between 2014 and 2024 under Commission Presidents Juncker and Von Der Leyen. Vestager is a member of the Danish Social Liberal Party, and of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE) on the European level.
Prior to joining the European Commission, she served in the Danish governments of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen as Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs from 1998 to 2000 and Minister of Education from 1998 to 2001. She was leader of the Social Liberals from 2007 to 2014, and served as Minister of Economic Affairs and the Interior under Helle Thorning-Schmidt from 2011 to 2014.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Margrethe Vestager” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.