Awards & Recognition
★Dane of the Year 2016
★Ting Prize 2018 for political communication
★Financial Times' 25 most influential women 2024
★TIME magazine's 100 most influential people 2023
★Fortune's World's Greatest Leaders 2018, 2019
Notable Facts
→Former Executive Vice President of European Commission (2019-2024) and Commissioner for Competition (2014-2024)
→Known as 'the world's most powerful trustbuster' for taking on Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook
→Ordered Apple to pay $14.5 billion in back taxes to Ireland
→Fined Google $9 billion total for anticompetitive behavior
→Currently Chair of the Board at Technical University of Denmark
→World Leader Fellow at Blavatnik Institute, Oxford
→Former Danish Minister for Economic Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister
→Described as inspiration for the character in Danish TV series 'Borgen'