Margrethe Vestager is a Danish politician representing the Danish Social Liberal Party. She has been a Member of Parliament since 20 November 2001. On 15 June 2007 she was appointed parliamentary group leader of her party, replacing Marianne Jelved. On October 3, 2011, she became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic and Interior Affairs under the government of Helle Thorning-Schmidt. On 31 August 2014, Thorning-Schmidt announced that Vestager will step out of the government to become the Danish EU commissioner in the Juncker Commission. It has been reported that she will get the Environment dossier, but that has been denied by Vestager herself. She was eventually given the Competition seat in the Juncker commission. Vestager earned economics degree the University of Copenhagen in 1993. At the age of 21, she joined the central board and executive committee of the SLP and of the European Affairs Committee. Upon graduating, Vestager immediately became National Chairwoman of the Party, until she became Minister of Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs in 1998. In 2001, she was elected to a seat in the Danish Parliament and became Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Group in 2007. 

April 13th, 1968 in Glostrup (Age 56)