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Margrethe Vestager
Former European Commissioner for Competition & EVP of the European Commission | Chair, Technical University of Denmark | On Big Tech, AI & Digital Policy
For ten years, Margrethe Vestager was the regulator Silicon Valley watched most closely. As European Commissioner for Competition and Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, she took on the world's largest tech companies and helped write the rules of the digital age. Now Chair of the Board at the Technical University of Denmark, she brings audiences a rare insider's view of where technology, competition, and democracy collide.
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Margrethe Vestager biography
Margrethe Vestager is one of the most consequential figures in the global conversation about technology, competition, and democratic values. For a decade she stood at the center of European policymaking, first as European Commissioner for Competition from 2014 to 2024, and from 2019 also as Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age. In those roles she became known worldwide as the regulator willing to take on the largest technology companies on earth in the name of fair markets and consumer protection.
Political speaker Margrethe Vestager led landmark antitrust and state-aid cases that reshaped how digital markets operate, pursued major decisions on data, privacy, and platform power, and helped drive the European Union’s wider strategy on artificial intelligence and the digital economy. A trained economist, she came to Brussels after a distinguished political career in Denmark, where she served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Affairs and the Interior, and earlier as Minister for Education. That combination of national leadership and supranational regulation gives her a uniquely complete view of how policy is actually made and enforced.
From Brussels to the Frontier of Technology and Education
Since January 2025, Vestager has served as Chair of the Board of Governors at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), one of Europe’s leading technical universities, where she focuses on how research and innovation can address challenges from climate change to security while keeping technology in the service of people. She is also a World Leaders Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. Her decade as Europe’s antitrust chief was chronicled in the 2024 biography “Vestager’s World,” and she has been named among the Financial Times’ most influential women.
As a speaker, Margrethe Vestager offers something few others can: the perspective of a leader who has personally written and enforced the rules now shaping the digital age. She speaks with clarity and warmth on regulating big tech, the interplay of innovation, privacy, and fair competition, the responsible governance of artificial intelligence, and the future of European and global technological leadership. Senior audiences leave with a sharper understanding of where economics, technology, and democracy meet, and what responsible leadership demands in a time of rapid change.
Margrethe Vestager Speaking Videos
The new age of corporate monopolies | Margrethe Vestager
Margrethe Vestager on Digital Technologies | SXSW
Margrethe Vestager Keynote Topics
Drawing on a decade of landmark cases against the world's largest technology companies, Margrethe Vestager explores how competition policy is evolving in the digital age. She examines what fair markets mean when a handful of platforms shape global commerce and communication, and what leaders, regulators, and businesses should expect next.
Vestager helped define the European Union's strategy for a digital economy that is competitive, innovative, and rooted in democratic values. She shares her perspective on how Europe can build differently and better, the contest for technological sovereignty among the US, China, and Europe, and what is at stake for organizations operating across these markets.
The promise of new technology comes with hard questions about data, privacy, and power. Vestager offers a clear-eyed framework for weighing innovation against protection, drawing on the real decisions she made at the heart of European regulation and what they reveal about responsible growth.
As AI reshapes economies and societies, the question is no longer whether to govern it but how. Vestager examines how policymakers and business leaders can encourage bold innovation while ensuring technology serves people, exploring the principles behind trustworthy and accountable AI.
From antitrust enforcement to digital strategy, Vestager has seen how the relationship between governments, markets, and citizens is being rewritten. She explores how public institutions can stay effective and legitimate in a fast-moving technological era, and why democratic values must remain central to the digital transition.
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FAQs on Booking Margrethe Vestager
Why Margrethe Vestager?
Booking Margrethe Vestager is a strategic choice for events that want a truly singular authority on technology, competition, and democracy. For ten years she was the European Union's competition chief and a driving force of its digital agenda, the regulator who took on the biggest names in technology and helped write the rules now shaping the global digital economy. Few speakers can match her combination of national political leadership in Denmark, supranational regulatory power in Brussels, and a current vantage point at the frontier of research and innovation as Chair of the Technical University of Denmark. Warm, precise, and intellectually fearless, she helps audiences understand the forces redefining markets and society, making her an ideal speaker for conferences on technology, policy, leadership, and the future of business. To bring Margrethe Vestager to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
What is Margrethe Vestager known for?
Margrethe Vestager is best known as the European Commissioner for Competition from 2014 to 2024, a role in which she pursued high-profile antitrust and state-aid cases against some of the world's largest technology companies. From 2019 she also served as Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age, helping to shape the EU's strategy on digital markets, data, and artificial intelligence. Her work made her one of the most recognized regulators in the world.
What is Margrethe Vestager doing now?
Since January 2025, Margrethe Vestager has served as Chair of the Board of Governors at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), one of Europe's leading technical universities, after completing her term at the European Commission in November 2024. She is also a World Leaders Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, and she speaks and advises internationally on technology, competition, and the responsible governance of innovation.
What topics does political speaker Margrethe Vestager cover?
Margrethe Vestager speaks on regulating big tech, competition policy, the governance of artificial intelligence, digital transformation, privacy and data, and the future of European and global technological leadership. Her keynotes suit corporate conferences, leadership and policy summits, technology events, and audiences interested in the intersection of economics, technology, and democracy. To book Margrethe Vestager as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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