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POSTPONED: Belfer Center Director's Seminar with Margrethe Vestager

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Join Belfer Center Director Ash Carter for a conversation with Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, on the prospects for transatlantic cooperation in the digital age. As the European Union rolls out new visions for data usage and privacy, artificial intelligence and ethical governance, and online platform regulation, the discussion will focus on the bloc’s new strategies to become a world leader in technology.

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Date: Time: - Location: Online
The Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, Margrethe Vestager, addresses the media prior to the "European Competition Day" at the German Economy Ministry in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 7, 2020.

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About the Speaker

Margrethe Vestager is the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President for a Europe fit for the digital age, since 2019. In this role she is responsible for the overall coordination of digital, industrial, and innovation policy initiatives, as well as having direct responsibility for the Competition portfolio, which she already held previously as Commissioner for Competition (2014-19). She was Minister for Economic Affairs and the Interior (2011-14) and Minister for Education (1998-2001) of Denmark; President of the ECOFIN Council during the Danish EU Presidency (2012). She was Political leader of the Danish Social Liberal Party (2007-14), and has worked for the Danish Ministry of Finance (1993-95). Ms. Vestager holds an MSc in Economics (University of Copenhagen).

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