Connie Hedegaard new external member of the board of AU
54-year-old Connie Hedegaard, who up until the end of October had spent the past four years as the very first EU commissioner for climate action, took up a new position on 1 December as new external member of the Board of Directors of Aarhus University.
Hedegaard will replace Mariann Fischer Boel, who has decided to step down from the board, and she will take part in her first board meeting on 17 December.
AU’s board consists of one external chairman of the board, five external members, three employee representatives and two student representatives.
Connie Hedegaard in brief: Graduate of the University of Copenhagen with a Master's degree in comparative literature and history. Elected as a member of the Danish Parliament for the first time in 1984 for the Conservative People's Party. Appointed minister for the environment in 2004 and climate and energy minister in 2009. In 2010 she was appointed as the first EU climate action commissioner - a post she held until the end of October this year. Connie Hedegaard has just been appointed chair of the Villum Foundation’s new international climate foundation, which has been named the Kann Foundation.
Translated by Peter Lambourne.