Merete CLAUSEN

With a distinguished career spanning over three decades, Merete Clausen has held key leadership positions within the European Commission, contributing significantly to EU investment and economic policy, and legal affairs. From 2022 onwards, she served as Director for Investment at the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship, and SMEs (DG GROW), overseeing strategic investment initiatives.

Prior to this, Merete Clausen played a pivotal role in economic and financial policymaking, holding various Head of Unit positions in DG ECFIN, where she managed initiatives focusing on financing for innovation, competitiveness, and collaboration with international financial institutions. Earlier in her career, she was a member of the European Commission's Legal Service, specialising in budgetary, taxation, and customs matters.

Before joining the European Commission, Merete Clausen built a strong legal foundation as a lawyer-linguist at the European Court of Justice and practiced EU and competition law in a leading law firm in Denmark. She began her legal career as an assistant attorney-at-law at Kammeradvokaten, the Legal Adviser to the Danish Government. She has a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Aarhus.