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Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission since 2019
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In this German name, the surname is von der Leyen.
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (German:[ˈʊʁzulaˈɡɛʁtʁuːtfɔndeːɐ̯ˈlaɪən]ⓘ; née Albrecht; born 8 October 1958) is a German politician, serving as the 13th president of the European Commission since 2019.
She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding positions in Angela Merkel's cabinet, most recently as federal minister of defence. She is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its affiliated European political party, the European People's Party (EPP).
On 7 March 2024, the EPP elected her as its Spitzenkandidat to lead the campaign for the 2024 European Parliament elections. She was re-elected to head the Commission in July 2024.[1]
Albrecht was born and raised in Brussels, Belgium, to German p