Merete Clausen

Before joining the European Investment Fund (EIF) in January 2025 as Deputy Chief Executive, Merete Clausen held key leadership positions within the European Commission. 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, she held various Head of Unit positions in DG ECFIN and was a member of the European Commission's Legal Service.

Before joining the European Commission, Merete 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.