The president of the European Commission, also known as president of the College of Commissioners, is the head of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union. The president of
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Walter Hallstein, the first president of the Commission
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Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician and physician who has served as President of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019,
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…president of the Commission also delivers an annual State of the Union address to the European Parliament. In July 2019, the European Council nominated Ursula von der Leyen to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker, and she was elected the 13th president of the European Commission by the European Parliament on 16 July. Von der Leyen…
Official portrait, 2024
Official portrait, 2020
Portrait of Mrs. Robert Gilmor Jr. — Ursula von der Leyen's great-grandmother of the influential South Carolinian planter class family Ladson — painting by Thomas Sully, c. 1823. Von der Leyen lived in London in the late 1970s under the alias Rose Ladson
2005 campaign poster featuring von der Leyen