Ursula von der Leyen
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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,
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
Since 2004, Forbes, an American business magazine, has published an annual list of its ranking of the 100 most powerful women in the world. Edited by prominent Forbes journalists, including Moira Forb
Ursula von der Leyen
…of the European Parliament out of 720. Her absolute majority was strengthened by around 30 votes compared to her election in 2019. She was named the most powerful woman in the world by Forbes in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. Von der Leyen was born in 1958 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium, where she lived until she was 13 years old. In…
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