Biography
Marlene Rosemarie Madsen is the Deputy Director of the Ukraine Service, in DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations. She is responsible for the Ukraine Plan, the tool delivering the financial budget support to Ukraine for 2024-2027 as well as presenting the priorities for the technical assistance and investment pillar of the Ukraine Facility. She is also responsible for a large number of chapters in the enlargement process.
Prior to that Marlene was the Deputy Head of the Cabinet of Commissioner Ferreira, responsible for Cohesion and Reform, since December 2019. Besides the horizontal tasks of a Deputy Head of Cabinet, she was also responsible for the Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM), public administrations, Cyprus Settlement Support, Brexit Adjustment Reserve and the PEACE plus programme and international files.
From May 2018 to December 2019 she was Head of the revenue administration and public financial management Unit, in the Commission’s Structural Reform Support Service. Prior to becoming Head of Unit, Marlene spent nearly 3 years in the private office of Vice President Jyrki Katainen, responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness. During the last year she was Deputy Head of Cabinet, and for 3 months acting Head of Cabinet. Besides taking care of horizontal files, she was also responsible for financial services and the Capital Markets Union.
Prior to joining the Cabinet, she worked in two different parts of the European Commission. This includes 3 years as a senior economist in the Chief Economist unit in DG TRADE and more than 3 years in the policy coordination and strategy unit in DG ECFIN.
Before joining the Commission January 2009, Marlene worked in two Member States' governments. She worked several years as an economist for the Danish government and then moved to the UK where she worked as an economist for the British government for 5 years, the last position held was as Head of Europe and Single Market economics.
Marlene is a Danish citizen and studied economics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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