When former Governor of Danmarks Nationalbank Bodil Nyboe Andersen was appointed so-called honorary alumnus at the University of Copenhagen, her ability to occupy “first places” in career and society was highlighted.
She was Denmark’s first female National Bank Governor, first female president of the Red Cross and head of the university’s first board.
On Friday 9 October, Bodil Nyboe Andersen turns 80 years old.
Already during her studies, she was at the forefront, even though she actually had to settle for a second place here.
She became a cand.polit. from the University of Copenhagen as a 26-year-old and after his last degree received the second highest average in the education according to the then curriculum.
The only one who got higher averages than her was her own father, the former Minister of Economy Poul Nyboe Andersen, back in 1939.
When the young Bodil decided to study economics like her father, she had to convince her mother in the first place that she did not have to take a year of home economics school before graduating.
It was probably a good decision, it turned out later.
Her career started with a couple of years in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, but when her father became Minister of Economic Affairs, she changed jobs and became a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen.
Since then, she entered the private business world as a director of Andelsbanken.
And in 1990 she became director of Danmarks Nationalbank – not only as the first woman in Denmark, but also as one of the first female central bank governors in the world.
However, she herself has never attached much importance to her gender.
– In daily work, no one thinks that I am a woman. And I do not belong to those who believe that there is a general difference between male and female leaders, she has said.
From 1995 to 2005, she was chairman of Danmarks Nationalbank’s Executive Board.
In 2005, Nyboe Andersen resigned from Danmarks Nationalbank and immediately afterwards became president of the Danish Red Cross and a member of a large number of boards, including the Foreign Policy Society.
Bodil Nyboe Andersen has been appointed a knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.
She has two sons, Kasper and Johan, from her marriage to Henning Holten. The couple divorced in 1985 after almost ten years of marriage.
None of the sons have gone the same way as their mother.
Kasper Holten is theater director for the Royal Theater, former opera director at the same place and at the Royal Opera House in London.
Johan Holten is a former ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet, art historian and today director of the German Art Museum Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
She was Denmark’s first female National Bank Governor, first female president of the Red Cross and head of the university’s first board.
On Friday 9 October, Bodil Nyboe Andersen turns 80 years old.
Already during her studies, she was at the forefront, even though she actually had to settle for a second place here.
She became a cand.polit. from the University of Copenhagen as a 26-year-old and after his last degree received the second highest average in the education according to the then curriculum.
The only one who got higher averages than her was her own father, the former Minister of Economy Poul Nyboe Andersen, back in 1939.
When the young Bodil decided to study economics like her father, she had to convince her mother in the first place that she did not have to take a year of home economics school before graduating.
It was probably a good decision, it turned out later.
Her career started with a couple of years in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, but when her father became Minister of Economic Affairs, she changed jobs and became a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen.
Since then, she entered the private business world as a director of Andelsbanken.
And in 1990 she became director of Danmarks Nationalbank – not only as the first woman in Denmark, but also as one of the first female central bank governors in the world.
However, she herself has never attached much importance to her gender.
– In daily work, no one thinks that I am a woman. And I do not belong to those who believe that there is a general difference between male and female leaders, she has said.
From 1995 to 2005, she was chairman of Danmarks Nationalbank’s Executive Board.
In 2005, Nyboe Andersen resigned from Danmarks Nationalbank and immediately afterwards became president of the Danish Red Cross and a member of a large number of boards, including the Foreign Policy Society.
Bodil Nyboe Andersen has been appointed a knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.
She has two sons, Kasper and Johan, from her marriage to Henning Holten. The couple divorced in 1985 after almost ten years of marriage.
None of the sons have gone the same way as their mother.
Kasper Holten is theater director for the Royal Theater, former opera director at the same place and at the Royal Opera House in London.
Johan Holten is a former ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet, art historian and today director of the German Art Museum Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
Source: The Nordic Page
