Lasse Hamilton Heidemann
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NationalityDanish
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LanguagesDanish, English
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Phone+32 47 20 74 280
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Emaillasse.heidemann@digitaleurope.org
Lasse joined DIGITALEUROPE as Senior Director for Outreach
Lasse was previously Senior Director for EU- and International Affairs at the Danish Chamber of Commerce where he has been for 8 years, and where he has worked on a broad range of issues including digital area, internal market, competitiveness, competition- and industrial policy – apart from a number on more concrete legislative files. He is responsible for outreach to all relevant stakeholders in Brussels as well as dealing with the press and representing the organisation in Danish and European contexts. Before this, he worked for the Danish Competition- and Consumer Authority, The Danish Ministry for Business, The Danish Business Authority and the European Commission (then DG SANCO) as well as in a role at a private management consulting firm in London.
He furthermore has been appointed to an advisory body to the European Commission (Fit-4-Future platform), been the Chairman for the Committee on Internal Market, Consumer- and Digital Policy in Eurocommerce and had a number of other formal and informal roles and academic guest lecture engagements.
He holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Aalborg University, and has lived and worked in Brussels for more than 12 years.