Mette Eistrøm Krüger is new SVP Corporate Affairs in the Lundbeck Foundation
The Lundbeck Foundation is pleased to announce that, as of 1 March 2025, Mette Eistrøm Krüger will join as the new SVP of Corporate Affairs. In this role, she will oversee the Foundation’s comprehensive HR, public affairs, and communications activities, as well as its strategic processes.
Starting from the new year, Lundbeck Foundation will strengthen its organisation by appointing Mette Eistrøm Krüger, who will take on the role of SVP Corporate Affairs no later than 1 March. With overall responsibility for the Foundation’s HR, public affairs, communications, and strategic processes, she will play a central role in further developing the Foundation’s internal operations and strengthening its external relations.
The Lundbeck Foundation is experiencing a period of positive growth, with a significant expansion of its initiatives in recent years, an influx of talented new employees, and the advancement of its 2030 strategy, Bringing Discoveries to Lives.
With the appointment of Mette Eistrøm Krüger as the new SVP Corporate Affairs, overseeing HR, public affairs, communications, and strategic processes, the Foundation reinforces its organisation and paves the way forward. The aim is to continue developing the Foundation as an attractive workplace while ensuring that its role as an open and active societal player, creating long-term value for research, the life sciences ecosystem, and Danish society, remains strong.
“As a prominent enterprise foundation with extensive activities and a deep commitment to Danish society, Lundbeck Foundation as an organisation must continuously evolve. This places demands on our internal processes while offering us a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of Danish society. I am therefore delighted that Mette Eistrøm Krüger has accepted the position as SVP Corporate Affairs. Mette brings a combination of expertise, experience, and a strong personality with a keen eye for both the inner workings and external engagements of the organisation, which is of great value in the process of continuing our positive progress in the coming years. I have high expectations for the collaboration with Mette and the rest of the Foundation’s leadership team, and we look forward to welcoming her soon,” says Lene Skole, CEO of the Lundbeck Foundation.
Mette Eistrøm Krüger will begin her new position no later than 1 March 2025, joining the Foundation’s senior leadership team and reporting to Lene Skole.
A strong profile with broad experience
Mette Eistrøm Krüger, 52, lives in Rungsted with her husband. She has three adult children and holds a Master’s degree in Business Law from Aalborg University. She joins the Foundation from Telenor, where she has been employed since 2000 (with a brief period at TDC in 2007) and became part of Telenor Denmark’s executive management in 2016. Today, she has Nordic responsibility at Telenor for HR, Communications, and Public Affairs. In 2021, she was awarded the HR-award for her work in setting a clear direction and defining a strong leadership language for the company
The Lundbeck Foundation is an enterprise foundation encompassing a comprehensive range of enterprise and philanthropic activities – all united by its strong purpose, ‘Bringing Discoveries to Lives’. The Foundation is the long-term, engaged and significant owner of several international healthcare companies – Lundbeck, Falck, ALK, Ferrosan Medical Devices, Ellab and WS Audiology – and an active investor in business, science and people through its commercial investments in the financial markets, in biotech companies based on Danish research, and through philanthropic grants to science talents and programmes in Danish universities. The Foundation’s philanthropic grants amount to more than DKK 500m annually primarily focusing on the brain – including the world’s largest award for neuroscience, The Brain Prize.
