Luc Frieden
Prime Minister of Luxembourg
Luc Frieden was appointed Prime Minister of Luxembourg on November 17th, 2023 following the October parliamentary elections. He is leading a coalition government between his party, the Christian Democrats (CSV/EPP) and the liberals (DP/Renew Europe).
For most of his professional career, from 1998 to 2013, Luc Frieden was a cabinet minister in the Luxembourg Government. He served as Minister of Justice, Minister of Defense, as well as Minister of Finance. In 2013, Luc Frieden, as Minister of Finance, acted as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the IMF and the World Bank.
Prior to his appointment as Prime Minister, he served among others from 2016 to 2023 as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL) S.A., Luxembourg’s oldest bank, and was a member of Board of Directors of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Luc Frieden is also a former President of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce and former President of Eurochambres, the European federation of chambers of commerce and industry.
Luc Frieden was a qualified lawyer (avocat à la Cour) and a partner with one of the largest Luxembourg law firms, where he advised on international corporate and banking matters. Luc Frieden was visiting professor in business law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and has published numerous articles on legal and political topics. He is the co-author of the book Europa 5.0 on economic growth in Europe.
Luc Frieden graduated in law from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and holds LLM degrees from the University of Cambridge (LLM – Comparative Law) and Harvard Law School (LLM). He speaks English, French, German and Luxembourgish fluently.
