Jytte ØlgaardJytte Ølgaard is a lawyer by profession and graduated from law school at the Universtity of Copenhagen, in 1971.
She joined the Ministry of Business and Industry in 1971 and has worked there for more than 25 years &endash; with a leave of absence for two years from 1979 to 1981 where she was employed as a credit analyst in the international division of an American bank, Mercantile Bank, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Ms. Ølgaard has been engaged in a number of different policy areas such as the Export Credit Council, stock exchange legislation, insurance law, book keeping regulation, tourism, a number of sectoral business areas like qualifying requirements for certified accountants, stock exchange brokers, hotel and restaurants, interpreters and requirements for performing business in general and administration i.e. budget and human ressources development.
Over the years, she has also been the chairperson of a number of committees whose tasks have been to prepare legislation for Parliament. In these committees, there are representatives from the major business organisations and from other ministries with related interests. Since Denmark joined the EC in 1973. Ms. Ølgaard has participated in meetings in Bruxelles preparing for directives and other kinds of EU-regulation both in the Council and the Commission. She was also the chairperson for a Council Committe preparing for EU legislation for stock exchange prospectives during the Danish presidency in the 1980s.
Since 1991, Jytte Ølgaard has been engaged in consumer policy matters, and in September 1995 joined the Danish National Consumer Agency.