Jesper Møller Christensen
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
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Nationality: Danish
Date of birth: 9 June 1963
Executive Committee member since: 2019
Jesper Møller Christensen was raised in northern Jutland, and he played football at the local club FREM Skørping until the age of 19, when he took up studies to become a lawyer.
He was elected vice-chairman of the Danish club AaB in 1993, and became chairman of the club in 2000. He was elected to the Danish Football Association (DBU) board in 1998 as a representative for the leading Danish clubs. During the next six years, he also held the position of chairman of the DBU's fair play and elite development bodies. In the period between 2004 and 2014, he was twice elected as vice-president of the DBU, and was elected as president of the association in 2014.
Christensen's key values are solidarity, transparency, fellowship and respect in the work that takes place within football at international level. He was elected to the UEFA Executive Committee as a member at the Ordinary UEFA Congress in Rome in February 2019.