Jean-Claude Juncker is a politician who is President-elect of the European Commission. He was previously the Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013. He was the longest-serving head of government of any European Union country, and one of the longest-serving democratically elected leaders in the world, by the time he left office. He was also Luxembourg's Minister for Finances from 1989 to 2009 and the first permanent President of the Eurogroup from 2005 to 2013, his tenure encompassing the height of the European financial and sovereign debt crisis. Juncker was the candidate of the European People's Party for the President of the European Commission going into the 2014 European Parliament elections, which saw the EPP win the most seats. On 27 June, the European Council officially nominated Juncker for the position, and on 15 July, the European Parliament elected him with a majority of 422 votes from a total of 729 cast. He is scheduled to succeed incumbent Jose Manuel Barroso into office in November. 

December 9th, 1954 in Redange (Age 70)