The LEGO Foundation is managed by a Board of Directors composed of six members elected in accordance with its charter. The Board approves the strategy of the Foundation and makes decisions about how the Foundation directs its use of resources, including grants.
Furthermore, the Board also supports and supervises the organisation, making sure that the Foundation is managed appropriately and in accordance with applicable legislation and its charter. Additionally the board appoints The LEGO Foundation CEO who is responsible for the overall leadership and day-to-day management of the Foundation.
Thomas Kirk Kristiansen
Chair of the Board
Shareholder of KIRKBI A/S and representing the fourth generation of the LEGO® owner family. Chair of the Board of LEGO A/S.
Jørgen Vig Knudstorp
1st deputy Chair of the Board
Board member of LEGO A/S. Former President and CEO of the LEGO Group from 2004–2016.
Agnete Kirk Kristiansen
2nd deputy Chair of the Board
Fourth generation of the LEGO® owner family and shareholder of KIRKBI A/S. Founder of Center for ADHD S/I in Aarhus, Denmark.
Malou Aamund
Member of the Board
Malou holds a MSc in Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School. She is an experienced ex-ecutive with wide-ranging leadership experience across global technology companies coupled with experience from working as a Member of Parliament in Denmark and a range of Non-Executive positions, including at KIRKBI A/S, which she joined in 2019. Throughout her career, Malou has been working in the interface between the public and private sectors focusing on technology, education, and science and in her political career she also served as a Spokesperson for Science, Technology, and Innovation.
Elhadj As Sy
Member of the Board
Elhadj As Sy is the Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation Board, and Co-chair of the WHO/World Bank Global Pandemic Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB). Mr. Sy is also Governor at the Wellcome Trust, and a member of the Governing Board of Interpeace as well as numerous other boards and organizations. Mr. Sy has extensive experience in leadership roles in the humanitarian, health, environment, development sectors, and has previously served as the Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) ‐ the world’s largest humanitarian network. He has previously served at a senior level with UNICEF, UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and other agencies for more than 30 years.
Hilary Pennington
Independent Member of the Board
Hilary Pennington retired as Executive Vice President of the Ford Foundation, leading the Education, Creativity and Free Expression division from 2013-2017 and global programmess from 2018-2024. She co-founded Jobs for the Future and previously worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Pennington holds degrees from Yale, Oxford, and the Episcopal Divinity School.
With reference to the Danish Financial Statement Act (årsregnskabsloven § 77a, stk. 2 and BEK no. 558 01.06.2016) the Mandatory Report on Recommendation on Foundation Governance, which is approved by the Board of Directors, is published here.
The LEGO Foundation is lead by CEO Sidsel Marie Kristensen
Sidsel Marie Kristensen
Chief Executive Officer
Before taking on her role of CEO, Sidsel was General Counsel at KIRKBI A/S. She holds a Master of Law from Aarhus University and a Master in International and European Business Law from University of Leuven. Sidsel is a member of the Board of Directors in Merlin Entertainments Ltd., Koldingvej 2, Billund A/S and a number of subsidiaries in the KIRKBI Group.
The LEGO Foundation Charter
We have a full privacy policy that goes into the details. But you should know that: we keep to Danish and EU data protection regulations, including GDPR you always have the right to know what information we’re holding about you, and why.
Privacy PolicyWe should all feel safe coming to work - always. The work we do impacts vulnerable people, including children. So it’s vitally important that you tell us if someone who works here isn’t living up to our high standards of integrity. If you’ve seen or suspect illegal or unethical behaviour, report it.
Reporting unethical behaviourAccess policies, reports and other documents here
Policies
The LEGO Foundation policies are a set of principles for our way of working. We are committed to high ethical standards in our internal operations as well as when working with our partners.
Annual Reports and Sustainability Reports
In the LEGO Foundation annual reports you can find our management reviews and financial statements. Part of this is our sustainability report, which summarizes the corporate social responsibility and diversity of the Foundation
Reports on Foundation Governance
The Committee on Good Foundation Governance has prepared a set of recommendations, which the LEGO Foundation is addressing every year in connection with the annual report. The Foundation is reporting using the principle of “comply or explain” to the individual recommendations.
List of grantees
The list of grantees is part of the LEGO Foundation’s annual reporting. The list contains the pay-outs to grant activities in a specific year.
