Radio host quits job at national broadcaster to dodge mandatory pensions scheme

”It’s not activism, it’s common sense,” says the radio host who no longer wants to have her savings invested by Denmark’s largest corporate pension provider. 
At Danish broadcaster DR, Iben Maria Zeuthen hosts the Danish radio program "What would Jesus have said?", among others. | Photo: Anders Rye Skjoldjensen
At Danish broadcaster DR, Iben Maria Zeuthen hosts the Danish radio program "What would Jesus have said?", among others. | Photo: Anders Rye Skjoldjensen
by mikkel holmgaard winding, translated by katrine gøthler

Radio host Iben Maria Zeuthen has quit her position at Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DR, in order to avoid its mandatory corporate pension provider PFA. This is because she believes that PFA ”subsidizes the construction of the world’s biggest oil pipeline in Uganda and Tanzania.”

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