I don't understand how someone so young is made responsible for such things. They'll have possibly never even managed 5 people, let alone large organizations. She's a Associate Law prof barely out of school.<p>If they are 'brilliant' - that's great - then the should be senior advisors to the Head of the Commission, not Head of the Commission.<p>We don't want theoretical ideologues in those kinds of positions.<p>We ended up with companies like Facebook partly because we put 'really young people in enormous positions of power'.<p>These kinds of jobs is also as much about politics, people, relationships and 'knowing the system' as they are 'being brilliant'.<p>At my age, I'm keenly aware at how I was not ready for a whole bunch of things 10 years ago. Experience is real, just just 'an age'.<p>Edit: responding to the commentor below, yes thanks I should have added, at age 32 you're not tangled up in a web of politics. Also what's hard to describe is that the wager and risk becomes much great as you go on. At 32, you have your life ahead of you, you can burn political capital. At 50, you have to absolutely be making sure you're either 1) keeping your job a long time or 2) making a major transition, enabled by doing favours, political things etc. - you have your retirement, a spouse and 3 kids all going to Uni to worry about. That mental state is an advantage. But again, the skills you start to gain after age 32 matter a lot and that someone who's brilliant like this is much better able to help as a senior adviser to someone with the organizational political skills.