Birgitte Nielsen was born in Aarhus,but her parents moved to Copenhagen when she was only three years old. she was a very successful student. Her favourite subjects were Physics and Maths.
In face,she was always very good with numbers,maybe because her father worked in a bank and her mother was a computer programmer. At the age of 18,Birgitte wrote a book called FORTRAN for Beginners. The students liked it s lot and said it was better than the course book!
After secondary school,she went to Dublin for a few years, where she did an MBA.