Lisbeth Malene Zornig Andersen (born February 12, 1968) is a Danish economist, activist, author, and former chair of the Danish Children's Council.
Her focus is on marginalized people, especially children.
Lisbeth Zornig Andersen became famous in Denmark after the documentary My childhood in hell (original title: Min barndom i helvede), depicting her childhood in a lower-class family where she was affected by, among others, sexual abuse.
The documentary followed her autobiography Zornig – Anger is my middle name (original title: Zornig – Vrede er mit mellemnavn).
Lisbeth Zornig Andersen is the founder of Huset Zornig, a socioeconomic business working to renew and improve the efforts towards society's most marginalized people.
She is chair of the think tank Social Innovations Forum and the founder of the Children's IT-foundation, which provides computers to children placed in out-of-home care.
She is the former CEO of the socioeconomic business Specialisterne, which employs people with Asperger Syndrome as IT testers.
She has been a board member and ambassador for a number of Danish organizations and institutions, for example the Danish IT University and Danish Red Cross.
She has provided strategic council to foundations, institutions, and public authorities.