The Council

The Council of Danish Cultural Institute

Danish Cultural Institute’s supreme authority is the council, which consists of up to 60 representatives from Danish institutions and personal members.

Representatives of Danish Institutions

Center for Grundtvig Studies /Katrine Frøkjær Baunvig
Council of Danish Artists / Anne-Mette Wehmüller
Danish Architecture Center / Kent Martinussen
Danish Authors’ Society / Sanne Udsen
Danish Crafts & Design Association /Pernille Anker Kristensen
Danish Design Center / Christian Bason
Danish Film Institute / Tine Fischer
Dansk Folkeoplysnings Samråd / Natacha Holst Hansen
Danske Skønlitterære Forfattere / Charlotte Inuk
KL – Local Government Denmark / Stine Johansen
Kulturelle Samråd i Danmark / Bente von Schindel
Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Christine Pii Hansen
Ministry of Higher Education and Science /Pernille Ulrich
National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) / Astrid la Cour
National Museum of Denmark / Lars Højer
The Association of Folk High Schools in Denmark / Søren Launbjerg
The Folmer Wisti Foundation for International Understanding / Lise Bach Hansen
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts / Claus Peder Pedersen
The Royal Danish Academy of Music / Marianne Løkke Jakobsen
The Royal Danish Library / Pernille Schütz
The Royal Theatre / Annette Berner
VisitDenmark / Flemming Bruhn

Representatives of Political Parties

The Danish Social Democrats / Mogens Jensen
The Conservative Party / Tove Videbæk
The Liberal Party / Ester Larsen
Danish Social-Liberal Party / Søren Burcharth
Social People´s Party / Maria Frej
The Unity List / Pia Weise Pedersen
The Danish People’s Party / Merete Dea Larsen
Liberal Alliance / NN
The New Right / Jesper Melander Hammer
Alternativet / Sascha Faxe
Denmark Democrats / Benny Bindslev
The Moderates / Lean Milo

Personal members

Artist Kirstine Roepstorff

Board member and former CEO Birgitte Nauntofte

Chairman Carsten Haurum (Chairman of the Board, DCI)

Chairman Christen Winther Obel

Chairman Erik Jacobsen

Principal Sanne Kofod Olsen

Director and Former Lord Chamberlain for H.M. The Queen of Denmark, Michael Ehrenreich

Director Rikke Øxner

Director Anne-Louise Sommer

Former Secretary General Carsten U. Larsen

Generel Manager Christine Wiberg-Lyng

Member of Parliament Flemming Møller Mortensen (Deputy Chairman of the Board, DCI)

Professor Maria Fabricius Hansen

Professor Martin Marcussen

Publisher, CEO Carsten Fenger-Grøndahl

Elected by staff

Anders Hentze, Country Director, Brazil
Olaf Gerlach-Hansen, Strategic Advisor, HQ in Copenhagen

Do you want to know more?

If you want to know more about Danish Cultural Institutes projects and activities, you can read more here.

Every year we publish an Annual Report, if you wish to know more about this, you can read more here.