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 / Søren Bang Jensen
Danish Architecture Center / Kent Martinussen
Danish Authors’ Society / Sanne Udsen
Danish Crafts & Design Association /Pernille Anker Kristensen
Danish Design Center / Martin Delfer
Danish Film Institute / Tine Fischer
Dansk Folkeoplysnings Samråd / Per Paludan Hansen
Danske Skønlitterære Forfattere / Charlotte Inuk
KL – Local Government Denmark / Stine Johansen
Kulturelle Samråd i Danmark / Erik Vigsø
Ministry of Foreign Affairs / NN
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

Danish Social-Liberal Party / Søren Burcharth
Denmark Democrats / Benny Bindslev
Liberal Alliance / NN
Social People´s Party / Maria Frej
The Alternative / Sascha Faxe
The Citizens’ Party / NN
The Conservative Party / Tove Videbæk
The Danish People’s Party / Merete Dea Larsen
The Danish Social Democrats / Mogens Jensen
The Liberal Party / Flemming Damgaard Larsen
The Moderates / Lean Milo
The Unity List / Pia Weise Pedersen

Personal members

Artist Kirstine Roepstorff

Chairman Carsten Haurum (Chairman of the Board, DCI)

Chairman Christen Winther Obel

Chairman Erik Jacobsen

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

Director Rikke Øxner

Director Anne-Louise Sommer

Former CEO Birgitte Nauntofte

Former Secretary General Carsten U. Larsen

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

Professor Maria Fabricius Hansen

Professor Martin Marcussen

Principal Carsten Fenger-Grøndahl

Principal Sanne Kofod Olsen

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.