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

Akademiet for de Skønne Kunster / Claus Peder Pedersen
Dansk Arkitektur Center / Kent Martinussen
Dansk Design Center / Christian Bason
Dansk Folkeoplysnings Samråd / Natacha Holst Hansen
Dansk Forfatterforening / Sanne Udsen
Dansk Kunstnerråd / Anne-Mette Wehmüller og Nis Rømer
Danske Kunsthåndværkere & Designere / Pernille Anker Kristensen
Danske Skønlitterære Forfattere / Charlotte Inuk
Det Danske Filminstitut / Claus Ladegaard
Det Kgl. Bibliotek / Pernille Schütz
Det Kgl. Danske Musikkonservatorium / Marianne Løkke Jakobsen
Det Kgl. Teater / Annette Berner
Folmer Wisti Fonden for International Forståelse / Charlotte Flindt Pedersen
Folkehøjskolernes Forening i Danmark / Søren Launbjerg
Grundtvig Centeret / Katrine  Frøkjær Baunvig
Kommunernes Landsforening / Laila Kildesgaard
Kulturelle Samråd i Danmark / Bente von Schindel
Nationalmuseet / Lars Højer
Statens Museum for Kunst / Astrid La Cour
Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriet / Pernille Ulrich
Udenrigsministeriet / Christine Pii Hansen
VisitDenmark / Flemming Bruhn

Representatives of Political Parties

The Danish Social Democrats / NN
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 / ‘NN

Liberal Alliance / NN

The New Right / Jesper Melander Hammer

Alternativet / NN

Denmark Democrats / NN

The Moderates / NN

Personal members

Deputy Director Tine Smedegaard Andersen

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

Professor Maria Fabricius Hansen

Publisher, CEO Carsten Fenger-Grøndahl

Chairman Carsten Haurum (Chairman of the Board, DCI)

Chairman Erik Jacobsen

Former Secretary General Carsten U. Larsen

Professor Martin Marcussen

Board member and former CEO Birgitte Nauntofte

Chairman Christen Winther Obel

Dean Sanne Kofod Olsen

Artist Kirstine Roepstorff

Director Anne-Louise Sommer

Publisher, CEO Anette Wad (Deputy Chairman of the Board, DCI)

Generel Manager Christine Wiberg-Lyng

Director Rikke Øxner

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.