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 / Katya Sander
Dansk Arkitektur Center / Kent Martinussen
Dansk Design Center / Christian Bason
Dansk Folkeoplysnings Samråd / Vibeke Sonntag Larsen
Dansk Forfatterforening / Sanne Udsen
Dansk Kunstnerråd / Jørgen Thorup
Danske Kunsthåndværkere & Designere / Pernille Anker Kristensen
Danske Skønlitterære Forfattere / Charlotte Inuk
Det Danske Filminstitut / Claus Ladegaard
Det Kgl. Bibliotek / Bette Thomas
Det Kgl. Danske Musikkonservatorium / Marianne Løkke Jakobsen
Det Kgl. Teater / Annette Berner
Folmer Wisti Fonden for International Forståelse / Karsten Fledelius
Folkehøjskolernes Forening i Danmark / Søren Winther Larsen
Grundtvig Centeret / Michael Schelde
Kommunernes Landsforening / Laila Kildesgaard
Kulturelle Samråd i Danmark / Bente von Schindel
Nationalmuseet / Jesper Stub Johnsen
Statens Museum for Kunst / Mikkel Bogh
Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriet / Pernille Ulrich
Udenrigsministeriet / Christian Wegener
VisitDenmark / Flemming Bruhn

Representatives of Political Parties

The Danish Social Democrats / Troels Ravn
The Conservative Party / Tove Videbæk
The Liberal Party / Ester Larsen
Danish Social-Liberal Party / Mette Annelie Rasmussen
Social People´s Party / Maria Frej
The Unity List / Pia Weise Pedersen
The Danish People’s Party / Birthe Skaarup

Liberal Alliance / NN

The New Right / Jesper Melander Hammer

Alternativet / NN

Personal members

Executive Director Tine Smedegaard Andersen

Executive Secretary Linda Ankerstjerne

Director Anne Boukris

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

Associate Professor, Ph.D. Maria Fabricius Hansen

Theatre Director Emmet Feigenberg

Publisher, CEO Carsten Fenger-Grøndahl

Chairman Carsten Haurum (Chairman of the Board, DCI)

General Manager Carsten Holst

Chairman Erik Jacobsen

Attorney Peter Lambert

Former Secretary General Carsten U. Larsen

Professor, architect Bo Linnemann

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

Director Ulla Tofte

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

Generel Manager Christine Wiberg-Lyng

CEO Katia Knipschildt Østergaard Neumann

Director Rikke Øxner

Elected by staff

Anders Hentze, Country Director, Brazil
Olaf Gerlach-Hansen, Senior 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.