MSc in political science, a graduate diploma in business administration (management and organisation) and an MBA from Henley Business School. He is Library Director of the Copenhagen Main Library and chairman of the Danish public libraries’ e-book service.

He is responsible for Copenhagen’s library strategy. He joined the City of Copenhagen in 2013 after a career in the national government. He supervised the libraries division at the Danish Agency for Culture and before that he was head of the secretariat of Denmark’s Electronic Research Library [DEFF].

He has worked extensively on national library policy and strategies for both research and public libraries and has written numerous
reports, reviews, articles and analyses.

He was secretary for the Committee on Public Libraries in the Knowledge Society, which published its report in 2010, and is co-author of a report on a joint digital library for the Danish public libraries.