
Gender Diversity Roundtable Denmark
Bringing Denmark to the Forefront of Gender Diversity
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and UN Women Nordic Office bring together 19 Danish leaders in The Gender Diversity Roundtable (GDR), an initiative to share experiences and best practices on how to advance gender diversity in Denmark.
Leaders need gender diversity to perform, however today there are still very few female top leaders in Denmark, and companies, institutions, and organizations lose out on the value that diverse management brings.
To obtain gender diversity leaders must step-change efforts along the career ladder.
GDR is dedicated to identifying concrete and actionable steps to advance gender diversity along the career journey – from education to the executive team – with the objective to strengthen performance and promote greater diversity in management teams.
GDR is a beacon for gender diversity in Denmark and provides perspectives to influence policymakers to create the optimal environment for gender diversity in Denmark.
GDR is managed and facilitated by UN Women Nordic Office and Boston Consulting Group. BCG is supporting with related publications.
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Roundtable members
To have the broadest Impact in Danish Society, UN Women and BCG brings together in the Roundtable 23 Leaders of the Danish Private Sector, Educational Institutions and Societal Member Organizations








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Caroline Rusten
Director
UN Women Nordic Office
Caroline has been the Director of the UN Women Nordic Liaison Office since September 2018. She has been in UN Women since 2015 and before her current role, she worked as UN Women Chief Humanitarian in New York, and UN Women Country Programme Manager in Somalia. Before joining UN Women, Caroline worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the World Bank and UNDP among others. Caroline holds a PhD in Political Geography.
Mai-Britt Poulsen
Managing Director & Senior Partner, Head of LAB
Boston Consulting Group
Mai-Britt Poulsen is a Managing Director and Senior Partner, and the System Leader of the London, Amsterdam, and Brussels (L-A-B) offices. She was previously BCG's Global Chief of Staff and a member of BCG's Executive Committee and Operating Committees. She is a co-founder of the Gender Diversity Roundtable Denmark. Together with four other members, she co-authored the book 'The Queen's New Clothes' based on learnings from the GDR.
Anders Bjarklev
President
Technical University of Denmark
Anders is Dr.Techn. and President of Technical University of Denmark since 2011. Anders is Chairman of the Danish Rectors’ Conference of Universities Denmark. Anders has a research background in optical fibres and optical communication, among others.

Anders Schelde
Chief Investment Officer
MP Pension
M.Sc. Economics from Copenhagen University, MBA from Copenhagen Business School.
Anders has worked in the financial sector since 1989, as investment director for nearly a decade at Velliv (formerly Nordea Liv & Pension) and MP Pension since 2017. An active investor committed to delivering high returns on a responsible basis.

Bjarne Corydon
CEO and Editor in Chief
Dagbladet Børsen
Since 2018 Bjarne Corydon has been the CEO and Editor in Chief of the newspaper Dagbladet Børsen. Before assuming this position, he spent two years with McKinsey & Company as Global Director for their Center for Government. Prior to entering the private sector, Bjarne served as a politician for the Danish Social Democratic Party. During his approximately 20 years in politics, he has held positions such as Minister of Finance of Denmark and Chief of Staff under the Helle Thorning Schmidt administration. He holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Aarhus University.

Brian Bech Nielsen
Rector
Aarhus University
Brian Bech Nielsen took office in August 2013. As a former Dean of the largest faculty at Aarhus University, Faculty of Science and Technology, he has been part of the Senior Management Team since 2010. Prior to that, he was Head of the Department of Chemistry, the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Vice Director of the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO). Brian Bech Nielsen holds a PhD in physics and he became Professor in 2007 at the department of Physics and Astronomy.

Chris Preuss
President
Danish Youth Council
Chris Preuss was appointed President of Dansk Ungdoms Fællesråd (DUF) in June 2019. He is also a senior consultant on public affairs at Landbrug & Fødevarer and have also been a political consultant at Brintbranchen. Prior to this, he was involved with politics through the liberal youth party Venstres Ungdom. Here he held the position president. He has a bachelor’s degree in Education from UCC.

Deborah Dunsire
President & CEO
Lundbeck
Deborah Dunsire has more than 30 years of clinical, commercial, and international management experience from the biotech and pharmaceutical industry, primarily in the fields of oncology and CNS, thus bringing a breadth of scientific and business experience. Her professional and executive experience includes positions as President and CEO of XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc., FORUM Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Deborah joined Lundbeck as President & CEO in September 2018.

Ester Baiget
President and CEO
Novozymes
Ester holds a chemical engineering degree and an MBA from the University of Tarragona (Spain). Before becoming President and CEO of Novozymes she held a position as Business President for Dow’s Industrial Solutions and was a member of the executive leadership team. She is an experienced international leader with a strong track-record.
Henriette Laursen
Director
KVINFO
Henriette has been a Director of KVINFO since 2017. She is a lawyer, and started her career at the Attorney General before she became director for the Danish AIDS fund for a number of years, only interrupted by two years of posting in Vietnam. Most recently, she has been Secretary General of the Danish Youth Council.

Lasse Pilgaard
CFO
TDC
Lasse Pilgaard has been the CFO of TDC since March 2019. Before being appointed CEO he held the positions of CSO and Head of Strategy. Before joining TDC, Lasse worked at AutoButler as. Prior to this, he was Investment Manager at Creandum, Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. He has a Master’s Degree in Business and Economics from Aarhus University.

Malou Aamund
Country Director
Google Denmark
Malou is the Country Director for Google Denmark. She has previously held international leadership positions at Microsoft and IBM in Europe, EMEA and Americas. Malou was Member of Parliament for four years and acted as a spokesperson on science, technology and innovation. She holds a M.Sc. in Economics and Business.

Mette Fjord Sørensen
Director
General Confederation of Danish Industry
Mette Fjord Sørensen is Director and Head of Science, Education and Diversity at Confederation of Danish Industry. She is educated cand.scient.pol from Aarhus University, and has previous experience from the Conservative People's Party and Novo Nordisk.

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller
President
CBS
Nikolaj Malchow-Møller is Ph.D. and Professor of Economics. He has served as director of research at CBS and as head of the department and later dean at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). He established and chaired the SDU’ social science faculty’s gender equality committee. As of March 2019, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller is the president of CBS.

Nikolaj Reffstrup
Founder
GANNI
Nicolaj studied business, administration and philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, followed by an MA in information technology at IT University of Copenhagen. After graduating, he went on to hold tech roles and co-founded various companies, including Oryx Invest and Spleak Media Network Ltd. Nikolaj is the Founder of GANNI.

Per Michael Johansen
Rector
Aalborg University
Professor Per Michael Johansen has been Rector of Aalborg University since 2014. He holds a PhD in Physical Optics from Aalborg University, a DSc in Physics from the University of Copenhagen, and is the former Dean of Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark. Currently, Per Michael Johansen is Vice Chair of the Danish Rectors’ Conference.
Pernille Erenbjerg
Deputy Chair
Millicom
Pernille is the Deputy Chair of international mobile and cable operator Millicom, and in addition to this serves on the boards of Nordea and Genmab. From 2003 to 2018 Pernille held multiple leadership positions within the TDC Group, latest as Group CEO and president until December 2018. She holds a Master of Science in Business Economics from CBS (Copenhagen Business School)and is today an adjunct professor of CBS. Together with four other members, she co-authored the book 'The Queen's New Clothes' based on learnings from the GDR.
Thomas Thune Andersen
Chairman
Ørsted
Thomas is Chairman of the Board of directors of Ørsted A/S and has many years of experience from the energy sector and sits on the boards of directors of several international companies dealing in energy, logistics and distribution. Together with four other members, he co-authored the book 'The Queen's New Clothes' based on learnings from the GDR.

Tine Johansen
Chairman
The Danish Union of Journalists
Tine Johansen is the Chairman of the Danish Union of Journalists. She was educated from the Danish School of Media and Journalism in 2001, and has prior to being appointed the Vice Chairman of the Danish Union of Journalists in 2015, held numerous roles as journalist at Danish media, including e.g., Ekstra Bladet and Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR).
Alumni

Asger Ryhl
Founder
Director, Office of the Deputy Executive Director
UN Women
Mr. Ryhl started his UN career in 1993, and became Director of the UN Women Nordic Office in Copenhagen on 25 March 2013.
Prior he was a Senior Advisor in the Office of the DED/ASG in UN Women and to the ED/USG on Nordic affairs, after being the UNFPA Representative in Papua New Guinea in 2009. Before this he held roles for UNFPA, including Chief of the Nordic Office in Copenhagen and resource mobilization officer in New York.
Meetings
The Members of the Roundtable have been meeting regularly since 2017.
Friday, March 6th 2020
Boston Consulting Group, Kalvebod Brygge 24,1560 København V, Denmark
Gender Diversity Roundtable Denmark #5
Diversity in Artificial Intelligence
MAR
2020
AGENDA
08:30-08:45
08:45-08:55
08:55-09:05
09:05-09:25
09:25-09:45
09:45-09:55
09:55-10:35
10:35-10:45
Registration & breakfast
Welcome & intro
Status on diversity
Unconscious bias in AI
Member presentations
External speaker
Discussion
Way forward
Friday, March 8th 2019
UN City, Marmorvej 51, 2100 København Ø, Denmark
Gender Diversity Roundtable Denmark #4
Wake Up Denmark
MAR
2019
MAR
2018
Friday, March 8th 2018
UN City, Marmorvej 51, 2100 København Ø, Denmark
Gender Diversity Roundtable Denmark #3
Perspectives: How to Advance Gender Diversity
NOV
2017
Friday, November 10th 2017, 10:00 AM - 12:00 AM
UN City, Marmorvej 51, 2100 København Ø, Denmark
Gender Diversity Roundtable Denmark #2
From Insights to Action: Members Implementing Key Initiatives
Wednesday, June 21st, 2017, 10:30 AM - 12:30 AM
UN City, Marmorvej 51, 2100 København Ø, Denmark
Gender Diversity Roundtable Denmark #1
Experience Sharing and Perspectives from Current and Future Danish Leaders
JUN
2017
Pictures
Pictures from the Gender Diversity Roundtables
Video
Video from the Gender Diversity Roundtable #2 by BCG
Resources
Download and Access related Reports and Publications
Report, BCG 2020
Gender Diversity in AI
Report, BCG 2019
Wake Up Denmark
Report, BCG 2018
How Policies Can Drive Gender Diversity in Denmark
Report, BCG 2017
How Leaders Can Advance Gender Diversity in Denmark
Report, BCG 2017
Universities Are Key to Unlocking Diversity in Denmark
White Paper #1, BCG 2017
Leaders must Step-Change Diversity along the Career Ladder to Perform
DI Analyse 2017
Stadig flere kvinder i selskabernes bestyrelser
DI Analyse 2017
Markant flere kvinder i ledelse og bestyrelser
Report, BCG 2017
What's Working to Drive Gender Diversity in Leadership
Report, BCG 2016
Creating Value with Gender Diversity in Danish Companies
Article, BCG 2017
Women on the Move - Shaping Leaders Through Overseas Postings
Article, BCG 2017
Dispelling the Myths of the Gender “Ambition Gap”
Report, BCG 2016
The Rewards of an Engaged Female Workforce
Report, BCG 2016
Sleeping Beauty - Awakening the Slumbering Potential of Women for the German Economy
Report, BCG 2012
Shattering the Glass Ceiling - An Analytical Approach to Advancing Women into Leadership Roles
Access additional resources by BCG on gender diversity here
Experts on Gender Diversity in Denmark involved in the GDR
Nina Smith
Professor, Department of Economics and Business Economics
Aarhus University
E-mail: nsmith@econ.au.dk
Web: www.econ.au.dk
Lisbeth Odgaard Madsen
Founder and CEO
Potential Company
E-mail: lom@potentialco.dk
Web: www.potentialco.dk
Press
Latest Press Releases and News Stories
8 MAY 2019
News Article, Børsen
Det er en myte at det går godt med ligestillingen
8 MAR 2018
TV2 Interview, TV2
News segment live from GDR3 at UN City including interviews with Pernille Aamund, Karen Ellemann, Mai-Britt Poulsen, and Pernille Erenbjerg
8 MAR 2018
News Article, Børsen
Mai-Britt Poulsen: "Det er lykkedes at sætte en dagsorden, hvor virksomheder forstår værdien af mangfoldighed"
25 NOV 2017
News Article, dr.dk
Virksomheder og universiteter skal skabe flere kvindelige ledere
13 NOV 2017
News Article, Berlingske Business
Kvindekampen rykker ind i direktionslokalerne
13 OKT 2017
News Article, MetroXpress
Unge kvinder vælger topleder-uddannelserne fra
13 OKT 2017
News Article, Berlingske Business
Mænd skal være med til at vise vejen for flere kvindelige ledere
12 OKT 2017
News Article, Berlingske Business
100 kvinder på toppen
Listen omfatter GDR-medlemmerne: Mai-Britt Poulsen, Pernille Erenbjerg, Malou Aamund og Hanne Leth Andersen.
02 AUG 2017
News Article, mandagmorgen
Fortsat stort uudnyttet lederpotentiale i kvinder
10 JUL 2017
News Article, CSR.dk
FN og Boston Consulting Group: Der skal flere kvinder i ledelse
27 JUN 2017
News, DTU
DTU´s President member of UN equality initiative
26 JUN 2017
News Article, CBS
CBS and UN come together to get women in leading positions
25 JUN 2017
News Article, fyens.dk
Kvinder skal være med til at skabe den digitale fremtid
21 JUN 2017
News, DIF
Ligestilling skal hjælpe DIF med at få flere medlemmer (Danish)
13 JUN 2017
News, Copenhagen Business School
CBS går med i nyt ligestillingsinitiativ fra FN (Danish)
12 JUN 2017
News, KVINFO
FN's Gender Diversity Roundtable 21. juni (Danish)
08 JUN 2017
News Article, UN City
Nyt dansk ligestillingsinitiativ skal bane vejen for flere kvinder i ledelse (Danish)
08 JUN 2017
News Article, Altinget
Danske topchefer samles i nyt FN-ligestillings-initiativ (Danish)
08 JUN 2017
News Article, Berlingske Business
Kvindelige ledere skal findes tidligt i fødekæden (Danish)
08 JUN 2017
News Article, Dansk Journalistforbund
Nyt initiativ skal øge antallet af kvinder i topledelse – DJ deltager (Danish)
08 JUN 2017
News Article, DIF
DIF-direktør med i FN -ligestillings-initiativ (Danish)
07 JUN 2017
Press Release, GDR
Nyt dansk ligestillingsinitiativ skal bane vejen for flere kvinder i ledelse (Danish)