Active senior from 2013

• Follows tech-news and podcasts on AI, democracy, virtual platforms, ...
• Keeps up foreign languages , especially French.
• Experiments with writing short stories.
• Enjoys life with wife, children, grandchildren, and good friends.

Professional experience from last 20 years

ConDiv, 1994 - 2013

• Global value chains for development aid
• Creativity and innovation in business
• Facilitation, teaching, advising
• Owner and independent consultant

Development adviser, 4 years

• Africa, 2009-2013: Value chains in Mali, Morocco, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia.
• Guatemala, 2006-2009: Adviser in Danida's Regional Programme for Environment and Sustainable Development in Central America.
• Honduras, 2005-2006: Adviser in Nepenthes' programme for sustainable tourisme.

Professional experience from former years

Industry and trade, 7 years

LK A/S, J.O.Værktøj and Nøglefærdigt Institutionsbyggeri:

• Logistics, product development, organization, trade, information technology, civic engineering
• Logistics manager, managing director, systems planner, project engineer

Consultancy companies, 7 years

Jens Bisballe Planlægning and Logisys:

• Logistics, information technology and innovative processes
• Employed senior consultant

University research and teaching, 5 years

Copenhagen Business School and Technical University of Denmark:

• Research, teaching, management, development of curriculum
• Senior researcher, associate professor, head of department, external examiner

Education

• Ph.d., creativity and quality in decisions (1990)
• BA merc. in organization and strategy (1982)
• M.Sc., engineer,  operations research and statistics (1975)
• Foreign languages: English, French, Spanish

Private

• Born 1950
• Childhood in Sweden (2 years) and Jamaica (4 years)
• University study in France (1 year)
• Worked in Central Amerika (3½ years)
• Married, two grown up sons.