Effective 1 June 2012, Ulrik Blinkenberg will become the new managing director for the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
The Institute’s present interim managing director, Henrik Persson, and interim director, Finn Ramstad, will return to their positions as futurists.
Ulrik Blinkenberg is 47 years old and is trained as a lawyer. He previously served as director of development at Teres Medical Group. Ulrik Blinkenberg has extensive management experience and has with worked strategy, innovation and corporate development in Denmark and internationally. Ulrik Blinkenberg is founder of Copenhagen Concept, which assists smaller start-up companies. He is involved in several business networks, including the Danish Society for Company Management, all with a focus on future challenges for business and society.
Ulrik Blinkenberg’s management qualifications, great interest in futures studies, and wide network combined with concrete experience as entrepreneur and business developer gives him a unique profile that well matches the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. Ulrik Blinkenberg expresses that he is looking forward to deepen Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies’s international outreach and to ensure members and customers that the Institute continues providing inspiring visions of the future.
The board and the employees bids Ulrik Blinkenberg welcome as managing director of the Institute.
Inquiries can be directed to:
Managing director
Ulrik Blinkenberg, ub@cifs.dk, Tel. +45 4025 1964
Chairman of the Board
Karl Iver Dahl-Madsen, kid@cifs.dk, Tel. +45 2963 8342
