36 Notable alumni of
Copenhagen Business School
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Copenhagen Business School is 1100th in the world, 385th in Europe, and 5th in Denmark by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 36 notable alumni from Copenhagen Business School sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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David Heinemeier Hansson
- Occupations
- programmerbloggerbusinesspersonwriterracing automobile driver
- Biography
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David Heinemeier Hansson is a Danish programmer and racing driver. As a programmer, he is the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki. He is also a partner at the web-based software development firm 37signals.
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Count Nikolai of Monpezat
- Occupations
- modelstudentaristocrat
- Biography
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Count Nikolai of Monpezat is a member of the Danish royal family. He is the eldest son of Prince Joachim and his first wife, Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, the eldest grandchild of Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik, and the eldest nephew of King Frederik X. He is currently sixth in the line of succession to the Danish throne. At the time of his birth, he was third, after his uncle and father.
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Jakob Ellemann-Jensen
- Occupations
- politicianjuristmilitary officer
- Biography
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Jakob Ellemann-Jensen is a Danish former politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Denmark and Minister of Defence under Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen from 2022 to 2023. He led the Venstre party from 2019 to 2023.
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Sophie Løhde
- Enrolled in Copenhagen Business School
- 2004-2007 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sophie Løhde Jacobsen is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. She has been a member of parliament since the 2007 Danish general election, and served as Minister of Health from 2015 to 2016, and Minister of Public Innovation from 2016 to 2019.
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Claus Meyer
- Occupations
- restaurateurcooknon-fiction writerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Claus Meyer is a Danish entrepreneur, cook and television host. He is often accredited as the founder of the New Nordic Cuisine philosophy.
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Søren Skou
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- business executivebusinesspersoninternational forum participant
- Biography
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Søren Skou is a Danish businessman who was the former CEO of A.P. Moller-Maersk since June 2016 until 2022.
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Jonas Deichmann
- Occupations
- writeradventurerexplorermotivational speakernon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Jonas Deichmann, born 15 April 1987 in Stuttgart, is a German author, adventurer, extreme athlete, and holder of multiple world records in cycling and endurance. Jonas has completed a triathlon around the world covering a distance of 120 long-distance triathlons.
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Finn Andersen
- Years
- 1990-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- professional gamer
- Biography
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Finn Andersen, better known as karrigan, is a Danish professional Counter-Strike 2 player and captain for FaZe Clan. He has also played for other teams including Fnatic, Team Dignitas, Team SoloMid, Astralis, Mousesports and Team Envy. Andersen was a founding member of Astralis, a player-owned team established in 2015. He began playing competitively in 2006 during the Counter-Strike 1.6 era. He is widely considered to be one of the best in-game leaders in Counter-Strike history.
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Rasmus Jarlov
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Rasmus Jarlov is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Conservative People's Party. He was elected into parliament at the 2015 Danish general election, and formerly sat from 2010 to 2011. He is a former Minister of Business Affairs.
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Claus Hjort Frederiksen
- Enrolled in Copenhagen Business School
- Studied in 1966
- Occupations
- ministerpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Claus Hjort Frederiksen is a Danish politician of the Venstre party, who served as the Danish Minister for Defence from 2016 to 2019, and as Minister for Finance from 2015 to 2016, having previously served in that position from 2009 to 2011, as member of the first Løkke Rasmussen Cabinet. From 2001 to 2009, he was Minister of Employment in the first, second, and third cabinets of Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
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Fritz Schur
- Occupations
- businesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Fritz Henrik Schur Junior is a Danish businessman with ties to both royal, business and political circles in Denmark. Fritz Schur has since 1999 been honorary consul general of Finland to Denmark.
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Jakob Engel-Schmidt
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Jakob Engel-Schmidt is a Danish politician and Member of the Folketing from the Moderates. Since 15 December 2022 he has been minister for culture in the Frederiksen II Cabinet.
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Ulla Tørnæs
- Enrolled in Copenhagen Business School
- Studied in 1985-1988
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ulla Pedersen Tørnæs is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Liberal Party. She previously sat in parliament from 1994 to 2014, and served as member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2016. She served as Minister for Development Cooperation from 2016 to 2019, Minister of Higher Education and Science in 2016, Minister of Development Cooperation from 2005 to 2010 and Minister of Education from 2001 to 2005.
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Pernille Weiss
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- self-employmentnursepoliticianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Pernille Weiss is a Danish politician, and businesswoman who was elected as a Conservative People's Party (part of the EPP Group) Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2019 European parliamentary election in Denmark. She is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Archimed, a healthcare and architectural consultancy.
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Aili Keskitalo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Aili Keskitalo is a Norwegian Sami politician representing the Norwegian Sámi Association (NSR), who has served as the president of the Sami Parliament for three terms, from 2005 to 2007, 2013 to 2016 and 2017 to 2021.
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Pál Joensen
- Years
- 1990-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Pál Joensen is a Faroese elite swimmer. He was born in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. He has won World and European Championship medals. His bronze medal in the men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Istanbul was the first medal won by a Faroese swimmer at the World Aquatic Championships.
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Lars Rebien Sørensen
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- managerbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
- Biography
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Lars Rebien Sørensen is a Danish businessman and former CEO of the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk and current chairman of the board at the Novo Nordisk Foundation (from 2018) and Novo Holdings A/S.
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Gerhard Heiberg
- Occupations
- managersiviløkonomsports executive
- Biography
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Jens Gerhard Heiberg is a Norwegian industrialist who was head of the Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee (LOOC) and member of the International Olympic Committee.
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Bergur Løkke Rasmussen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bergur Løkke Rasmussen is an Danish politician who serves as a Member of the European Parliament for Moderates, the party he switched to in March 2023, away from Venstre. He is the son of former Prime Minister and current Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lars Løkke Rasmussen
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Lars Kolind
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- writerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Lars Kolind is a Danish businessman. Kolind holds an M.Sc. in Mathematics from Aarhus University from 1972 and a B.Comm. from the Copenhagen Business School from 1977. He is adjunct professor of leadership and strategy at Aarhus University Business School (Aarhus School of Business) since 2000. He serves as Detao Master of Leadership and Strategy since 2012.
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Britt Bager
- Enrolled in Copenhagen Business School
- 2010-2013 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- flight attendantpolitician
- Biography
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Britt Bager is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Conservative People's Party political party. She was elected into the Folketing in the 2015 Danish general election for the Venstre political party, but switched to the Conservative People's Party in 2021.
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Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen
- Enrolled in Copenhagen Business School
- In 2015 graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- politicianconsultant
- Biography
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Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He is currently the Auditor General of Norway since 2022. He was a parliamentary representative for Finnmark from 1985 to 2009. He served as Minister of Fisheries from 1996 to 1997 and Minister of Finance from 2000 to 2001 in the first cabinet Stoltenberg. Pedersen was Chief of Staff at the Office of the Prime Minister and a member of the Cabinet from 2006 to 2013. From 2015 to 2020 he was the CEO at Norwegian Oil and Gas.
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Tarja Cronberg
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tarja Cronberg is a Finnish Green League politician who served as a member of the European Parliament from 2011 until 2014. Cronberg was Member of the Finnish Parliament 2003–2007. She chaired her party from 2005 until 2009 and was the Minister of Labour in the Finnish government from 2007 to 2009 as part of Matti Vanhanen's second cabinet.
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Lise Haavik
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Lise Haavik is a Norwegian-Danish singer, best known for representing Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest in Bergen, Norway in 1986. She is also well-known domestically for her partnership in the duo Trax with John Hatting, her ex-husband.
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Henrik Dahl
- Enrolled in Copenhagen Business School
- 1990-1993 graduated with Danish PhD
- Occupations
- sociologistpolitician
- Biography
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Johan Henrik Dahl is a Danish author and politician who since 2015 has been a member of the Folketing for the Liberal Alliance.
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Lene Børglum
- Occupations
- film producer
- Biography
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Lene Børglum is a Danish film producer. Børglum was one of the key executives and co-owners of Zentropa from its early start in 1992 and until 2007.
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Soulaima Gourani
- Occupations
- businesspersonacademicinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Soulaima Gourani is a Danish Moroccan CEO, corporate advisor and writer who lives in Palo Alto, California.
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Morten Dahlin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Morten Dahlin is a Danish politician who serves a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. He was elected into parliament at the 2019 Danish general election.
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Lene Andersen
- Occupations
- writerpublisherciviløkonom
- Biography
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Lene Rachel Andersen is a Danish author, economist, futurist, and philosopher. She was born and raised in Taastrup, a suburb west of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her first books formed the series Baade-Og. her books in English are The Nordic Secret (2017), Metamodernity (2019), Bildung (2020), What is Bildung? (2021, online), and Libertism (2022). In 2018, Andersen co-founded the Copenhagen based think-tank Nordic Bildung and the folk-Bildung association Fremvirke. In 2019, she was the main initiator of European Bildung Day and in 2020 the co-founder of the European Bildung Network. Since January 2019, Andersen has been a member of the Club of Rome.
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Jørgen Buhl Rasmussen
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- international forum participantbusinessperson
- Biography
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Jørgen Buhl Rasmussen is a Danish businessman and former Chief Executive of the Danish multi-national brewing company Carlsberg Group (Carlsberg A/S), based in Copenhagen (native København) in Denmark. Carlsberg is the name of a district of Copenhagen. The main shareholder of Carlsberg is the Carlsberg Foundation.
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Erik Must
- Enrolled in Copenhagen Business School
- Graduated with siviløkonom
- Occupations
- investor
- Biography
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Erik Must is a Norwegian stock broker and investor. He was born in Trondheim, a son of banker Arne Bernhoft Must and Svanhild Synnøve Svendsen. He established the investment company Avanse Forvaltning along with Kjell Christian Ulrichsen, and later became owner of Fondsfinans. He is a significant investor in Norwegian media companies, controlling large parts of the publishing house Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, as well as the newspapers Dagens Næringsliv and Adresseavisen. He is also a significant owner of the energy company Arendals Fossekompani.
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Martin Roll
- Occupations
- authorbusinessperson
- Biography
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Martin Roll is a Danish author, brand strategist and management consultant. Roll appears regularly in global television and print media. He holds an MBA from INSEAD where he is a Distinguished Fellow and an Entrepreneur in Residence. Roll's first book, Asian Brand Strategy, was named one of the "Best Business Books: Marketing" in 2006 by Strategy+Business magazine. He is the founder CEO of Martin Roll Company, an advisory firm based in Singapore. He advises Fortune 500 companies, Asian firms, family-owned businesses and also served as a senior advisor to McKinsey & Company.
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John Petersson
- Occupations
- functionaryaccountant
- Biography
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John Petersson is president of the European Paralympic Committee and a former swimmer from Denmark. He is also one of the 12 members of the International Paralympic Committee and he has been a member of the Danish Handicap-Federal Board of Directors since 2000. Petersson is an accountant who studied at Copenhagen Business School.
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Birgitte Qvist-Sørensen
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Birgitte Qvist-Sørensen is a Danish theologist who since 2014 has been serving as the General Secretary of DanChurchAid. In 2018 she was elected Moderator of ACT Alliance - a global alliance of 146 churches and related organisations working together in over 120 countries to create positive and sustainable change in the lives of poor and marginalized people.
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Agnar Höskuldsson
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Dr. Agnar Höskuldsson is a Danish scientist who specializes in the field of chemometrics. He was formerly an associate professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He was awarded the Herman Wold gold medal for his contribution to chemometrics in 1997 and over the span of his career he has published over 30 scientific papers and is credited with over 2000 scientific citations.
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Andreas Kjær
- Occupations
- researcher
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Andreas Kjær is a Danish physician-scientist and European Research Council (ERC) advanced grantee. He is professor at the University of Copenhagen and chief physician at Rigshospitalet, the National University Hospital of Denmark. He is board certified in Nuclear Medicine and his research is focused on molecular imaging with PET and PET/MRI and targeted radionuclide therapies (theranostics) in cancer. His achievements include development of several new PET tracers that have reached first-in-human clinical use. He has published more than 400 peer-review articles, filed 10 patents, supervised more than 40 PhD students and received numerous prestigious scientific awards over the years. He is a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences
