Danish Cultural Institute
Karina Mortensen currently serves as CFO at Dansk Kulturinstitut since January 2022. Prior experience includes the role of Head of International Finance at Danish Red Cross from October 2016 to January 2022, where responsibilities encompassed managing a team of 14 and overseeing financial operations for international partnerships. Karina was also the Senior Financial Consortium Coordinator for the MADAD project, managing a 53 million EURO grant, the largest ever received by Danish Red Cross. Previous roles include Financial Coordinator at Red Barnet, Financial Program Administrator at Folkekirkens Nødhjælp, and Financial Manager at Pentia A/S. Karina holds a degree in economics from Niels Brock.
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Danish Cultural Institute
Danish Cultural Institute is a self-governing institution. Since 1940 we have been engaged in fostering mutual understanding between people and cultures. We believe that the arts and culture are among Denmark’s most important assets. We are commited to sharing knowledge on and sympathy for the values of the Danish society. In cooperation with partners, we develop international culture and societal events, Projects and people to people contacts, that can provide mutual value and inspire. It is our mission to contribute to strenghtening Denmark’s way of handling some of the challenges of globalization. This we do by focusing on arts, culture and society within a prioritized numbers of themes: children and youth, education, science, welfare and sustainability. We also focus on developing new ways of cooperation, which stimulate innovation and co-creation. In our activities we always try to create opportunities for intercultural relations, understanding, sustainable growth and development. Our Institutes abroad are the focal points for the creation of long term cultural relations, that contribute to inspire Danish arts and culture, and strengthen the mutual learning proces, that can challenge and inspire cultural life at home as well as abroad. At the moment we have branches in China, Brazil , India, Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey. We have activities in Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus and South Korea. HQ is in Copenhagen, Denmark.