Birte Holst Joergensen
Since September 2005, Birte Holst Jørgensen is the Managing Director of Nordic Energy Research, a Nordic research and innovation funding institution, which has been operating for 20 years under the Nordic Council of Ministers (www.nordicenergy.net). She holds a M.Sc. in Business Economics from Copenhagen Business School and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen. Ms. Holst Jørgensen is an acknowledged expert used by the EU Commission, Research Council of Norway and several research funding institutions. Prior to her affiliation at Nordic Energy Research, she was a Senior Scientist at the Systems Analysis Department at Risø National Laboratory in Denmark (www.risoe.dk).