Niels Christian Nielsen
Chief Technical Officer
Engineering
NIL Technology
Denmark
Biography
Niels Christian Nielsen has throughout his career been an executive in knowledge-based businesses. Based in San Francisco and Copenhagen, he works today as a board member in more than 25 American and European companies, including 10 as chairman. Danish boards include 2M Invest (chairman), Unimerco, Codan, Zylinc and Jyllands Posten. He created and was executive director of Catenas Inc, and, before that member of the Executive Board of the Danish Technological Institute through the 1990s. He has helped develop and implement major strategic projects worldwide, often in public-private cooperation, and he has advised governments on growth, innovation and competitiveness in Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, USA, Canada and Turkey. He is a lecturer and co-author of books on networking, knowledge economy, innovation, education and management. He has a Master in Philosophy, is Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley and Honorary Professor at Copenhagen Business School.
Research Interest
Engineering
