Katarina Ammitzbøll

Until the national election in 2019, Katarina Ammitzboell was senior manager for ‘sustainability strategy & shared value’, at A.P. Møller Mærsk and in charge of responsible ship recycling, global food loss, humanitarian partnerships through the Logistics Emergency Team with the World Food Programme and combatting plastics in oceans. She was employed with Deloitte working on enterprise risk management as sustainability as part of a strategy to change to the private sector after having worked with international organisations and governmental affairs in more then 20 years.  

Katarina Ammitzbøll is specialized in conflict resolution, peacebuilding and democratic state-building. She has been a UN-staff member for seven years and had different assignments in several countries including Egypt, New York, East Timor and as assistant country director for UNDP, Afghanistan responsible for a programme portfolio of > US 200 million. She worked as a special advisor with the EU, NATO and NGOs in Southern African and Central Asia. She returned to home country Denmark and became a career diplomat until she moved on to the private sector. Her broad experience have provided her with a deep organisational understanding and experience with fragile states, security-issues, international policy making, cultural knowledge and execution of large scale programmes in complex operational environments. She has undertaken research at the think tanks NUPI, Oslo and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. Katarina is trained as conflict resolution and mediation expert and a member of the Nordic Women in Mediation & Conflict Resolution. Katarina gives regularly lectures and public presentations on peacebuilding and international conflict resolution as well as sustainability. She holds a Master of Law in International Development, LLM in human rights, international humanitarian law, political Islam and Islamic jurisprudence, University of Warwick, United Kingdom and a Master of Science in International Development Studies & Public Sector Economics from Roskilde University, Denmark