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Jens Lundsgaard
OECD
Deputy Director – OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI)
Description
Since 1 October 2022, Jens Lundsgaard is the Deputy Director of the OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) where he helps oversee OECD’s work on digital and technology policy, productivity, science and innovation – not least to enable an economy-wide climate transition. From 2011 to 2017, he served as Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Business and Growth in Denmark, leading the preparation of reforms to promote productivity and sustainable growth including in sectors such as energy, water, food, life science and urban economics. From 2001 to 2011, Jens worked at the OECD – as Deputy Head of Division in the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, as Head of the Sweden and Denmark Unit in the Economics Department, and as an economist on public finance and health. A Danish national, Jens holds an Economics Degree from the University of Aarhus in Denmark.
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