Areas of responsibility of the Executive Board

As of 2 July 2025.

Overall responsibility for the entire University group, including

  • Internal and external communication
  • Organizational development and remit
  • University policy matters

Line responsibilities

  • Heads of Departments
  • Provost, University Director, Deans and Senior Vice Presidents
  • Office of the President
  • Director of Office for Policy and Relations
  • Director of Office for Communication and Media

Specific areas of responsibility

  • Board of Governors and Chair and Board of Representatives
  • Academic Council (with Dean of Sustainability, Diversity, Inclusion and Talent)
  • Cooperation and Joint Consultation Committee (with University Director)
  • Corporate Work Environmental Committee (with Head of Department)
  • Appointment of professors
  • Professor interviews (with Dean of Sustainability, Diversity, Inclusion and Talent)
  • Development of university alliances
  • Development goals and measures (UMV) and associated processes (with Executive Board)

Special relations

  • Campus Municipalities
  • Danish Universities (DU)
  • The Danish Society of Engineers, IDA
  • Scholarship and foundation boards
  • Ministers and ambassadors
  • PF (student union) (with University Director and Dean of Studies and Student Affairs)

Other

  • University Leadership and Management Forum meetings and seminars
  • DTU's gold medal 

Line responsibilities

  • Directors of DTU Nanolab, DTU Offshore, DTU Biosustain, NNF Bright
  • Director of Corporate HR

Special responsibilities

  • Executive Board meetings (agenda, etc.)
  • Departments' budget and action plans (with University Director)
  • Departments’ annual reports (with University Director)
  • Professional demarcation between departments
  • Research evaluations of departments
  • EU research programmes (Horizon Europe and other instruments)
  • Coordination of input to Danish research funds
  • Coordination and quality optimisation of specific research applications
  • Relationship care in relation to major foundations (with President and other Executive Board members)
  • The research data network and open science, bibliometric data and ratings
  • Dr.Techn. cases and honorary doctors
  • Recommendations for scientific awards and honours
  • ESS MaX IV (with Head of DTU Physics)
  • Ørsted lectures
  • Ørsted postdoc
  • Research integrity
  • Steering committee Innovation District Copenhagen
  • Research infrastructure (DTU White paper, NUFI (Vice-Chairman), ESFRI)
  • Excellent research, innovation and infrastructure
  • Guidelines and security in relation to international co-operation (URIS, FIKS)
  • Security committee (with University Director)
  • Commemoration Day and artistic events (incl. the 200th anniversary celebrations)
  • Research-based advice
    • Including framework agreements with competent ministries (public sector consultancy)
    • Development of DTU's international advice giving

Special relations

  • Danish Universities (DU) – Research policy committee (chairman) and committee for research-based advice
  • Collaboration with the Armed Forces and defence industry
  • Cross-cutting research centres and infrastructures: 3DIM, QIM, Danfix, DANMAX, Security DTU
  • Greater Copenhagen Health Science Partners (GCHSP)
  • Villum Civil Engineering (Chair person)
  • Copenhagen University Hospital (KUH – observer)

Other

  • DFIR
  • The Danish Council of Ethics (Chairman)
  • A.N.Neergaards Fond

General responsibility for group-wide technical and administrative matters.

Line responsibilities

  • Director of IT Service
  • Director of Office for Finance and Accounting
  • Director of Campus Service

Specific areas of responsibility

  • Board, DTU Science Park A/S
  • Board, Dianova A/S
  • Board, DeIC
  • Provision of strategic programme resources in relation to the competent authorities
  • International Housing Foundation (Boligfonden) DTU and underlying companies
  • Construction projects and maintenance
  • Financial management and financial statements
  • Financing and liquidity management
  • Insurance matters
  • Department budgets and action plans (with Provost)
  • Annual reporting by departments (with Provost)
  • Capital ratio
  • Emergency preparedness
  • IT and physical security
  • Security committee (with Provost) Information and IT support for the organization
  • Public/Legal part of Law
  • DTU Excellenceprogram (basis education accreditation basis/FBR process)
  • Meetings of the KAD Group

Special relations

  • PF (student union) (the student association) (with the President and Dean of Studies and Student Affairs)

Other

  • Scholarship and foundation boards
  • University Heads of Departments Committee (UDU), Universities Denmark
  • Chair of the ØSS co-operation
  • Programme responsibility New SIS programme
  • DEIC
 

Specific areas of responsibility

  • Strategy 2020–2025: Sustainability
  • DTU as a role model for universities on sustainability
  • Sustainability report
  • Executive Board responsibility for DTU Centre for Absolute Sustainability
  • PhD area
  • The PhD reception
  • PhD education
  • Recruitment of PhD students

Special relations

  • Board, DFM A/S

Organisational tasks

  • Talent and career development
  • Diversity and Inclusion – Chairperson i DTU DEI Community
  • Member of the Danish Universities' Diversity Forum
  • Academic Council
  • Professor interviews and process management (with President)
  • Board, ISCN
  • CfAB steering committee
  • MADE
  • Food cluster board incl. The Innomission AgriFoodTure
  • Danish Energy Cluster
  • Nuclear Energy Technology DTU
  • DARA – Interdisciplinary PhD programmes across the country, SDU-project manager
  • MHI (Tine Rask Licht, NNF-project)
General responsibility for educations and study environment.

Line responsibilities

  • Vice Dean
  • Director of AUS, Office for Study Programmes and Student Affairs
  • Director of DTU Admission course

Specific areas of responsibility

  • DTU Strategy 2020–2025: Europe’s best engineering programmes
  • Focus area #2: The future of university education and teaching
  • Incl. Digital Twin University
  • Institutional accreditation
  • Education, including study management, study start and welcome and graduation receptions
  • Bachelor programmes (Technical Science and Bachelor of Engineering)
  • Master's programmes, incl. Business Master's programmes
  • Part-time and continuing education activities (approved programmes)
  • Study environment
  • Business readiness and career counselling
  • Employer Panel
  • Cross-cutting education committees (DUU and CUU)
  • Meetings of the Presidency, department board of studies
  • Pedagogical and didactic development
  • Blue Dot
  • Green Challenge
  • Roskilde Festival

Special relations

  • The Committee on Educational Policy of the Rector's College (RUP)
  • PF (the student association) (with President and University Director)
  • Other student organisations
  • DTU Sport
  • The dormitories and the social housing area
  • Secondary School (STX, HTX, EUX and HHX, professional consultants and Ministry of Education)
  • Examination presidencies
  • The Board of Governors of ASTRA—nature, engineering and health learning hub
  • European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)
  • TEK/NAT dean board
  • Engineering Programmes Council
  • Engineer the Future

Other

  • Engineer the Future (board member on behalf of IUS)
  • TEC Technical Education Copenhagen (board member)
  • Egedal Gymnasium og HF (chair of the board)
  • Scholarship and foundation boards
  • Copenhagen Education Council
  • Capital Region of Denmark Education Committee
General responsibility for corporate tasks in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Line responsibilities

  • Director of AFRI, Office for Research, Consultancy and Innovation
  • Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship

Specific areas of responsibility

  • DTU Strategy 2020–2025: Digitization
  • TUH Board member
  • Innovation District Copenhagen
  • Board, Bioneer A/S
  • Board, Dianova A/S
  • Board, Preseed Ventures A/S
  • Board, DTU Science Park A/S
  • Entrepreneurship, patents and start-ups—including legal issues
  • DTU Startup Day
  • Sector promotion
  • Proof of Concept Board
  • Strategic Business Alliances, Corporate Partnerships, Talent Partner
  • Student innovation (in cooperation with Deans of Studies)
  • Innovation Policy Committee, DU

Line responsibilities

  • Director of DTU Learn for Life

Specific areas of responsibility

  • Internationalization
    • International relations and strategic collaborations
    • SDC in Beijing (JFH is on the board)
    • EuroTech  
    • Nordic5Tech 
    • Copenhagen EU Office (previously CREO DK)
    • International agreements regarding students (and faculty with heads of departments)
    • Greater Copenhagen EU Office
  • Life Long Learning
  • Cross departmental center: Maritime DTU, Quantum DTU, Arctic DTU

DTU's presence in the Danish Realm, including

  • DTU in all of Denmark, on the Faroe Islands and in Greenland
  • Recruitment from across Denmark and abroad
  • Recruitment for DTU's education programmes in Denmark
  • Political matters at the local and regional level, including specifically all campus municipalities
  • DTU Alumni
  • DTU Merchandise

Special relations

  • DTU's relations with the Danish Realm, including the Government of Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) and the Faroese Parliament
  • DTEC with heads of departments (green technology collaboration with Total Energies)
  • The Royal Academy. Partnership between the Academy and DTU, including research, education and co-operation
  • Trade associations
  • Copenhagen Business Council
Updated 16 december 2025