Cynthia Brown is the Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, where she oversees the Mission’s press and cultural programming and public engagement. Cynthia Brown began her career with the U.S. Department of State in 2001. Her most recent assignment was as an Assessor with the State Department’s Board of Examiners. Her overseas assignments include Public Diplomacy Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Cape Town, South Africa and Deputy Spokesperson at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. Cynthia Brown also served in Maputo, Mozambique and São Paulo, Brazil. Cynthia is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine and holds a Master in International Management from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, where she specialized in marketing and Latin American studies.

Phillip Assis is Public Diplomacy Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen and will in this position also be the Treasurer of Fulbright Denmark.  Prior postings have included the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan; the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia; a Public Diplomacy Desk Officer in the State Department’s Near Eastern Affairs bureau; posting in Karachi, Pakistan; the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See (Vatican); Georgetown, Guyana (South America); and Doha, Qatar. Prior to the Foreign Service, Phillip Assis spent a decade managing U.S. Government-funded international exchanges between American and African electric power utilities.  He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Benin (West Africa), and worked as a paralegal at a corporate law firm in Chicago.  Phillip Assis holds an M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Amy Hebert is the Chief Executive Officer of Arcadia eFuels since August 2021 and a supervisory board member of IMCD since June 2020. She served as Chief Commercial Officer at Haldor Topsøe from 2018 to August 2021 and as Vice President of Europe Region and Vice President Global Sales Acetyl Chain at Celanese Corporation from 2014-2017. During her assignment at Celanese Corporation, she was responsible for the creation of a principal operating company. At Albemarle Corporation, she led the catalyst business as Vice President and Executive Officer, with overall responsibilities including creating and executing long-term business strategies and managing its financial performance. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering, and minor in French from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Katherine Richardson is Professor of Biological Oceanography and Leader of the Sustainability Science Centre at the University of Copenhagen. Her research centers on how changes in climate and biodiversity in the ocean interact to influence the global carbon cycle and how humans are impacting the Earth System. Katherine Richardson is also a Principle Investigator in the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework aiming to identify a safe operating space for humanity in relation to its perturbation of the global environment. She is a member of the Danish Council on Climate Change as well as UN’s Scientific Panel to draft the 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report.