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.

Cynthia Koetsier-Beerten is the General Manager of Cisco in Denmark. Her expertise includes product and service account management, channel and inside sales, as well as finance and accounting. Previously, she held the position at Cisco Denmark of Sales Director – Global & Local Enterprise from 2018 to 2022, and Client Director for Global Enterprise Accounts from 2017 to 2018. Cynthia is a strong advocate of lifelong learning and she excels in building high-performing teams and guiding individuals to reach their full potential.

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.