Jean Charles Ellermann-Kingombe is Assistant Secretary General for Innovation, Hybrid, and Cyber. In this capacity, he is the Secretary General’s primary advisor on maintaining NATO’s innovative edge, and on all issues relating to technological challenges, cyber defence and hybrid threats and their far-reaching implications for Alliance security.
Career
2024 – Assistant Secretary General for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber (IHC), NATO
2019-24 Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister’s Office
2017-19 GCC Regional Manager, Struensee & Co.
2016-17 Danish Ambassador to Afghanistan
2013-16 Head of the Executive Secretariat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
2010-13 Press Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
2010 Deputy Head of Department, Strategic Policy Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
2007-10 Deputy Head of Department, European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
2004-07 Member of Cabinet for European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Brussels
2003-04 Spokesman for the European Commission on Development Assistance and Humanitarian Aid, Brussels
2001–03 Spokesman for the Danish EU-Presidency