Nikolaj is the Chief AI Advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, working at the Office of Denmark’s Tech Ambassador to assist Denmark in navigating a new geopolitical reality that is increasingly shaped by technology and the large companies that shape it.
Nikolaj’s work is centered around the national and international direction of AI policy and global governance through cooperation with countries, dialogue with the tech industry, participation in multilateral forums, and engagement with civil society and the research sector.
Nikolaj holds a Master of Science degree in Cognitive Science and has a strong technical background in language technology, having coauthored papers accepted to NeurIPS, EMNLP, and Nature Medicine. He has previously served as Data Science Mentor at MIT Critical Data and Affiliate Researcher at AIM, the AI in Medicine Program at Harvard Medical School.