State Secretary for Development Policy Elsebeth Søndergaard Krone

Career:

• 2025: State Secretary for Development Policy
• 2023: Ambassador of Denmark to South Africa, Angola, Botswana,
  Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  and SADC
• 2022: Head of Department, Green Diplomacy and Climate, Ministry
  of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
• 2019: Head of Department, Centre for Global Cooperation, Danish
  Energy Agency
• 2016: Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Denmark in Jakarta,
  Indonesia
• 2014: Private Secretary to the Minister for Trade and Development
  Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
• 2011: Private Secretary to the Minister for Development Cooperation,
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
• 2010: First Secretary, Embassy of Denmark in Kabul, Afghanistan
• 2009: Head of Section, Department for Strategy and Policy Planning,
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
• 2008: Head of Section, Secretariat of the Africa Commission, Department
  for Africa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
• 2007: Head of Section, Department for UN, the World Bank and
  Global Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark

Education:

• 2000-2006: Cand.Scient.Pol, Political Science, University of Aarhus
• 2003-2004: Exchange student, Political Science, University of Western
  Ontario, Canada
  
  

Born on 22 August 1978. Married and two children.