Carsten has been working with trend analysis and scenario processes at the Institute for more than 30 years in more than 30 countries. He is Head of presentations and key notes at the Institute. Carsten has en extensive experience as a presenter from doing more than 1,000 presentations globally during his professional life, spanning from global conferences to smaller groups in all types of organisations. The themes Carsten has been working with all relate to how global and local trends shape the future for organisations, companies, and societies. Carsten has done scenario processes in retail, HR, finance, business-to-business, governments and NGOs. His key priority is how to drive processes for clients in order for them to prepare for the future. These clients include organisations in global retail, governments, industrial conglomerates, cultural organisations, rock festivals, tourist organisations, the transport industry, IT and more.
Carsten is Master of Science in Political Economy from the Copenhagen University. He joined the Institute in 1990.
Over the last 20 years, Carsten has worked closely with Roskilde Festival (the biggest Danish Music Festival), where he has invited management in Danish and international businesses to experience how people can become inspired to work with the future.
