Christmas Reception
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Obama Hosts Novozymes CEO and Other International Business Leaders at the White House
The President and CEO of ADBC member Novozymes, Peder Holk Nielsen, joined U.S. President Barack Obama and other international business leaders at the White House in May for a roundtable discussion on investing in the United States. President Obama and the business leaders discussed the opportunities for locating, growing and hiring in the U.S. and…
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5th Annual Sustainability Awards Reception Hosted By Ambassador Taksoe-Jensen
The US Department of State invited ADBC member companies to the 5th Annual Sustainability Awards Reception in partnership with the DC Greening Embassies Forum on Thursday, June 26th. The annual Mayor’s Sustainability Awards recognize outstanding businesses and organizations for their environmental stewardship, innovative best practices, pollution prevention, and resource conservation. The awards highlight sustainable practices…
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Interested in Washington DC Think Tank Trends?
If you are a Danish speaker and interested in the most recent foreign policy trends from Think Tanks in DC, contact Sine Hjalager @sinhja@um.dk, to sign up for the Embassy’s informative weekly newsletter.
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EU Open House Success!
On May 10 the EU Open House and Eurovision Song Contest Live Broadcast Party was hosted at the Embassy of Denmark. This year we had the pleasure of welcoming a record number of visitors to our embassy (more than 4,800 people for EU Open House and approximately 450 for the Eurovision Song Contest Live Broadcast…
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New Addition to the CleanTech Team at Innovation Center Denmark
Starting July 1st, 2014, Ali Mushtaq Butt is the new addition to the CleanTech team at Innovation Center Denmark, Silicon Valley. Ali comes from a previous job as Vice President of the Wind Energy Advisory at the Consulate General of Denmark in Chicago. In the Windy City, he was responsible for building a highly specialized,…
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Launch of the New ADBC Website
The ADBC webpage has been updated with a more modern and mobile-friendly design as well as better flow in navigation between news content, making it easier to read more articles from the newsletter! Also, we are happy to introduce an easy online payment feature on the site. You can start making your payments online by…
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Fuel Without Fear: ADBC Participates at Talk given by Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute
Amory Lovins is the cofounder and chief scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute in Snowmass, Colorado. He is also author of Recreating Fire. On Monday June 23rd, Dr. Lovins was in Washington and gave a talk on the book and his message about weaning ourselves from fossil fuels. According to Dr. Lovins, four-fifths of energy…
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TTIP Roundtable with Ambassador Taksoe-Jensen
In Copenhagen in May, Ambassador Taksoe-Jensen participated in a roundtable with the Danish Chamber of Commerce, Dansk Erhverv, to discuss the transatlantic partnership with Danish companies, including a number of ADBC members. In particular, the ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations were discussed. The TTIP process is now reaching a more difficult phase…
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ADBC Monitors: New Policy for Procurement in the World Bank
On behalf of Danish companies, the American-Danish Business Council has taken a look at the coming procurement changes in the World Bank. As the World Bank works out the details of its new Procurement Policy, the two-year review process, set to finish in early 2015, will seek to change the Bank’s approach to procurement from…
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Congressional Reception
The second annual Friends of Denmark Caucus reception was again a great success – with attendance far more than the 200 participants from last year. Several ADBC companies were represented and former Ambassador Laurie Fulton, Chair of the ADBC Honorary Advisory Board and former Ambassador Stuart Bernstein, member of the ADBC Honorary Advisory Board,…