Researcher
I started as a researcher at DTU – the Technical University of Denmark. I was a physico-chemist working with transport processes in porous media. 
It was back in those days where you actually solved differential equations and drew figures manually with an ink pen. 

I developed laboratory methods for measuring electroosmotic coefficients in soft materials such as sewage sludge and clay. It was great fun and I loved it, but life as a post-doc was without future. There were no positions available for a foreseeable future and after some years with very short project employments I left the academic arena. Not entirely, though, for I am still an external examiner at DTU for BSc and MSc projects, and once in a while I am in the assessment committee on PhD projects.

Consultant
I liked the global scene of the research world, so when I had to look for new pastures I went to a global consultancy company, Price Waterhouse – now PwC – where I mainly worked with European postal services.
After a few years, I decided to move on and became entangled in a company, BusinessMinds, with which I have been associated since. We were a data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytics (back then it was called data mining) house. 
I have had many great experiences there. I developed the method for election audit still used for general elections in Denmark, I build a number of data warehouses and worked with governance and compliance.
At one time I worked with BusinessMinds Australia, where I was lead data modeler for a massive migration project concerning fleet maintenance for Qantas.

It was a great experience and interesting to work out of an office where they tested the gigantic engines of the Airbus A380 just outside.
Back in Denmark, I was employed by DONG Energy – now Ørsted – where I build a generic data warehouse with a thorough audit trail for day-ahead and intraday trading.
When the founders of BusinessMinds returned to Denmark and started BusinessMinds in Denmark again I returned to BusinessMinds. 
Recently BusinessMinds has been associated with QVARTZ which is now merging with Bain.

Legal rights activist
Besides my day job, I spend a lot of time as an LGBT activist. I was involved in LGBT Denmark for 30 years being the chair for a number of years and being the spokesperson on legal rights for some 20 years.
In this capacity, I lobbied the Danish parliament and government on such issues as family law, medically assisted reproduction, and legal gender recognition. 

This work got me involved in the Danish Institute for Human Rights where I was a member of the Human Rights Council, which I also chaired for a couple of years. In this context, I had the opportunity to discuss LGBT rights with many interesting parties such as e.g. the Uganda Human Rights Council and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay. 

The work with LGBT rights also brought me into the arena of refugees and asylum. I was deeply involved in the Danish Refugee Council (Dansk Flygtningehjælp) the largest Danish NGO. This activity got me appointed to the Refugee Appeals Board (Flygtningenævnet) i.e. the court-like institution making final decisions in asylum claims. 
In 2019 I co-founded LGBT komiteen together with fellow activist Tina Thranesen.