Speakers

Ms Charlotte Slente has been the Secretary General of DRC Danish Refugee Council since 2019. DRC is a displacement mandated organisation with operations in 37 countries around the world. Ms Slente comes from a long career in the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has held multiple senior management posts central to Denmark’s development and humanitarian policy, hereunder State Secretary for Development Policy and Under-Secretary of State for Global Development – heading the Danish International Development Agency DANIDA. Charlotte Slente has also served high-level diplomatic posts, including Under- Secretary of State for Global Politics and Security, as well as Under-Secretary of State for Consular Affairs. Ms Slente has been Ambassador for Fragile States, as well as Economic Diplomacy and held several senior posts at Denmark’s bilateral Embassies. Ms Slente started her career with UNDP and holds a Master of Science in International Business Administration and Modern Languages from the Copenhagen Business School.