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Christian Bason

Copenhagen, Denmark

CEO of the Danish Design Center

Christian Bason is CEO of Danish Design Center, directing strategic initiatives for innovation methodology, redesigning organizations, and driving societal transitions by design. Prior to this, he was the director of MindLab, the Danish government’s innovation team. Previously, Bason was a business manager with Ramboll Management Consulting. A speaker and presenter on design as a method and mindset for sustainable change, he is also a lecturer at Oxford Saïd Business School, Henley Business School, European School of Administration, and Copenhagen Business School. Bason is the author of nine books on innovation, design, and leadership, including Expand: Stretching the Future by Design. His commentary has also appeared in Harvard Business Review and Stanford Social Innovation Review, among other publications. Bason’s honors include German newspaper Tagesspiegel’s 2018 Creative Bureaucrat Prize.