DLD Europe 2020

Elisabeth is investing on behalf of Acton Capital in game-changing companies and digitally native brands, including The Female Company (GER), KOIO Collective (US) and ArtNight (GER). Prior to Acton Capital, Elisabeth was leading a €200m coinvestment programme at the European Investment Bank (EIB) and worked on bank recapitalisation for the European Stability Mechanism. She holds a Harvard MBA degree with honors, an M.Sc. from London School of Economics with Distinction, a Diplôme from Sciences Po Paris, and is an alumna of the German National Merit Foundation.

Before joining the Facebook, Aura worked in the European Commission as a Foreign Policy and Communications Adviser in the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC). Previously she served as a Member of Cabinet of Jyrki Katainen, European Commission Vice President responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness. Aura holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Turku Finland where she continued her PhD studies in 2017. She also studied Economics of the European Union at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and has been visiting lecturer on European economics at Harvard University. Since 2017 Aura has been a research fellow in the Circular Economy Research Center at École des Ponts Business School Paris. She is also a member of the board of the European Movement International.

Before joining Microsoft in 2020, Casper Klynge served as Denmark’s Tech Ambassador in Silicon Valley. Previously he was Ambassador of Denmark to Indonesia, Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea & ASEAN and to the Republic of Cyprus. Prior to that, Klynge worked in several positions within the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as the Senior Civilian Representative / Deputy Head of NATO’s multinational Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan and as Head of the Euro-pean Union’s civilian crisis management mission in Kosovo). Klynge holds a Master’s degree in political science from Copenhagen University, and is a 2009 Marshall Memorial Fellow.

Prior to his current role, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show “World Soup” (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he has curated more than 250 shows. Obrist’s recent publications include A Brief History of Curating, Project Japan: Metabolism Talks with Rem Koolhaas, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating But Were Afraid to Ask, Do It: The Compendium, Think Like Clouds, Ai Weiwei Speaks, Sharp Tongues - Loose Lips - Open Eyes - Ears to the Ground, along with new volumes of his Conversation Series.