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Rasmus Bech Hansen
BornDecember 1975
NationalityDanish
OccupationBusinessperson
Known forCOVID-19 pandemic research
Notable workAirfinity

Rasmus Bech Hansen is a Danish businessperson, who is the founder and CEO of the disease forecasting and data analytics company, Airfinity.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

Hansen was born in December 1975.[2] When he was 13, he founded a newspaper.[3] He holds a BSc in Political science from the University of Copenhagen and an MPA from Harvard University in 2001.[4] He received the Crown Prince Frederic award for excellent scholarship.[5]

When he was 21, he was appointed as a special advisor to Ole Vig Jensen, the Danish Minister of Education after his impressive speech at the Ministry's annual Sorø meeting.[6]

Career[edit]

Hansen has worked for several companies and as an independent writer and consultant,[7][8][9] including Fast Company and Kontrapunkt.[10] He left Kontrapunkt in early 2011, where he was brand partner and strategy director for seven years.[11]

In 2011, he joined London-based consultancy Venturethree as a strategy director.[12][13] He co-wrote a book Tilbage til virkeligheden with Jens Martin Skibsted, arguing for the integration of marketing and product development and several influential pieces for Harvard Business Review.[14][15][16]

Hansen later joined the Danish daily newspaper group Information.dk as a board member.[4]

In 2015, he founded Airfinity with Sacha Carton. After the loss of his mother to cancer, he attributed the growth of Airfinity to a greater sense of urgency and focus.[17] It became one of the companies in which the UK government's Future Fund retains equity.[18] Airfinity became one of the most quoted data companies in the media for its COVID-19 reports,[19][20] having been described as doing "the best modelling of the pandemic data" by professor Sir John Bell.[21] The company became the Financial Times' Tech Champion of the Year in the health category in 2023.[17]

Public appearances[edit]

He emerged as one of the leading voices on the COVID-19-related subjects, appearing regularly in Bloomberg,[22] BBC,[23] The Telegraph,[24] and CNN,[25] and has gotten attention across other media channels around the world.[26][27]

In April 2023, Hansen was one of the key speakers at the Rhodes Policy Summit, creating a positive legacy from the COVID-19 pandemic.[28][29]

He has spoken with the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on BBC Four and argued to expand the ongoing global vaccine development facilities to accelerate response times to future pandemic risks.[30]

Bibliography[edit]

Hansen co-wrote a book Tilbage til virkeligheden with Jens Martin Skibsted.

  • Bech Hansen, Rasmus; Skibsted, Jens Martin (2013). Tilbage til virkeligheden: sådan skabes værdi i en verden, hvor alle ved alt [Back to Reality] (in Danish) (1st ed.). Gyldendal. ISBN 9788702130072. OCLC 865000265.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Airfinity CEO on Vaccination Campaign". Yahoo Finance. 22 March 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Rasmus Bech HANSEN personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". service.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Rasmus Bach Hansen CEO & Founder, Airfinity" (PDF). wto.org. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  4. ^ a b "To nye profiler til Informations bestyrelse". mediawatch.dk. 27 March 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  5. ^ "Rasmus Bech Hansen". pharma2021.live.ft.com. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  6. ^ "Fremtidens politiske penneførere". Dagbladet Information (in Danish). 19 February 1999. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  7. ^ "Danske Bank-navnet har tabt mia. i værdi". Finans (in Danish). 14 August 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  8. ^ "Rasmus Bech Hansen". hbr.org. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  9. ^ "Rasmus Bech Hansen - Gyldendal". www.gyldendal.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  10. ^ "Rasmus Bech: Regulér erhvervslivet – også for dets egen skyld". RÆSON (in Danish). 10 October 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  11. ^ Graversen, Finn (28 March 2011). "Dansk brandingekspert flytter til topjob i London". Dagbladet Børsen (in Danish). Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  12. ^ Graversen, Finn (13 October 2015). "Adblocking fremmes af dårlige digitale reklamer". Bureaubiz (in Danish). Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  13. ^ Graversen, Finn (28 March 2011). "Dansk brandingekspert flytter til topjob i London". borsen.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  14. ^ Skibsted, Jens Martin; Hansen, Rasmus Bech (13 February 2014). "Brands Aren't Dead, But Traditional Branding Tools Are Dying". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  15. ^ Tilbage til virkeligheden (in Danish). plusbog.dk. 14 November 2013. ISBN 978-87-02-13007-2. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  16. ^ "A DISCUSSION BETWEEN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE". Copenhagen Business School. 10 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  17. ^ a b Kuchler, Hannah (15 November 2023). "Airfinity gives decision makers big picture on health". Financial Times. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  18. ^ "Future Fund Portfolio Overview". British Business Bank. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  19. ^ Newey, Sarah (1 June 2023). "How a little-known London start-up predicted China's deadly Covid outbreak". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  20. ^ Høj, Emil (16 May 2021). "Danmarks vaccinationskalender holder næppe. Men der er uenighed om, hvor skævt den rammer". Information (in Danish). Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  21. ^ "The World Tonight - UK's pandemic strategy mistakes - BBC Sounds". BBC. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  22. ^ Paton, James (13 January 2022). "Hundreds of Millions of Covid Vaccine Doses Risk Going to Waste". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  23. ^ Hooker, Lucy; Palumbo, Daniele (13 December 2020). "Covid vaccines: Will drug companies make bumper profits?". BBC. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  24. ^ Newey, Sarah (16 December 2021). "Pharmaceutical leaders admit 'we dismally failed' at global Covid vaccine rollout". The Telegraph. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  25. ^ Nakagawa, Fernando (17 January 2021). "Brasil poderá ter 75% da população vacinada em outubro, prevê consultoria". CNN Brazil. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  26. ^ "Virtual Press Briefing following the Global COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain & Manufacturing Summit". IFPMA. 9 March 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  27. ^ Swift, Rocky (25 January 2021). "Japan likely to hit COVID-19 herd immunity in Oct, months after Olympics - researcher". Yahoo News. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  28. ^ "How can we prevent the next pandemic? - Rhodes Trust". Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships. 15 May 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  29. ^ "Robust preparedness can reduce future pandemic risk by over three times: New modelling study". drugtodayonline.com. 15 April 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  30. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - How to Vaccinate the World, What We Have Learned". BBC 4. Retrieved 15 March 2024.



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