Local elections November 2025 - find a CBS-expert
The local elections are approaching. On 18 November we will go to the polls to elect mayors and city council members for the next four years. Topics such as climate, waste sorting, transportation, digitalisation, business policy and welfare are on the agenda.
This list provides an overview of CBS researchers who can contribute to the debate with specialized insights.
Digital transformations and citizens
Mikkel Flyverbom, ethics and digital responsible organizations, data driven leadership, transparency in big data and governance
Torkil Clemmensen, when digitalization in the public sector troubles the citizens, the relation between humans and computers/robots, digital design, digitalization and the possibilities for the future welfare society
Ursula Plesner, public digitalization, how the public sector learns to make good use of digitalization, digitalization and citizen, the future digital work life
Green transition, traffic, and circular economy
Ismir Mulalic, urbanisation, gentrification, electric cars, air pollution in cities, sustainable transport, parking in cities, commuting, traffic
Jesper Clement, nudging, green nutrition habits, overconsumption, and climate, sorting of waste, green washing
Justine Grønbæk Pors, politics related to nature protection and biodiversity
Steen Vallentin, circular economy, climate goals, municipalities and green transition, social responsibility in the public sector
Thomas Riise Johansen, climate policy, how organisations can live up to the climate goals through revision and accounting
Jacob Hasselbalch, sustainability, circular economy, plastic pollution, climate change
Public administration, welfare, schools, ageing and voluntaries
Anders La Cour, the voluntary sector, and its cooperation with the public sector
Carsten Greve, public and private cooperations, reforms
Dorthe Pedersen, public management and administration, public reform and conditions for public management, public labour market, collective wage negotiation, and ’The Danish model’
Justine Grønbæk Pors, child and youth policy, public schools, ageing policy, centre the citizen and innovate across the administration
Niels Thyge Thygesen, more welfare at lower cost, streamlining in the municipalities, gift economy
Niels Westergård-Nielsen, what can be achieved by improving leadership in schools, gymnasium, day care institutions, tax administration and banks, sickness benefits, public wage setting
Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, bureaucracy and debureaucratisation, welfare management, administration/citizen, outsourcing and partnerships, health care, school, social policy
Ulrik Bisgaard Ulsrod Røhl, public administration and management, public values, digitalization and good administrative practice
Political communication, digital media and voters, branding of municipalities
Julie Uldam, interactions between citizens, the press and political candidates in election campaigns, social media, online activism, citizen journalism
Mads Mordhorst, branding of municipalities, storytelling
Emil Husted, political communication, retoric, political parties, digital organisation, Danish Parliament
Szilvia Gyimothy Mørup-Petersen, marketing and branding of places and cities, sharing economy, tourism
Regionalisation, housing prices and jobs
Birthe Larsen, unemployment, housing prices, inequality
Jesper Rangvid, conjunctures and the consequences for the private sector, housing market, mortgages and regional differences, crises, stocks
Michael Møller, housing economics, personal finance, portfolio investment
Niels Westergård-Nielsen, unemployment, attract organisations and new jobs to municipalities, regionalisation, rural district, geographical inequality