Combining the fields of political science, public administration and technology lead her into the Digital Government field working as a consultant and an expert. Louise Thomasen has more than 35 years’ experience working with IT in the cross field of technology and society, uniting knowledge of public administration, social science research, and deep technical understanding.
Louise works with analysing, designing, implementing, and evaluating IT systems and tools. She has extensive experience in developing, evaluating, benchmarking, and guiding digital government technologies and projects, bridging policy, societal impact, and cutting‑edge IT to drive effective public sector innovation.
She was with the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) as a consultant and researcher from 1997-2007 where her work concentrated on Information Society issues and research as well as IT development, especially within EU research projects, but also for Danish government and private businesses. She then teamed up with her husband in their technology company which was successfully sold to Adobe Systems Inc. for whom she continued working, before becoming an independent consultant in 2010.
Since 2010 Louise has worked as an independent consultant, expert, and researcher from her consultancy coThomasen. In the past 15 years she has mainly worked with GCC governments, Western Balkan States, European Union, India, and international organisations such as the World Bank, UN, OECD, and ESCWA.
In 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 she contributed to the ICEGOV conferences by co-chairing a session track, as a panellist in plenary discussion, member of debate team, and part of the program committee reviewing papers. She was part of the HM Award jury in Oman (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018). In 2017 she chaired the jury of the Bahrain eGovernment Excellence Award. She has been an international jury panellist in the Dubai since 2014 evaluating smart government off- and on-line services for the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Program for Smart Government Awards.
