What Jacob brings to the table
Jacob is characterized by experienced and courageous leadership of organizational change.
Jacob's ambition is to strengthen the strategic decision-making at SDU through innovative management information based on data and advanced analytics.
Jacob has been working with data analysis since 1997 in the fields of:
- Research Analysis. The Danish Institute for Studies in Research and Research Policy 1997-2001, including the role as EuroStat DG XII National Expert in R&D
- Analyzes in the field of education: SDU 2001-2013, including the position as Head of Student Services Analysis unit 2009-2013 with responsibility for business analytics on students and study programs, secretariat of accreditation and quality of education, and first level user support for the study administration system STADS
- Responsible for strategic management information at SDU since 2014
- Director of SDU Analytics.
- Promotion of the synergy between SDU strategy and new analytic solutions.
- Increase the organization's data literacy - widely across the university.
- Curious on AI and how to cultivate employee-driven innovation and process optimization.
- UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business: Certificate of Business Excellence 2023-2024.
- Northwestern University: Business Analytics for Decision Makers, On Campus Certification 2019.
- UC Berkeley, School of Information: Data Science for Executives, Online Certification 2019.
- University of Southern Denmark: Professional Master in Evaluation, On campus 2006-2008.
- Aarhus University: Political Science, 1991-1997.
- International speaker & guest lecture in the field of “How to support data-driven decision making”.
