Mads A. Danielsen

Advisor to CEO at Hafslund Celsio || Working for a world in balance, with renewables ♻️🔥💧⚡️

Oslo, Oslo, Norway

About

Passionate about industry, energy, climate, management, research and innovation. Striving to make a positive footprint. I enjoy being part of organizational machineries in need of someone facilitating and driving change and growth. Broad experience from strategy, communication and coordination in complex organizations, primarily in the Energy, Innovation, Research and Higher Education sectors. Key competences: Strategy, coordination, communications, public affairs (Norway & EU) Currently, I serve as Advisor to the CEO and Secretary to the Board of Directors at Hafslund Celsio - Norway’s largest circular energy company and the country’s leading provider of district heating. Celsio operates Norway’s largest waste incineration plant, where residual waste is transformed into electricity and district heating for Oslo. We also recover energy from data centers, bioenergy sources, and the city’s sewer system. Among our most ambitious projects is the world’s first full-scale carbon capture facility at a waste-to-energy plant - a pioneering step toward a more sustainable future.

Experience

  • Advisor to CEO of Hafslund Celsio at Hafslund
    Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

    Strategic advisor to CEO of Hafslund Celsio, the Hafslund company working on waste-to-energy, district heating and cooling, and carbon capture. Secretary to the Group of Executives and to the Board of Directors. ESG and CSRD coordinator for the company.

  • Meddommer at Oslo tingrett
    Jan 2021 - Dec 2024 · 4 yrs

  • Project Coordinator at Oslo Science City
    Aug 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Norway's first innovation district, established in 2019. Facilitating the development of a vibrant area and ecosystems for innovation and research in Norway's most knowledge-intensive area. I'm project coordinator and secretary to the board. Members: City of Oslo, University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital, the regional health authority (Helse Sør-Øst), Oslo Cancer Cluster, Oslo Science Park,, SINTEF, NGI, Oslo Pensjonsforsikring, Ferd and Studensamskipnaden SiO. Webpage: www.oslosciencecity.no

  • Senior Executive Officer at ARENA Centre for European Studies
    Nov 2017 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Responsible for research administration (grant applications, project reports, research assistance) and research dissemination, event management and the press, in addition to be the web and social media editor. ARENA is a multidisciplinary international research centre on the EU and European integration, and is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Oslo.

  • Research Assistant at Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
    Apr 2016 - Feb 2017 · 11 mos

    Research assistant for the project "Rewards, motivations and carreers" ("Belønning, motivasjon og karriere") for professors Tobias Bach and Jostein Askim. We study and make a data set on the background of senior officials and political appointees in the Norwegian central government.