Lars Findsen founds new think tank with TV 2 host as director

Søren Lippert will be the director of the think tank Ny Verden and will stop hosting the TV 2 program ‘Lippert’.

Former FE and PET head Lars Findsen is behind a new think tank with a focus on foreign policy, security policy and defense.

This is what the think tank Ny Verden writes in a press release.

Søren Lippert will be the director of the new think tank. Lippert will therefore stop hosting the TV 2 program ‘Lippert’.

Lars Findsen came up with the idea for the think tank together with journalist and author Samuel Rachlin.

Together with investment advisor Helle Kammann, they have gathered a number of interested parties during the winter and spring who support the think tank’s work area and objectives, it says.

The list of supporters includes former Minister of Defense for the Liberal Party Claus Hjort Frederiksen and former Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Conservative Party Per Stig Møller.

Lars Findsen entered into an agreement with the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DE) in May to resign from his position as chief. According to the agreement, he will resign at the end of August.

This happened after a year-long process in which Findsen was sent home, charged, remanded in custody and indicted in a case regarding possible disclosure of strictly confidential information about the so-called cable collaboration.

The prosecution wanted to conduct a trial with a significant degree of secrecy from the public. Among other things, not even the indictment in the case was allowed to come to light.

But the Supreme Court rejected it, and in November 2023 the Prosecution Service chose to drop the case.

The new think tank will address politicians, decision-makers in business and civil society.

Initially, Søren Lippert’s task will be to secure the financial foundation for the think tank, it is said. After that, he will ensure that it becomes visible in the public conversation.

– Right now, there is nothing more important for me to deal with than how we secure Denmark’s interests in the new world order, of which we still only know the contours, he says in the press release.

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