Charlotte Flindt Pedersen (born 19 January 1965 in Aarhus, Denmark) is the Executive Director of the Danish Foreign Policy Society.
Charlotte Flindt Pedersen holds a M.A. degree in East-European studies from the University of Copenhagen (1994). During her years as a student she lived and traveled extensively in the Soviet Union experiencing Glasnost and Perestroika first hand. In 1990, she published the following books: “Experiment – pictures from the Soviet Union” (original title in Danish “Eksperimentet – billeder fra Sovjetunionen”) in cooperation with photographer Stig Stasig, and “Young in Moscow” (original title in Danish “Ung i Moskva”) jointly with journalist Lisbeth Jessen.
In 1996, Pederson began her career at the Danish Institute for Human Rights working with human rights, police and justice sector reform in cooperation with civil society organisations and government agencies mainly in the Balkans and former Soviet Countries. From 2009-2015, she was Deputy Director and Head of the International Division at the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
Since May 2015, she functions as the Executive Director of the Danish Foreign Policy Society.
She is an associate partner at Nordic Consulting Group and board member at the Ebbe Munck Memorial Foundation, International Media Support, the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute, and Folmer Wisti Foundation.