Casper is not your typical ambassador. And he doesn’t have a typical assignment. He is the first person to serve as Denmark’s tech ambassador, responsible for connecting the Danish government to tech companies around the world. His “embassy” has more than twenty employees working on three continents, with staff in the United States, China, and Denmark. When I had met with a group of European ambassadors in Copenhagen the preceding spring, Casper’s new job was on people’s minds. The Danish foreign minister, Anders Samuelsen, had proclaimed the position “a world first” and a necessity, stating
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