Nils Bernstein

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Nils Bernstein (born 4. January 1943 ) was 2005 - 2013 Royal. Director (ie Chairman of the Board) for Danmarks Nationalbank . He succeeded Bodil Nyboe Andersen in office and was succeeded by Lars Rohde .

Background

Bernstein grew up on Sundholm (then workhouse for alcoholics) on Amager , where his father was employed. He is the middle of three children

• O-levels (1959).
• Apprenticeship of the Danish Welding Machine Factory (1959-63).
• Trained as an electrical engineer (1963).
• MSc. From the University of Copenhagen (1970).

He has since 1964 been married to Ulla, and they have two children, a boy and a girl.

Career

• Secretary of the Ministry of Finance (1970-75).
• Financial Secretary at the Danish Embassy in Washington (1975-77).
• Secretary to the Minister of Finance (1978-79).
• Head of the Budget Department of the Treasury (1980-83).
• Permanent Secretary in the Department of Administration in the Ministry of Finance (1984-86).

In the following years he was permanent secretary in various ministries:

• Ministry of Agriculture (1986-94).
• Agriculture and Fisheries (1994-96)
• Prime Minister's Office (1996-2005)

He was in 1996-2005 also Council of State secretary

As a former permanent secretary in the Prime Minister should Bernstein have been questioned by the Iraq and Afghanistan Commission

Bernstein is not decorated, and must therefore be rejected by the receiving Dannebrog .