Jacob F. Kirkegaard

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, senior fellow, has been associated with the Institute since 2002. Before joining the Institute, he worked with the Danish Ministry of Defense, the United Nations in Iraq, and in the private financial sector. He is a graduate of the Danish Army's Special School of Intelligence and Linguistics with the rank of first lieutenant; the University of Aarhus in Aarhus, Denmark; Columbia University in New York; and received his Ph. D from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He is author of The Accelerating Decline in America's High-Skilled Workforce: Implications for Immigration Policy (2007), coeditor of Transatlantic Economic Challenges in an Era of Growing Multipolarity (2012), coauthor of Transforming the European Economy (2004), and assisted with Accelerating the Globalization of America: The Role for Information Technology (2006).