Katja Iversen is the CEO of the Museum for the United Nations (UN Live), an organisation focused on connecting people worldwide to the values and work of the United Nations. Through collaborations with cultural platforms like film, music, gaming, and sports, the museum aims to promote global belonging and action for change.

Katja has more than 30 years of experience working in the corporate, NGO, and United Nations sectors. She has been an executive adviser to world and corporate leaders on leadership, equality, and sustainability. 

Katja has held advisory roles with the World Economic Forum, King’s College Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, Global Goals World Cup, and is a board member of 4LifeSolutions. She has been a member of Prime Minister Trudeau’s. She has also served on various committees and task forces, including the G7 Gender Equality Councils, the Clinton Global Initiative, and MIT’s Solve Challenge on Women and Technology.
 

From 2016 to 2020, Katja was the President and CEO of Women Deliver, where she oversaw the development and execution of the largest conference on women’s health, rights, and well-being.
 

As a speaker and moderator, Katja has spoken at numerous prominent events, including the World Economic Forum in Davos, the United Nations, the World Bank, the OECD, and conferences at Harvard and MIT. She has moderated panels with world leaders, experts, and activists on a variety of topics, including leadership, gender equality, and sustainability.
 

Katja has published op-eds and commentaries on gender equality, ESG-related issues, and global health in outlets such as The Guardian, Huffington Post, The British Medical Journal, and The Telegraph. In 2018, she published a book on women, networking, and leadership.
 

Awards and recognitions include being named Dane of the Year in 2018, a Women of the Decade award, and inclusion in Apolitical’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy in 2019. Katja was appointed an official Copenhagen Goodwill Ambassador in 2019 and named a United Nations Food System Champion in 2021. 

She has a background as a leader in civil society, the United Nations, and as a cross-cultural leadership trainer for Fortune 500 executives.
 

Katja holds a Master’s Degree in Communications from Denmark and a Leadership Degree from Columbia University in the US. In 2022, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy for her contribution to advancing cross-cultural connections. She was named Dane of the Year in 2018, received the Woman of the Decade award in 2022 from the Women Economic Forum, and was honoured with the Canadian LeadHer Legacy Award in 2025. Katja speaks five languages and has worked, lived, or travelled in nearly 100 countries.