As founder and CEO of Scandinavia's largest think tank, Monday Morning, and founder of the Copenhagen Climate Council, Erik Rasmussen is a leading figure in the public debate over climate change. In 2006, the World Economic Forum appointed Rasmussen one of the world's 100 most influential journalists. One of the major initiatives developed and driven by Rasmussen and Monday Morning is the Danish Innovation Council, which brings together more than 400 leading personalities from Danish business life, political organizations, ministries and knowledge institutions.