#  Lene Hau named World Dane 2010 

 





August 01, 2010

 

 

 Lene Vestergaard Hau was named ‘World Dane 2010’ ('Verdensdansker 2010') by global network Danes Worldwide at the organization’s annual summer meeting, held at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore, Denmark, on 1 August 2010. The honor is awarded to a Dane who has made a special contribution to placing Denmark on the World map. According to Danes Worldwide, Lene Hau was awarded the prize ‘for emphatically and persistently placing Denmark on the World map’.  
It is only the third time that the prize has been awarded. The two prior honorees are soccer icon Michael Laudrup and Grammy winning pianist and composer Bent Fabricius-Bjerre.

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Lene Vestergaard Hau was named World Dane 2010 at Kronborg Castle, Denmark.From left: Danes Worldwide's President and Former Ambassador to China Christopher Bo Bramsen,Professor Lene Vestergaard Hau, and Danes Worldwide's Secretary-General Anne-Marie Dahlgaard.Photo: Hasse Ferrold   ![World Dane](/sites/g/files/omnuum11731/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/haulab/files/worlddanefigure2.jpg?itok=EpUdEkV1) 

 

Lene Vestergaard Hau World Dane 2010 at Kronborg Castle, Denmark.From left: Danes Worldwide's Secretary-General Anne-Marie Dahlgaard, the U.S. Ambassador to DenmarkLaurie Fulton, Danes Worldwide's Vice President Carsten Dencker Nielsen, Professor Lene Vestergaard Hau,Danes Worldwide's President and Former Ambassador to China Christopher Bo Bramsen,Interior and Health Minister Bertel Haarder (holding the award: a solid glass globe by Danish glass artist Stig Persson),and CEO for A.P. Møller-Maersk Shipping, Niels Smedegaard-Andersen.Photo: Hasse Ferrold   ![World Dane](/sites/g/files/omnuum11731/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/haulab/files/worlddanefigure3.jpg?itok=SzEQ0a-S) 

 

Danish Embassy, Washington DC, 2010. Professor Hau is standing between T.R.H. Crown Prince Frederikand Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.Photo: Bo Nymann

 

 

 



 

 

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