Astrid Høegh Jensen

Astrid Høegh Jensen is Managing Director of PEMconsult. She is responsible for the company’s day-to-day management and organisational development. She works closely with the board, staff and partners, oversees quality assurance of proposals, and maintains relationships with clients and collaborators. Alongside her management role, she continues to work as a consultant on PEM’s projects.

Astrid has more than 10 years of experience in international development cooperation, evaluation, water and environmental management, and climate change adaptation. She holds a Master’s degree in Geography and Geoinformatics from the University of Copenhagen, specialising in Environment, Society and Development.

Astrid has worked on evaluations, formulations, reviews and assignments in a range of international contexts. For PEMconsult, she has contributed to assignments within water, climate, environment and development, including the evaluation of European Investment Bank support to the water sector outside the EU, the Mid-term review of UNEP-DHI Centre on Water and Environment and Evaluation of the Danish Support for Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries.

More recently, Astrid has worked with sustainable urban water development and international partnerships. As Sector Counsellor at the Embassy of Denmark in India, she has worked to strengthen the Indo-Danish water partnership between the City of Aarhus and the State of Rajasthan, with a focus on integrated urban water management, including water supply, wastewater management and blue-green solutions.

Astrid combines analytical and evaluation expertise with practical experience from international assignments and stakeholder engagement across government institutions, development partners and local organisations.

Experience: India, Kenya, Jordan, Myanmar, Israel, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Tanzania, and Egypt