In March 2024 RADM Jakob D. Rousøe was appointed as Defence Attaché to the United States of America and Canada for Denmark. RADM Rousøe comes from the job as Director responsible for Navy Systems in the Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) covering within his portfolio all maritime platforms in the Navy, Home Guard and Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) Organisation including integration and maintenance of all systems. As Director he was member of the Executive Board of Directors within DALO. 

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RADM Rousøe has an extensive background with experience from jobs at the strategic, operational and tactical level within the Armed Forces as well as two postings abroad (UK and US) and has participated in a number of international operations. As a young officer, RADM Rousøe held numerous positions on board a variety of different ship classes including Principle Warfare Officer and Commanding Officer of smaller units. 

 

From 2006 to 2009, he worked for the Royal Navy’s (UK) Maritime Battle Staff, a NATO Rapid Response Headquarter, which included a deployment to Iraq as part of the Maritime Campaign of Operation TELIC/Operation Iraqi Freedom. After graduating with honours from his Military and Strategic Master study at the Royal Danish Defence College in 2010 he spend the next five years playing a key role in the writing of two comprehensive white papers concerning the Danish Defence’s future engagement in the Arctic. The former was completed while he was working in the Danish Defence Command and the latter while he was holding the position as Arctic Advisor to the Danish Minister of Defence. In 2015 he was appointed as Assisting Defence and Naval Attaché to US and Canada working from the Danish Embassy in Washington D.C. A position he held until 2017 where he moved to Nuuk in Greenland to take up a job as Head of Operations at the Danish Joint Arctic Command. 

 

RADM Rousøe has been commanding several of the Danish Arctic Frigates of the Thetis-class patrolling the waters in and around Greenland and the Faroe Islands. In 2019 the deployments to the High North were sat on hold for half a year while Jakob was Flagship Commander for one of the NATO Standing Navy Forces primarily operating in the Baltics. Hence he comes with an extended appreciation of the challenges the Armed Forces face in a changing Arctic and Baltics.