Baltic Development Forum is an independent non-profit networking organisation with members from large companies, major cities, institutional investors and business associations in the Baltic Sea Region.
Baltic Development Forum works with a wide range of partners, including businesses, governments, regional organisations, research and media institutions.

Our network involves more than 2,500 decision makers from all over the region and beyond. The mission of Baltic Development Forum is to promote the Baltic Sea Region as an integrated, prosperous and internationally competitive growth region.

Baltic Development Forum is chaired by Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark 1982-1993. Mr. Ellemann-Jensen is co-founder of Baltic Development Forum and the Council of the Baltic Sea States. The Baltic Development Forum Honorary and Advisory Boards consist of high-level political dignitaries and prominent business executives representing the entire Baltic Sea Region.

As the leading high-level and agenda-setting networking organisation in Northern Europe we facilitate and develop new initiatives, partnerships and international contacts to stimulate growth, innovation and competitiveness in the Baltic Sea Region and its 11 dynamic countries. We seek to develop the Baltic Sea Region as a global centre of excellence and establish the Region internationally as a strong and attractive place brand.

Being the preferred platform for decision makers from business, politics and academia Baltic Development
Forum is a unique platform for innovative thinking, informal cross-sector/cross-border/cross-level encounters and concrete new business opportunities with a global perspective.

We welcome new Members and Partners from business, politics and academia represented
in form of companies, governments, metropolises, regions, organisations or academic faculties. For more
information, please contact Baltic Development Forum by phone + 45 70 20 93 94 or by e-mail bdf@bdforum.org

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