After a Master at the Aarhus School of Architecture and an international Master in leadership and innovation at the Copenhagen Business School, Mette Skjold worked on numerous urban and rural development projects at a national and international level. From 2001 to 2008 she held executive positions in multidisciplinary teams at Henning Larsen Architects. From 2005 to 2012 she also taught urban planning at the Copenhagen School of Architecture.

She is now a member of Copenaghen’s Business School and CEO of the architecture laboratory SLA, where she has been working for 8 years on innovative projects focused on today’s challenges for cities.