(1st term 2026-2029)
Ina Eliasen is the Director General of the Danish Prison Service, a position she has held since 2020.
The Danish Prison Service covers more than 100 geographical locations across Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands and employs nearly 5.000 people with various professional backgrounds and areas of expertise.
In recent years, Ina Eliasen has led a comprehensive effort to modernize and strengthen the Danish Prison Service. Her work has focused on raising the profes-sional standards, developing targeted rehabilitative initiatives for different groups of inmates and expanding both the physical infrastructure capacity and staffing.
Ina Eliasen has great professional experience from her previous positions in the agency as respectively Regional Director of Greater Copenhagen (2014-2017) and Head of Copenhagen Prisons (2014). Her professional experience extends to other parts of the Danish justice system – before being appointed to her current role, she served as the Director of Human Resources and Education in the Danish National Police (2017-2020).
In addition to her present role, Ina Eliasen is a member of the Danish Criminal Law Council, member of the board at Kofoed’s School (one of Denmark’s largest and most respected institutions supporting socially vulnerable people) and external ex-aminer at the Danish University Law Programs.
Her academic background includes a Master’s degree in Law and a Master’s degree in Public Health.
