Nanna Kann-Rasmussen is an associate professor in Cultural Policy and Library Development at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Information Studies. Since 2017, she is Head of Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, which is a research centre based in the University of Copenhagen. She is also the editor in chief of the journal NTIK: Nordic Journal of Information Science and Cultural mediation. Her research focuses on cultural institutions and their relation to society. She is particularly interested in the legitimation work in cultural organizations and the relations between cultural policy and cultural leadership.