Carsten Boyer Thøgersen is the former Consul General of Denmark in Shanghai. He has held positions in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission, the private sector, and Danish universities. From 2007 to 2017, he served as the Director of the Copenhagen Business Confucius Institute in Denmark.

His research interests include Sino-Danish trade and investment, as well as Chinese outbound investment. His representative works include China in the 1980s (co-authored), To Point At the Moon— (Only to See Your Own Finger), and From a Strong Past to a Dynamic Present: Danes and Danish Companies in the Greater Shanghai Region 1846 to 2008 (in Danish, co-authored).