Johannes Stenbæk Madsen is Head of Cooperation at the European Union (EU) Delegation to Kazakhstan in Nur-Sultan. In this capacity he supervises the management of EU funded programmes in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and the Central Asia Region. Between 2013 and 2017 he was Head of Cooperation at the EU Delegation to Kyrgyzstan.
Before joining the European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) he worked as Team Leader at the Luxembourg based European Court of Auditors (ECA), the independent EU institution responsible for auditing the European Commission and the EEAS. Prior to his time at the ECA he worked as Sr. Financial Management Specialist at the World Bank in Washington DC and before that as Administrator for the SIGMA Programme at the OECD in Paris.