Steffen
characterizes himself as a former international civil servant gone rogue.
As a retired
career official (over 33 years in the EU) with diplomatic stints as Deputy (and
sometimes Acting) Head of EU Missions in Ukraine and Romania he boasts of a unique
experience of how our international organizations and their leaders operate -in
real life.
He has represented
the EU-Commission in bodies as different as the European Parliament, the EU
Council of Ministers and the Economic and Social Committee, where he also
worked in the beginning of his career in the Single Market directorate; add to
that the OECD´s Financial Affairs Committee, plus working with the IMF, the USAID and the UN´s Development
Aid Agency, UNDP.
He has an MA
in English and History from the University of Århus, Denmark and has co-written
and co-edited two books, From New Deal to New Frontiers and The Angry
Young Men.
His genre is creative
nonfiction and his literary style is mix of two politically completely
different thorns in the side of the political elites, Camille Paglia and Ann
Coulter.
His message,
if any, is politically incorrect.
He is a
regular contributor to a Danish political internet blog, called 24Nyt and
frequently write opinion pieces for both Danish and foreign media.
He spends
half of the year, the winter, in Cascais, Portugal and the summer in Sydals,
Denmark, with his Florida-born wife, Joy, and his dog, Bubba. He has 3 children
and 6 grandchildren.