Kyle Copas
Head Of Communications
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Copas is a communications leader with more than 20 years’ experience shaping strategic messaging, brand identity, and fundraising for international environmental and sustainability organizations, currently serving as Head of Communications at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility in Copenhagen. He combines a writer’s and documentarian’s craft with practical paralegal know-how on intellectual property, licensing, and privacy to make complex scientific and data-driven topics accessible to researchers, decision-makers, journalists and the public. Skilled at building and motivating teams, Kyle has a track record of turning open-data advocacy into tangible partnerships, capacity development, and supplementary revenue streams that complement membership models. His background spans nonprofit, consultancy and film production, reflecting a rare blend of storytelling, visual communication and strategic program delivery.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
AB, AB at Wabash CollegeMaster's ABD, Master's ABD at University of Virginia
French
Github Skills (73)
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web-application7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gbif/ssg-bid
Feb 2016 - Nov 2018
Grantseekers' and grantees' website for GBIF's BID: Biodiversity Information for Development programme
Contributions:88 releases, 4 PRs, 228 pushes in 2 years 8 months
bidbiodiversitygbifprogramme
gbif/doc-private-sector-data-publishing
Aug 2020 - Dec 2024
The purpose of this document is to work as a template for an internal documentation process to be presented to the company's decision-making bodies to inform and support their decision in becoming a GBIF publisher.
Contributions:2 releases, 5 PRs, 56 pushes in 4 years 4 months
decision-makingprocess-documentationinternalinformdecision
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