Casper Klynge
Zscaler VP Government Partnerships; former Danish tech ambassador; on regulatory panel at Brussels sovereignty summit.
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Does Zscaler's cloud-routed security model survive the European sovereignty frameworks Casper Klynge once helped shape?
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Participated in regulatory panel at the summit
European Tech Sovereignty: Brussels sovereignty summit opens without European AI builders- Who is Casper Klynge and what was his role in tech diplomacy?
- Casper Klynge is VP Government Partnerships at Zscaler. He previously served as Denmark's Technology Ambassador, one of the first government roles specifically focused on tech-sector diplomacy. He spoke on the regulatory panel at Sovereign Tech Europe in Brussels on 23 April 2026.Source: Sovereign Tech Europe programme
Background
Casper Klynge is Vice President of Government Partnerships at Zscaler, the US cloud security company. He served previously as Denmark's Technology Ambassador, one of the first diplomatic postings specifically focused on tech-sector relations. He participates in the regulatory panel at the inaugural Sovereign Tech Europe summit in Brussels on 23 April 2026, alongside MEP Aura Salla and Cisco's Chris Gow .
Klynge's background in European digital diplomacy and his current role at a US cloud security company makes him an unusual figure in a sovereignty debate: he understands the EU regulatory environment from direct government experience, while now representing a US firm whose cloud-delivered Zero Trust security architecture is widely deployed in European government networks. Zscaler's model involves routing enterprise security traffic through its global cloud platform, raising questions about data sovereignty in the same frameworks the summit is debating.
His transition from government technology ambassador to private sector government partnerships is a pattern common in EU digital policy: former officials who shaped regulatory frameworks move to companies regulated by those frameworks. Whether that represents institutional capture or informed engagement is a standing question in Brussels policy circles.
