Tine Knott

President and CEO

Tine Knott assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer in 2025. As President and CEO, she is responsible for optimizing DAI’s business performance and ensuring strategic alignment in the pursu it of DAI’s mission.

Tine Knott

Before assuming her current role, Tine served as DAI’s President, directly overseeing the firm’s development sector businesses, private sector consulting team, and corporate strategy and operations worldwide, including the strategy and marketing functions, information technology, global facilities, human capital, and security. Prior to that, she served as Executive Vice President for Strategy and Global Operations, and Senior VP of DAI’s U.S. Government Business—our largest business unit.

In 2017, Tine launched and led DAI’s Center for Secure and Stable States with a mission to raise the bar for development and security programming in fragile environments. For the three years prior, she was Managing Director for Governance, Transition, and Stability, responsible for the company’s governance, stabilization, political transition, countering violent extremism, peacebuilding, citizen security, and public financial management portfolio.

Before joining DAI in 2011, Tine spent 15 years supporting U.S. Government development initiatives in Washington D.C., Jordan, Mozambique, Ghana, and Peru. Tine is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish with skills in French and Norwegian. She completed the Wharton School’s Advanced Management Program in 2022.