[1][2][3] In January 2016, she was appointed chair of the Royal Danish Theatre and has since served on the boards of several other companies and organizations.
After two years as a reporter, she was promoted to head of the paper's editorial office in Christiansborg Palace, the seat of the Danish Parliament.
[1] During this period, Knudsen also played an active role in the Danish Union of Journalists where she hoped in 1984 to become chair but lost to the left-wing candidate Tove Hygum Jakobsen.
In 1990, she left Berlingske Tidende to join the union-oriented newspaper Det Fri Aktuelt where she became managing director and editor-in-chief in 1993.
[2] In January 2016, she was appointed chair of the Royal Danish Theatre and has since served on the boards of several other companies and organizations.