Background
He was born into a family of well known engineers.
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He was born into a family of well known engineers.
Nils Foss graduated as civil engineers in 1952 and was then employed at Torben Søderberg in Denmark as Sales engineer
Thereafter he went to the United States and worked at Tracerlab Incorporated in Boston and at Donner Scientific Company in California. In 1956 he founded FOSS Electric A/South, today known as FOSS (FOSS Analytical A/South), with his father Erling Foss. He was Chief Executive Officer of FOSS until 1968, where after he was Chief Executive Officer of the Danish company F.L. Smidth from 1969-1976.
Foreign a period of time he was active in the Board of the Danish Conservative Party, during which time he was a strong supporter of Danish membership of the European Union and a strong believer in company commitment to protecting the environment and society as a whole.
During 1989-1996 Nils Foss was Chairman of the Danish charity Dansk Flygtningehjælp.