MATRIXGREEN - Key Persons
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- Communications Officer, the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics ( Centre Affiliate )
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- Science Director, Earth Commission Associate Professor, Stockholm Resilience Centre Science Committee Member Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society
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- Research Assistant ( Centre Affiliate )
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- Programme Officer, SwedBio
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- Senior Advisor for Policy, Global Resilience Partnership
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- Project Manager, Baltic Health Index
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- Postdoctoral Researcher ( Centre Affiliate )
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- Post - Doctoral Researcher
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- Main Supervisor
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Anne Charlotte Bunge is a PhD candidate at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Her research focuses on assessing the sustainability of novel food system technologies and their transformative potential for the Nordic Countries. To undertake this research, she applies an inter- and transdisciplinary approach using, among others, life cycle assessment studies and the keystone actor concept.
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- Principal Researcher ( Centre Affiliate )
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- Programme Officer, SwedBio
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- Coordinator to the Director
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- CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, AXEL JOHNSON
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- Science Director, Professor
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- Post - Doctoral Researcher
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- Senior Research Fellow ( Centre Affiliate )
Carl Bildt has served as both Prime Minister (1991-1994) and Foreign Minister (2006-2014) of Sweden. During the first period his government initiated major liberal economic reforms, as well as negotiated and signed membership agreement with the European Union. The reform period in the early and mid-1990's is generally seen as having pave the way for the successful growth decades that followed. Subsequently he served in international functions with the EU and UN, primarily related to the conflicts in the Balkans. He was Co-Chairman of the Dayton peace talks on Bosnia and become the first High Representative in the country. Later, he was the Special Envoy of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to the region. Carl Bildt was an early advocate of the new ICT technologies. An 1994 email exchange between him and President Clinton was the first between heads of state/governments. After stepping down as leader of the Moderate Party of Sweden in 1999 and leaving Parliament in 2000 he was also engaged in corporate boards in Sweden and the US as well as different international think-tanks. Returning as Foreign Minister of Sweden in 2006, he come to be seen as one of the most prominent and vocal of European foreign ministers during those years. He was one of the initiators of EU:s Eastern Partnership, and pushed the EU forward also on issues of the Middle East. Currently he is Co-Chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, contributing columnist to Washington Post as well as monthly columnist for Project Syndicate. He recently chaired the Global Commission on Internet Governance. He serves as one of the Senior Advisors to the Wallenberg Foundations in Sweden and is on the Board of Trustees of the RAND Corporation in the US. @carlbildt has continued to push the use of social media also in international diplomacy.
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- Chairman
- Chairman of the Board
- Science Director and Co - Founder of the Stockholm Resilience Centre
Schultz, L., A. Duit. and C. Folke. 2011. Participation, adaptive co-management and management performance in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. World Development 39(4): 662-671
Carl Folke is science director and co-founder of the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC). He has extensive experience in transdisciplinary collaboration between natural and social scientists and is among the most cited scientists in the world on resilience thinking. He is also director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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- Researcher ( Centre Affiliate )
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- Finance Administrator and Communications Officer, Swedbio
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- Ocean Industry Senior Advisor
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- Project Coordinator, SeaBOS
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- Education Coordinator
- Research Assistant
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- Visiting Senior Research Fellow
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- Postdoctoral Research Associate
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- Senior Advisor for the SwedBio Programme at SRC
- Senior Advisor, Swedbio
Ellika Hermansson Török is a senior advisor for the SwedBio programme at SRC working with urban challenges and opportunities in developing countries
Hermansson Török is a senior advisor for the SwedBio programme at SRC. She focuses on urban challenges and opportunities in developing countries and is the programme officer for SwedBio's collaborative programme Urban Natural Assets for Africa: Rivers for Life, which is lead by SwedBio's partner, ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center. Hermansson Török is an active "UNA Rivers" team member and contributes to the multi-actor dialogues and collaborative work in the three target cities: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and Lilongwe, Malawi. Read more about SwedBio's work.
As part of her work on urban issues in developing countries she has recently participated and presented at the Resilient Cities 2016 Conference; the UN Habitat III Conference; COP12 and COP13 to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, and at the Local Climate Solutions for Africa Congress 2017.
Hermansson Török is also coordinating the communications work for SwedBio.
In 2013 Hermansson Török organized the Medellín Dialogue together with SwedBio colleagues and the Humboldt Institute in Colombia, with support from the Environment Ministries of Colombia and Sweden. It was a multi-actor dialogue on integrating social-ecological resilience into the proposed Sustainable Development Goals.
Hermansson Török headed the communications team at SRC for five years (2007-2012), coordinated the media launch of the Nature article on Planetary Boundaries in 2009, and was part of organising the Resilience 2008 Conference and the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium in 2011. Before joining the SRC, Hermansson Törökf worked ten years as press secretary, communications officer and campaign leader within international and national environmental NGOs.
Hermansson Török holds a MSc in systems ecology from Stockholm University, and has studied science communications at university level. She has also taken numerous short courses in; leadership skills, personal development, project management, process facilitation, participatory processes, strategic communication, media training, graphic design and photography.
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- Researcher
- Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre
Emilie Lindkvist is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Her research is focused on using novel simulation models to understand diverse aspects of sustainability in social-ecological systems. Lindkvist uses agent-based simulation models to understand aspects of resilience and sustainability in social-ecological systems.
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- Professor, Principal Researcher
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- Research Assistant ( Centre Affiliated )
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- Communications Advisor and Researcher
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- Human Resources Administrator
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- Post - Doctoral Researcher
Gunhild A. Stordalen, MD/PhD, a (Norwegian-born) medical doctor with a PhD in pathology/orthopedic surgery from the University of Oslo, is the co-founder & chair of the Stordalen Foundation, and the founder & president of the EAT Foundation. She serves on several executive and advisory boards, such as the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement lead group, CSR board of BT Group, the Advisory Board of Project Drawdown, in addition to the executive board of Nordic Choice Hotel Group. She is a renowned speaker, debater and published scientist. She was named "Woman of the Year 2013" for her environmental work by the Norwegian magazine KK. In 2014, she was ranked among the 100 most influential Norwegian Women by the financial magazine Kapital and was selected as one of 40 people under 40 years to join the "Recharge 4040" initiative, bringing gtogether the world´s foremost young energy pioneers. She was appointed Environmental Hero of the Year by WWF Sweden in 2014, and Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum in 2015. In 2016, she gave a talk on the importance of healing the food systems at the TEDMED conference in Palm Springs.
Gustaf Hugelius is a senior lecturer at the department of Physical Geography at Stockholm University. He is also the vice director of the Bolin Centre of Climate Research and co-lead of the research unit Landscape, Environment and Geomatics. His main scientific interest is the role of soils in the global carbon cycle.
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- Programme Officer, SwedBio
Born in Sweden in 1950, Hans Enocson was President & CEO of GE for the Nordic and Baltic Region (Estonia and Latvia) between 2007-2017 and is currently Senior Advisor. He was primarily responsible for GE's overall growth in the region and acted as the key interface to GE for governmental and corporate relations. He is based in Stockholm, Sweden. Hans has more than 30 years of industrial experience and have served internationally in global responsibilities, working abroad in France and many years in the US. He served 10 years with LKB / Pharmacia - today an important part of GE Healthcare LifeScience in Uppsala, Sweden. Previously he was partner and CEO of leading Swedish management consultancy and responsible for GE Information Services in the Nordic Region. He served on many Nordic GE boards, AmCham Sweden, SAAC NY, Uppsala Innovation Center and served as honorary chairman of the Foreign Investment Council in Latvia (FICIL). From academic perspective he is vice chairman of Örebro University and holds various advisory roles to the University of Uppsala. He is a frequent speaker on topics such as Sustainability, Corporate Governance and Innovation. Hans holds a BA from the University of Stockholm and Program for Executive Development (PED) from IMD Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Director of Swed
- Director, SwedBio
Brundin has an extensive background in leadership, organization management and projects development from both Sweden, eastern- and southern Africa, primarily focusing on Agroforestry and Sustainable Agriculture Land Management (SALM) practices. Project development and implementation include World Bank funded project for developing the first ever methodology for Soil Carbon Offsetting based on Climate Smart Agriculture (SCA).
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- Professor
- Professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and at Stockholm University
- Professor of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Henrik Österblom is professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and at Stockholm University. His work engages with major sustainability challenges
Henrik Österblom is professor of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, where he was appointed the inaugural director of the Anthropocene Laboratory in 2022. He is a member of the scientific advisory council to the RIKEN Institute in Japan (2023-2025) and has been chairing the Natural Capital Partnership Committee at Stanford University since 2022. Henrik has served as scientific advisor to the SARAS Institute in Uruguay (2016-2023).
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- GRP Communications Officer
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- Professor at the Department of Environmental Science at Stockholm
Ilona Riipinen is a professor at the department of Environmental Science at Stockholm University. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and has been on the Clarivate Analytics highly cited researchers list in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Her research focuses on understanding the sources, sinks and evolution of atmospheric aerosol particles and their interactions with clouds, climate and human health.
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- Research Assistant ( Centre Affiliated )
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- Non - Executive Chair of the Board of Investor
- NON - EXECUTIVE CHAIR, INVESTOR
Jacob Wallenberg is the non-Executive Chair of the Board of Investor AB, an anchor lead shareholder of Nordic-based international companies. He is Vice Chairman of ABB Ltd, Ericsson AB, SAS AB/Scandinavian Airlines, FAM AB and Patricia Industries. He also serves on the Boards of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, The Stockholm School of Economics. Mr. Wallenberg is Honorary Chairman of IBLAC, the Mayor of Shanghai's International Business Leaders Advisory Council, Vice-Chairman of SACC-US, the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce US. He is also member of the steering committee of ERT, the European Round Table of Industrialists as well as the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council, Washington DC and the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. He is also a member of the Trilateral Commission as well as the Advisory Board of Tsinghua University.
Jan Eliasson is a well-known Swedish and international diplomat. He was the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) from 1 July 2012 to 31 December 2016. He was elected President of the UN General Assembly, for its sixtieth session 2005-2006. Eliasson served as Swedish State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 2000 and as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2006. In the UN he has been mediator in the Iran/Iraq conflict, in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and in Darfur Sudan, and active for the UN in countries such as Somalia, Mozambique and the Balkans. He has a profound interest in water issues, in particular for the developing world, and was the first chairman of Water Aid, Sweden.The Swedish Government has appointed ambassador Jan Eliasson from June 2017 as the new Chairman of the SIPRI Governing Board. Eliasson was born and raised in Gothenburg. He is married to Kerstin, former State Secretary for Higher Education and Research. They have three grown children and eight grand children.
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- EXECUTIVE CHAIR, BLUE WATER ENERGY
Jerker Johansson co-founded Blue Water Energy in 2011. As Executive Chairman, he works alongside the other co-founding partners to drive the continued growth of the firm and the value creation across the funds BWE manage. Johansson was previously the Global Head of Institutional Equities at Morgan Stanley and then CEO of UBS Investment Bank. Jerker holds an MSc degree in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Johansson serves on the boards of GPS Group, Influit, Stena International S.A., Stena Fastigheter and FAM AB - part of The Wallenberg Foundations. He also chairs Blue water Energy's charitable giving committee as well as JFF (Johansson Family Foundation) and is a Trustee of The Morgan Library and Museum. "
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- GRP Lead of Innovation and Scaling and Lead of GRP Incubator
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- CIGI and CO - FOUNDER BLACKBERRY ( FORMER )
Jim Balsillie (B.Comm. Toronto, FCA Toronto, MBA Harvard) is a former Chairman and co-CEO of Research In Motion (BlackBerry), a Canadian company he scaled from an idea to $20 billion in sales globally. He is a co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) based in New York City and Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) based in Toronto. He currently chairs the Board of Directors of Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) and CCI. He is also the founder of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Arctic Research Foundation. Mr. Balsillie was the only Canadian ever appointed to US Business Council and the sole private sector representative on the UN Secretary General's High Panel for Sustainability. He is the only Canadian member of the US Council on Competitiveness, an internationally renowned voice on innovation strategy, competitiveness and international economic policy. His professional degrees are: B.Comm. Toronto, FCA Toronto, MBA Harvard. His awards include: several honorary degrees, Mobile World Congress Lifetime Achievement Award, India's Priyadarshni Academy Global Award, Time Magazine World's 100 Most Influential People, three times Barron's list of "World's Top CEOs".
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- Researcher ( Centre Affiliate )
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- Member of the Previous
Born in Sweden in 1962, Johan Eliasch is the former Special Representative of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is the Chairman of Equity Partners, Aman Resorts and London Films. Board of directors of the Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment, Longleat and Acasta Enterprises. He is an Advisory board member of Brasilinvest, Societe du Louvre, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Capstar, Centre for Social Justice. He is a member of the Mayors of Jerusalem and Rome's International Business Advisory Councils. He is the first President of the Global Strategy Forum, a trustee of Cool Earth and a patron of Stockholm University. He served on the boards of IMG (2006 - 2013) and the British Paralympics Association, the advisory board of Shimon Peres Peace Centre, World Peace Foundation and British Olympic Association. Non-executive chairman of Starr Managing Agents 2008-2015, Investcorp Europe 2010-2014 and a trustee of the Kew Foundation 2010-2016. Eliasch chaired the Food, Energy and Water security program at RUSI 2010-2016. He is a member of the Mayor of London's (Boris Johnson) International Business Advisory Council 2008-2016. He holds a Bachelor of Economics (Stockholm University) and Master of Science (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm). Eliasch is a Swedish and British citizen.
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- Chairman
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Johan Rockström is the co-director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is is an internationally recognized scientist for his work on global sustainability issues. He helped lead the internationally renowned team of scientists that presented the planetary boundaries framework, first published in 2009, with an update in 2015. The nine planetary boundaries presented in the framework are argued to be fundamental in maintaining a "safe operating space for humanity." This framework has been embraced as an approach to sustainable development, and has been used to help guide governments, international organizations, NGOs, and companies considering sustainable development. Aside from his research helping to guide policy, Rockström acts as an advisor to several governments and business networks. He also acts as an advisor for sustainable development issues at noteworthy international meetings, such as the United Nations General Assemblies, World Economic Forums, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences. Rockström acts as chair of the advisory board for the EAT Foundation, a network that integrates knowledge on food, health, and sustainability to work towards providing environmental limits for healthy diets of the growing global population. Rockström has published over 100 research articles, including articles in Science and Nature, as well as 20 book chapters and four books.
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- Communications Officer, Fundraising
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- National Coordinator - UNESCO 's Man and the Biosphere Programme ( MAB )
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- Officer
- Press and Engagement Officer
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- Professor of Economics at the Institute for International
John Hassler is Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. His research has covered areas of dynamic public finance, social mobility, growth and climate change. Since December 2009, he is serving as a member of the Prize Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He was the Chairman of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council 2013-16.
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- Postdoctoral Researcher ( Centre Affiliate )
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- Post - Doctoral Researcher
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- Member of the Previous
- PRESIDENT, ASIA SOCIETY POLICY INSTITUTE, ( AU ), 26th PRIME MINISTER of AUSTRALIA
The Honorable Kevin Rudd is President of the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI). He served as Australia's 26th Prime Minister (2007-2010, 2013) and as Foreign Minister (2010-2012). He led Australia's response during the Global Financial Crisis, reviewed by the IMF as the most effective stimulus strategy of all member states. Mr. Rudd helped found the G20 to drive the global response to the crisis. Mr. Rudd joined ASPI as its inaugural President in January 2015. ASPI is a "think-do tank" dedicated to using second-track diplomacy to assist governments and businesses in resolving policy challenges within Asia, and between Asia and the West. He served as Chair of the Independent Commission on Multilateralism, a two-year review of the United Nations system, releasing his Chair's Report in August 2016. In 2014, Mr. Rudd was a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is Chair of Sanitation and Water for All, a Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House in London, a Distinguished Statesman with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Paulson Institute in Chicago. Mr. Rudd is a member of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization's Group of Eminent Persons. He is proficient in Mandarin Chinese and serves as a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. In his private capacity, Mr. Rudd established the Australian National Apology Foundation to continue to promote reconciliation and closing the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. He has also established the Asia Pacific Community Foundation to promote the cause of regional economic, security, and environmental collaboration across the region.
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- Professor of Limnology at Uppsala University
Lars Tranvik is a professor of limnology at Uppsala University since 1999. He currently shares his time between research and teaching at the Limnology programme, as well as being head ("prefekt") of the Department of Ecology and Genetics.
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- Financial Controller, Global Resilience Partnership
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- Centre Director
- Director of Stockholm Resilience Centre
- Director of the Centre
- Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre
- Director, Curt Bergfors Professor in Sustainability Scienc
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Centre director Line Gordon on what it will take to produce, consume and manage food more sustainably
Line Gordon's research focuses on water and food systems as key entry points to build Biosphere resilience and improve governance of social-ecological systems, livelihoods, and public health. Her research is problem-oriented, interdisciplinary, and highly collaborative. She often leads and contributes to collaborations that bridge disciplines and technical skills to advance scientific frontiers. Gordon's current research focuses primarily on the role of food system transformation for public and planetary health. This work includes leading the Just transformation working group of the EAT-Lancet 2.0 Commission, developing national Swedish food systems scenarios in the Mistra Food Futures programme, and working on gastronomic landscapes.
She has previously done research on livelihood resilience and ecosystem services in sub-Saharan Africa (Burkina Faso, Tanzania, South Africa, Senegal, and Ghana), and on the critical roles of "invisible water flows" across local to global scales, in particular highlighting how global land use change, and evaporation and precipitation interact.
Line Gordon has an undergraduate in biology. She got her PhD in 2003 in Natural Resources Management, Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University with a dissertation on "Land Use, Freshwater Flows and Ecosystem Services in an Era of Global Change". She was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Colombo, Sri Lanka, working on the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. She has also been a visiting researcher at University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, CIRAD in France, McGill University in Canada, and STIAS - the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in Stellenbosch, South Africa. She was appointed the Curt Bergfors Professor in Sustainability Science with a focus on food systems in 2021.
Line Gordon serves on many different boards and advisory boards, including The Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use and Energy (FABLE) Consortium Advisory Council (since 2022), Governing Board Centre for Sustainability Transitions (CST), Stellenbosch University (since 2021), Advisory Group to the Swedish Committee on food system research, Formas (2021), Vice Chair Board of the Stockholm University Centre for Circular Systems (SUCCeSS) (since 2020); Earth League steering committee (since 2020); Board of Trustees of EAT Foundation (since 2016), International Advisory Council of Global Resilience Partnership (since 2018), Prize Jurys of Stockholm Water Prize (since 2018) and the Food Planet Prize (since 2020); Scientific and Technical committee for the Culinary Institute of Americas Menus of Change (2018-2021); Advisor Ecosystem Services and Resilience Working Group of the CGIAR Water, Land and Ecosystems program (2012-2014); Scientific Program Committee for the Stockholm World Water Week (2009-2014); Swedish National Committee for IGBP and WCRP hosted by the Royal Academy of Sciences (2004-2006).
Line Gordon is the director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre. She is is an internationally recognised scientist in sustainability of water, food, and the biosphere. As a researcher, Gordon is particularly interested in how intentional and unintentional actions in one place can influence systemic change elsewhere. In research she integrates insights from resilience thinking, land use change, food systems, hydrology, and social-ecological systems.
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- Finance and Agreement Officer, GRP
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- Deputy Director
- Director of Education
- Centre Deputy Director
- Deputy Director for the Stockholm Resilience Centre
- Deputy Director of Stockholm Resilience Centre
Centre deputy director Lisen Schultz, director of the Executive Programme on Resilience Thinking, has been included on the list of most influential women within the Swedish business sector
Lisen Schultz is deputy director for the Stockholm Resilience Centre, director of education and the programme director for the centre's Executive programme in resilience thinking
Schultz was appointed Deputy Director of Stockholm Resilience Centre on 1 July 2023. Lisen Schultz's new appointment adds to her roles as Director of Education and the Programme Director for the centre's Executive programme in resilience thinking. Lisen Schultz has been part of the centre's leadership group since 2018. Schultz holds a PhD in Natural Resource Management from Stockholm University, and was awarded the title of Docent (Associate Professor) in 2023.
She is an appreciated teacher who often gives lectures at universities as well as to companies, governmental bodies, civic associations and the public. She is the course coordinator of Sustainability Science I & II. Subjects of her lectures include: sustainability, biosphere reserves, adaptive governance, adaptive co-management, resilience assessments, qualitative methods, surveys, social-ecological inventories, ecosystem services, and facilitation.
Schultz holds a PhD in Natural Resource Management from Stockholm University, awarded in 2009. Her PhD research focused on the management of ecosystem services in the Swedish wetland area Kristianstads Vattenrike, exploring how local farmers, the municipality and county board, and local associations engaged and interacted with each other and the landscape. This research contributed to the Swedish Sub-global assessment in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Kristianstads Vattenrike was designated a UNESCO biosphere reserve in 2005, which opened an opportunity for comparisons of governance processes and outcomes across the world network of biosphere reserves.
During her post-doctoral research, she coordinated the development of the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) and initiated a research project on diversity and collaboration for ecosystem management ,funded by Ebba och Sven Schwartz Stiftelse (2011-2016). She also initiated two research projects funded by the Swedish Research Council: GLEAN (A global survey of learning and participation in ecosystem management, 2011-2017) and BiosACM (Diagnosing processes and outcomes in adaptive co-management, 2013-2017).
Through case studies and international surveys, these projects explored how biosphere reserves in different regions operate as learning sites for sustainable development and as bridging organizations connecting diverse interests and knowledge systems in adaptive co-management. In 2013 she received funding from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency together with colleagues at the SRC, for a project that continued and expanded on the studies of Kristianstads Vattenrike through a participatory resilience assessment of the Helgeå river drainage basin.
Throughout Schultz's career, she has engaged in the interface between science and society, bringing knowledge to action in processes ranging from municipal planning to international negotiations. For example, she has done research on ecosystem services and on biosphere reserves for Agenda 2030 with the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, she has conducted resilience assessments with Swedish biosphere reserves and municipalities, and she assisted the Swedish delegation in the early negotiations on establishing the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Furthermore, she helped design and facilitate the second dialogue of the SeaBOS initiative, and has designed and delivered multiple commissioned education programmes to companies.
Lisen Schultz is deputy director for the Stockholm Resilience Centre, director of education, and the programme director for the centre's Executive programme in resilience thinking. Schultz holds a PhD in Natural Resource Management from Stockholm University, and was awarded the title of Docent (Associate Professor) in 2023. Throughout Schultz's career, she has engaged in the interface between science and society, bringing knowledge to action in processes ranging from municipal planning to international negotiations.
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- Programme Officer, Swedbio
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- Communications Strategist
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- Director of Studies ( PhD Level )
- Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre
- Science Director, Professor
Magnus Nyström is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. His work explores resilience and cross-scale dynamics in marine ecosystems and coupled social-ecological systems at local and global scales. Nyström has published his work in several highly ranked scientific journals, such as Nature, Science, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Ecology Letters, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, among others.
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- Professor
- Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre
Maja Schlüter is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Her research focusses on social-ecological interactions and mechanisms that may explain SES phenomena, such as the collapse of the Baltic Sea cod, the trapped situation of water management in Uzbekistan, the diversity of self-governance forms in Mexican small-scale fisheries, or cooperation in common pool resource management. In collaboration with members of the SES-LINK team and empirical colleagues, she uses mathematical and agent-based modeling to test hypotheses about micro-level causes of observed SES phenomena and to explore consequences of selected human-nature interactions.
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- Researcher ( Centre Affiliate )
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- Professor, Principal Researcher
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- Associate Professor ( Centre Affiliate )
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- Director of Transdisciplinary Education & Deputy Science Director
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- Director
- Director of Studies ( Bachelor and Master 's Level )
- Director of Studies ( Bachelor and Master Level ) & Master 's Programme ( SERSD ) Director:
Miriam Huitric, the centre's director of studies, reflects on teaching, time and murder mysteries
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- CEO, Global Resilience Partnership
Nielja Sofia Knecht is a PhD student at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
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- CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico
- Chairman, ATOMICO & ZENNSTRÖM PHILANTHROPIES
Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa and Joltid. In 2006, Zennström founded the venture capital firm, Atomico, to help entrepreneurs, primarily from Europe, to scale their businesses globally. Atomico has partnered with and supported a growing number of highly successful technology companies, including Supercell, Klarna, Rovio, ofo and many more. It raised its fourth fund in 2016, which was the largest independent venture capital fund ever raised in Europe. In addition to overseeing Atomico's strategy, he works closely with a number of founders of portfolio companies and sits on the boards of Rovio, Mapillary, Pipedrive, Truecaller and Farmdrop. Niklas is most excited about founders that are solving major world problems using digital technology. Niklas Zennström helps support the European tech ecosystem as President of the European Tech Alliance (EUTA), a group of fast-growing tech companies that have all been built in Europe. In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They invest strategically in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas focuses primarily on sustainability projects, supporting organisations that are tackling issues such as climate change and the state of the oceans. The foundation is also funding a professorship at Uppsala University to establish an academic environment focused on climate change leadership. Zennström also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world. He is also a keen yachtsman, and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán. Zennström holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.
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- Process Lead and Research Assistant
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- Researcher ( Centre Affiliate )
Born in Sweden in 1964, Olof Persson was the president and CEO of the Volvo Group between 2011 and 2015. He has also been a member of the board since 2011 and a member of the Volvo Group executive team since 2006. Between 2013-17 he was also Chairman of the German-Swedish Chamber of Commerce. During 2014-15 Persson was Vice Chairman of UN High Level Advisory Board for Sustainable Transportation reporting to the Secretary General. In 2015-16, Persson was Advisory Board member to the Swedish Minister of Enterprise and Innovation´s group to promote Sweden as an attractive environment for advanced industrial operations. Olof Persson began his career at ABB in 1988 and, among other assignments, held a number of executive positions at AdTranz and Daimler-Chrysler. In 2004, he was appointed the president of the mainline and metros division of Bombardier Inc., where he remained until 2006, when he was offered the job as president and CEO of Volvo Aero. In 2008, Persson was made the president and CEO of Volvo Construction Equipment in Brussels, until his appointment as president of the entire group. Today he is Chairman of New Wave Group, a listed company with an annual turnover of 4.200 MSEK. He is steering committee chair for the program "Innovation in Forest Industry" at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Olof Persson holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Karlstad University.
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- Financial Controller & Administrator, Swedbio
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- Professor of Economics at Stockholm University
Per Krusell is professor of Economics at Stockholm University (with the Savings Banks Foundations and Swedbank Chair in Macroeconomics). Until recently, he was a Professor of Economics at Princeton University and, before that, held positions at the University of Rochester, the University of Pennsylvania, and Northwestern University. Krusell's research has focused on macroeconomics, broadly defined, with particular contributions in the areas of technological change, inequality, political economy, macroeconomic policy, and labor economics
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- Deputy Science Director, Associate Professor
- Research at the Stockholm Resilience Centre
Per Olsson is a research at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. His research focuses on agency and system entrepreneurship, social-ecological innovations, transformations to sustainability, and how to reverse current trends of crossing critical thresholds and tipping points in the Earth system. He is an active member of the Resilience Alliance, and a subject editor for the journal Ecology and Society.
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- Research Assistant ( Centre Affiliate )
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- Programme Coordinator, SwedBio
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- Chairman of the Pontus Schultz Foundation
- CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, AXEL JOHNSON
Sara Öhrvall is the Chair of the Pontus Schultz Foundation, supporting business initiatives for improved sustainability, diversity and equality. She currently works COO for Axel Johnson and is also a Board Director of Investor AB, SEB, Vinnova, the Swedish government innovation agency, the Nobel Museum and Umeå University. Her previous experiences include Bonnier, the leading Nordic media group of 175 companies in 15 countries where she was part of the Executive Management as Senior Vice President, Research & Development, leading the digital transformation of the media group. During two years, she was based in San Francisco, starting up Bonnier's R&D-initiative in the US. Sara was Product Development Director at Volvo Cars, where she was responsible for the development of jeep hybrids, sports and sustainability focused car concepts.
Sara has previously co-founded and managed two successful consulting firms. She was the CEO and partner of the management consulting firm Differ and founder of the innovation-focused consulting firm Ninety. Sara has worked in Tokyo, London, Singapore and Brussels. Sara writes columns about technology trends in Dagens Industri, the leading financial daily newspaper in Sweden. In 2017 she was included in the top 50 most inspiring female influencers in Europe, by Inspiring Fifty. She has previously been selected as one of 10 Change-Makers in Media by MIN USA and Europe's 100 Future Business Leaders by Wall Street Journal. Sara has a Master Degree from Umeå Business School in Sweden and also studied the Executive Leadership Program at Duke University and architecture and design at Parsons School of Design in New York.
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- Associate Professor
- Principal Researcher
- Principal Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre
Sarah Cornell is a principal researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. She is involved in several forums where sustainability science interfaces with policy, business and wider society. She is active in the growing international network of policy-engaged researchers working to advance planetary boundaries science and operationalization
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- Researcher ( Centre Affiliate )
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- Communications Officer, Fairtrans
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- Finance and Human Resources Administrator ( Centre Affiliated )
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- Principal Researcher ( Centre Affiliate )
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- Associate Professor
- Principal Researcher
- Program Director
Thomas Hahn leads a large collaborative research program for climate action and transformation with civil society organisations (FAIRTRANS)
Hahn is Associate Professor in environmental social science, specialised in ecological economics. His research focuses on ecological and institutional economics in relation to ecosystem services, climate action, sustainability transformation, post-growth economy, and adaptive governance of social-ecological systems.
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- Associate Professor
- Principal Researcher
- Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre
Thorsten Blenckner is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He has a strong interest in whole ecosystem processes and multiple stressors, the complexity of for example the Baltic Sea ecosystem. He is also involved in the ICES Working Group on Integrated Assessments of the Baltic Sea.
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- Associate Professor
- Principal Researcher
- Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre
Tim Daw is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He studies the ecosystem contributions to human wellbeing, and the role of deliberation in governing sustainable development. Daw's speciality is in coastal systems in the Global South, their governance, the ecosystem services they provide, and how these contribute to people's wellbeing.
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- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer
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- Associate Professor & Director of PhD Programm
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- Researcher ( Centre Affiliate )
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson was the President of Iceland for twenty years, 1996-2016; elected five times in nationwide elections. He now serves as the Chairman of the Arctic Circle, which he founded in 2013 with various Arctic partners. The Arctic Circle Assembly held in Iceland every October has become the largest annual international gathering on the Arctic. Prior to becoming President, Grímsson served as Minister of Finance, Member of Parliament, and was the first Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland. In the 1980s and early 1990s, he was the President of Parliamentarians for Global Action. For decades, Grímsson has been an active participant in the global climate dialogue and during his Presidency initiated and promoted clean energy projects in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, the United States and the Americas; especially using Icelandic achievements and technologies as a model. He has also worked closely with Abu Dhabi in its clean energy program and serves as Chairman of the Jury of the Zayed Future Energy Prize. Grímsson serves on the Advisory Board of Sustainable Energy for All, created by the United Nations and the World Bank. In addition to devoting his post-presidential efforts to the three areas of climate, the Arctic and clean energy, Grímsson is also involved in international cooperation on the oceans and the sustainable use of marine resources. He has received many international awards, including the Nehru Award for International Understanding, presented by the President of India; and has lectured at universities in many countries.
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- Professor, Head of Subject