Johanna Eliasson

Johanna Eliasson is an Events Assistant at SIPRI, supporting the organization of conferences and events such as Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development and Stockholm Security Conference. She has previously interned at the Communications department at the institute and has conducted outreach work at the Embassy of Sweden in Tokyo as well as serving as a writer, critic and intermittent editor for the Swedish music webpage Festivalrykten for four years. She has also worked with online marketing and SEO efforts for a small startup based in London.

Johanna has a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology, with a minor in Ethnology. The major thesis conducted within this programme is highlighting discourse themes of social institutions, contrasted groups, individualism, collectivism and agency that emerge from the pages of the sustainability communication material of a global fashion retail company.