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Karolina Eklöw
POSITION AT SIPRI
Research Assistant
Karolina Eklöw
Karolina Eklöw is a Research Assistant with the SIPRI Climate Change and Risk Programme. Her focus spans comprehensive security, climate diplomacy and institutional responses to climate-related security risks.
During her studies in Political Science she was an exchange student in China and Spain, worked at a start-up in Washington D.C and conducted field research in Colombia. Prior to joining SIPRI, Karolina interned at UNDP as well as at the Mission of Sweden to the UN in New York, during its membership in the Security Council.
Subject expertise
Climate security; Human security; United Nations; 2030 Agenda
Regional expertise
Global
CONTACT Karolina Eklöw
Phone number
+46 73 329 13 58
Languages
Swedish, English, Spanish, Mandarin
Education
B.A. Political Science, University of Gothenburg
Citizenship
Sweden
Finland
Affiliations
- Future thinker and Advisor to the Swedish think tank Global Challenges (Global Utmaning)
- Global Shaper, an initiative by the World Economic Forum
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Climate Security in times of geopolitical crises—what ways forward? (Blog, February 2019)
- Towards climate resilient peacebuilding: Understanding the complexities (Blog, October 2018)
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Climate Security – Making it #Doable (Clingendael and SIPRI: February 2019)
- Climate-related security risks and peacebuilding in Somalia (SIPRI, Stockholm: October 2019)
- Advancing United Nations Responses to Climate-related Security Risks (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2019)