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Karolina Eklöw
Project Coordinator
Karolina Eklöw
Karolina Eklöw joined SIPRI in 2018 after working at the Mission of Sweden to the UN in New York. Her research built on the efforts to establish an institutional framework for addressing climate risks within the UN and EU. She published reports on multilateral policy and the evidence base for climate-related risks, and was invited to present her findings at the UN Security Council in 2020. From 2020 to 2022, she served as the Project Coordinator for SIPRI’s flagship initiative Environment of Peace, facilitating the work of the research team as well as the international Expert Panel.
Subject expertise
Multilateral governance; Innovation
Regional expertise
Global
Languages
Swedish, English, Spanish, Mandarin
Education
B.Sc. Political Science and Chinese Studies, University of Gothenburg
Affiliations
- Governing Body Member of the Global Shapers Community, World Economic Forum 2024-2026
- Advisor to United Nations, Council of Europe, European Commission, ITU as well as private sector companies
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Surveillance as slow violence: Experiences from young environmental activists (Blog, )
- Climate Security in times of geopolitical crises—what ways forward? (Blog, )
- Towards climate resilient peacebuilding: Understanding the complexities (Blog, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2022)
- Enabling an Environment of Peace: Environment of Peace (Part 4) (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2022)
- Security Risks of Environmental Crises: Environment of Peace (Part 2) (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2022)
- Climate Security: Making it #Doable (Clingendael and SIPRI, The Hague, Stockholm: 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)