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Karolina Eklöw
POSITION AT SIPRI
Project Coordinator
Karolina Eklöw
Karolina Eklöw is the Coordinator of the Environment of Peace initiative at SIPRI. She joined the institute in August 2018 as a Research Assistant with the Climate Change and Risk Programme. Her research focuses on multilateral policy 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 three months of field research in Colombia. 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
Languages
Swedish, English, Spanish, Mandarin
Education
B.A. Political Science, University of Gothenburg
Citizenship
Sweden
Finland
Affiliations
- Advisor to the Swedish think tank Global Challenges (Global Utmaning)
- Curator of the Stockholm Hub of the Global Shapers Community. The Global Shapers Community is 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)