Lisa Emelia Svensson
Lisa Emelia Svensson (born ) is a Swedish diplomat who serves as the Global director at the UN Environment office in Nairobi. She was previously her country's ambassador for Ocean.
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Nationality | Sweden |
Education | University of Gothenburg |
Occupation | Ambassador |
Employer | United Nations |
Life
Svensson and her for siblings were brought up in a rural environment that was focussed more on the sea than on their home in Bohuslän.[1] Bohuslän is the most western part of Sweden on the border with Norway.
Svensson has a doctorate in business administration[2]/political economy.[3] In 2002 she joined Swedens diplomatic service serving in American and Belgium. She has been a diplomat-in-residence looking at Climate Change while at Johns Hopkins University.[4] In 2008 she published Combating Climate Change: A Transatlantic Approach to Common Solutions. The book described the state of progress informed by a 2007 conference "California-European Dialogue on Climate Change."[5]
She led the European communities negotiations regarding sustainable development aspects of agreements with ASEAN, MERCOSUR and China.[6]
She was the Ambassador for Corporate Social Responsibility in her country's Ministry for Foreign Affairs.[2] Later she was Sweden's Ambassador for the Ocean being responsible for government advice on international ocean related issues.[4]
Svensson was offered the role as the Global director for Ocean for the United Nations Environment office in 2017[1] where she is responsible for their work on both marine and coast ecology.[4] She is based in Nairobi in Kenya.[1]
References
- "Meet Lisa Emilia Svensson, the United Nations Global Director for Oceans". Investingothenburg. 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
- "Biography - Lisa Emelia Svensson". www.esbri.se. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
- "Dr Lisa Emelia Svensson". naturalcapitalforum.com. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
- "Lisa Emelia Svensson GGSD 2017 Forum" (PDF). oecd. 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- Svensson, Lisa (2008). Combating Climate Change: A Transatlantic Approach to Common Solutions. Center for Transatlantic Relations, The Johns Hopkins University. ISBN 978-0-9801871-1-3.
- "Nobel Week Dialogue". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2020-02-25.