Henrik Carlsen

Henrik Carlsen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Programme Director of Mistra Geopolitics. Currently Dr. Henrik Carlsen is leading the Mistra Geopolitics research theme Foresight Capabilities and Emerging Technologies. He is an expert on decision making under uncertainty, with an emphasis on climate change adaptation. His research interests are based on the intersection between science and policy on long-term challenges to society.

Niklas Bremberg

Niklas Bremberg is an Associate Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University. Niklas is leading the Research School of Mistra Geopolitics. His research includes international relations, European integration, security communities and communities of practice, EU foreign and security policy, international cooperation on climate-related security risks, Euro-Mediterranean relations, and Spanish politics.

Bengt Johansson

Bengt Johansson is a senior lecturer at Environmental and Enregy Systems studies at Lund University. His research deals with the transformation of the energy system, with a specific analysis on how energy and climate policies affect this transformation. Bengt is leading Work Package 4; The inter-relationships between shifting geopolitical landscapes and the SDGs.

Victoria Wibeck

Victoria Wibeck is a professor at Linköping University. The overarching aim of her research is to analyze challenges and opportunities involved, as science-based knowledge on environment, climate and new and emerging technologies move from the scientific arena to recontextualization, such as in political decisions, implementation of environmental objectives at different societal levels, media, and citizens’ everyday decisions. Victoria is leading Work Package 5; Foresight – Sweden in a changing, geopolitical landscape.

Nina von Uexküll

Nina von Uexkull is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. Nina is leading the Mistra Geopolitics research theme Food Security in the second programme phase. Her main research areas are the impacts of climate change and natural hazards on armed conflict and human security.

Lisa Dellmuth

Lisa Dellmuth is a Professor of International Relations at Stockholm University. Lisa is leading the Research School of Mistra Geopolitics. Her research focuses on legitimacy and redistribution in global governance, and global climate change solutions. She leads the 5-year research program GlocalClim (Glocalizing Climate Governance: The role of Integrated Governance for a Just and Legitimate Adaptation to Climate Risks) funded by the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas).

Håvard Hegre

Håvard Hegre is a Professor at the department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. His research areas focus on development, democratization, peace, armed conflict, climate change and measurement of democracy. Håvard is performing research within Mistra Geopolitics’ Foresight and Emerging Technologies research theme.

Andreas Duit

Andreas Duit is a Professor at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm Univeristy. He works in the field of comparative environmental politics, with a special focus on governamce and complexity, institutional theory, and the role of the state in addressing environmental problems. Andreas is a researcher in Work Package 3; Governance reposonses to environmental related security risks.

Magnus Benzie

Magnus Benzie, Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), is focusing on climate change adaptation. His research includes 15 years of professional experience in climate change research with a focus on climate impacts, vulnerability, risk and adapatation. Magnus is active in decarbonization, and previously within the work package ‘Impact pathways in a changing environmental and geopolitical context’.

Karin Bäckstrand

Karin Bäckstrand is a professor at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. Her research revolves around global environmental politics, the role of science in environmental decision-making, the politics of climate change and the democratic legitimacy of global governance. Karin is a member of the Swedish Government’s Climate Policy Council (Klimatpolitiska rådet) and a Mistra Geopolitics researcher in Work Package 3; Governance responses to environmental related security risks.

Maria-Therese Gustafsson

Maria-Therese Gustafsson is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. Prominent themes in her research are natural resource governance, political participation, and climate security. She has published a research monography Private Politics and Peasant Mobilization: Mining in Peru (Palgrave MacMillan), articles in Third World Quarterly, WIRE Climate Change, the Latin American Research Review and Canadian Journal of Development Studies, and has edited two anthologies. She is a researcher in Work Package 3 and heads the Research School in the Mistra Geopolitics programme.

Professor Björn-Ola Linnér

Björn-Ola Linnér is the Deputy Programme Director of Mistra Geopolitics and Professor at the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research at Linköping University. He analyses how the political processes and actors affect conditions for social changes towards sustainable development in different parts of the world. He has a long experience in research dialogues with various societal actors, such as the climate convention’s secretariat, governments, businesses and environmental organizations.

André Månberger

André Månberger is an associate senior lecturer at Lund University. He lectures in various courses at the department of environmental and energy systems studies. The overarching theme of his research is the interaction between security and sustainable development. André is a researcher in Work Package 4; The inter-relationships between shifting geopolitical landscapes and the SDGs.

Sara Talebian

Sara Talebian is a research fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), focusing on foresight methodologies. Her research includes academic and professional experience in futures studies with a focus on explorative and qualitative scenario techniques and futures visioning. Sara is leading Work Package 6; Engagement, Synthesis and Rapid Response

Taylor Dimsdale

Taylor Dimsdale is a Program Director at E3G in the area of Risk & Resilience. He works on several programmes including climate risk and security, the geopolitics of decarbonization, sustainable finance, and climate diplomacy. In Mistra Geopolitics, he works on the geopolitics of decarbonization.

Daria Ivleva

Daria Ivleva is a Senior Advisor and Co-Lead of the Climate Policy Programme at Adelphi. In Mistra Geopolitics, she works on the geopolitics of decarbonization.

Timothy Suljada

Timothy Suljada is Acting Head of the Climate, Energy and Society Unit at Stockholm Environment Institute. He is a policy analyst and project manager, specializing in the fields of energy, climate change and development. Tim is engaged in the Mistra Geopolitics research theme the geopolitics of decarbonization and led this theme 2017-2020.

Dennis Tänzler

Dennis Tänzler is Director of International Climate Policy at adelphi. His research focuses on climate and energy policies as well as on peace and conflict studies. In Mistra Geopolitics, he works on geopolitics of decarbonization.

Claudia Strambo

Claudia Strambo is a Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute. Her research interests include energy transition and sustainable development policy in emerging economies, international environmental regimes, and theory of international environmental politics. In Mistra Geopolitics, she works on geopolitics of decarbonization.

Kevin Adams

Kevin M. Adams is an international climate policy expert at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD student at the Grantham Research Institute. Kevin’s research focus primarily on global climate politics, particularly climate finance. Kevin worked as a Research Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) 2017–2021 and contributed to Mistra Geopolitics using foresight methods to explore Sweden’s role in a changing geopolitical landscape.

Åsa Persson

Åsa Persson is Research Director and Deputy Director at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Her expertise includes environmental governance and policies, Climate change adaptation and the SDGs.

Eva Lövbrand

Eva Lövbrand is a senior lecturer at Linköping University. Her research focuses on the knowledge politics of the environment. She explores how ideas, knowledge claims and expert practices are enacted, legitimated and used in global environmental politics and governance. Eva contributed with her research in the Mistra Geopolitics programme phase I, Geopolitics and Security in the Anthropocene.

Malin Mobjörk

Dr Malin Mobjörk was a Senior Researcher and Director of SIPRI’s Climate Change and Risk Programme from 2016 to 2021. Malin’s expertise focuses on the intersection of climate change, security and development and how policy organizations are responding to climate-related security risks. Currently, Malin Mobjörk work at Formas.

Frida Lager

Frida Lager is a Research Associate at SEI Headquarters. Within Mistra Geopolitics, Frida is engaged in research on transboundary climate risk for Sweden via trade. Within SEI’s climate, energy and society unit she focuses on transboundary effects of climate change and climate change adaptation.

Karina Barquet

Karina Barquet is a Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute. Karina is part of the Sustainable Oceans theme within Mistra Geopolitics, where she’s leading the geopolitics of the blue economy project. Her research at SEI focuses on the political dimensions of coastal governance, including disaster risk reduction, water security, and critical infrastructures in coastal planning.

Elin Leander

Elin works as a Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute in the Water, Coasts and Ocean Team. Elin contributes to the Mistra Geopolitics research theme sustainable oceans, and previously worked as the Project Manager for the programme.

Anders Hansson

Anders Hansson is an Associate Professor at Linköping University. In Mistra Geopolitics he’s performing research on deep sea mining within the research theme Sustainable Oceans.

Karen Meijer

Karen Meijer is a Senior Researcher in SIPRI’s climate change and risk programme. Her research focus on the role and effectiveness of national and international actors when addressing climate-related security risks. She leads the Mistra Geopolitics Work Package 2 on Sustainable Oceans, and contributes to Project 4.4: How can humanitarian aid be improved in a changing climate?

Emilie Broek

Emilie Broek is a Research Assistant with SIPRI’s Climate Change and Risk Programme. Her research focuses on international organizations and their responses to climate-related security risks. She is a part of Work Package 2 on Sustainable Oceans, working specifically on Project 2.3: Geopolitical Impacts on State and Stakeholder Views on Arctic Governance.

Patricio Calles

Patricio Calles is a Research Assistant at the Stockholm Environment Institute – Latin America. He supports research programmes on fossil fuel transitions and carbon lock-in. He is particularly interested in regional integration approaches to natural resources management. In Mistra Geopolitics, he works on the geopolitics of decarbonization.

Franco Vaccarino

Franco Vaccarino is a transnational Italian who grew up in South Africa and is now living in Aotearoa New Zealand. He lectures in the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing at Massey University’s Manawatū campus. He has been involved in climate-related research projects in Fiji. In Mistra Geopolitics, he works on the Small-Island States: ‘Geopolitics of Marginality’ project.

Professor Fredrik Heintz

Fredrik Heintz is a Professor of Computer Science at Linköping University, where he leads the Reasoning and Learning lab. His research focus is artificial intelligence, especially Trustworthy AI and the intersection between machine reasoning and machine learning. His research within Mistra Geopolitics contribute to the theme Foresight Capabilities and Emerging Technologies.

Fredrik is a Director of the Wallenberg AI and Transformative Technologies Education Development Program (WASP-ED), Director of the Graduate School of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP). He is a President of the Swedish AI Society and Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).

Cleo Verkuijl

Cleo Verkuijl is a researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute, based in Oxford. Her research focuses on legal and political dimensions of international climate change governance, including ways to increase ambition and action to address the supply of fossil fuels; and to move towards more sustainable and compassionate food systems. In Mistra Geopolitics, she works on the geopolitics of decarbonization.

Therese Bennich

Therese Bennich is the Project Manager of the Mistra Geopolitics programme and Research Fellow at SEI Headquarters. Her research focus is on decision support in relation to sustainability initiatives and frameworks such as the UN 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Elisa Arond

Elisa Arond is a Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute – Latin America in Bogotá, Colombia, where she leads the Just Energy Transitions group. Elisa’s research interests include carbon lock-in, extractive industries governance, sustainability transitions, and innovation policy to support inclusive transitions from fossil fuels, with a focus on producing regions in Colombia and Latin America. In Mistra Geopolitics, she works on geopolitics of decarbonization.

Vincent Boulanin

Vincent Boulanin is a Senior Researcher at SIPRI. He joined SIPRI in 2014, where he works on issues related to the production, use and control of emerging military and security technologies, notably autonomous weapon systems and cyber-security technologies.

Florian Krampe

Florian Krampe is a Senior Researcher and Director of SIPRI’s Climate Change and Risk Programme, specializing in peace and conflict research, environmental and climate security, and international security.

Somya Joshi

Somya Joshi is Head of Unit – Governance and Institutions, at SEI Headquarters. Here her main focus lies on developing her team’s research capacity around decision making, stakeholder engagement, technology and process innovation towards realizing the sustainable development goals.

Anna Michalski

Anna Michalski is an Associate Professor at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, and a Senior Associate Senior Researcher at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs. She is the chair of the Swedish Network for European Studies in Political Science and a member of the Swedish Network for Foreign Policy Analysis. Her teaching and research interests span over international relations and European politics.

Farah Hegazi

Dr Farah Hegazi is a Researcher in SIPRI’s Climate Change and Risk programme. Her research focuses on identifying and understanding climate-related security risks, and how interventions to address the effects of climate change can be used to build peace. She is currently working on evaluating how climate-related security risks affect peacekeeping missions, and on how the World Food Programme’s climate-related interventions can potentially contribute to peace. She is a part of the Food Security theme within Mistra Geopolitics.

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

Almut Schilling‐Vacaflor is as a Postdoc at Osnabrück University and as an Associate Researcher at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies. Her research covers environmental governance, business and human rights, global supply chains, Indigenous peoples and FPIC, extractive industries and the agribusiness in Latin America. Almut is part of the Food Security theme within Mistra Geopolitics.

Her work has been published by journals like World Development, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Regulation & Governance, Ecology & Society, Global Environmental Politics, Development and Change and Third World Quarterly. 

Elizabeth Smith

Elizabeth Smith is a research assistant in SIPRI’s Climate Change and Risk Programme. Her research focuses on gender, climate security and peacebuilding.  Elizabeth is part of the Food Security theme within Mistra Geopolitics.

Elise Remling

Dr. Elise Remling is a researcher in SIPRI’s climate change and risk programme. Elise’s expertise focuses on how climate and environmental change impact on human security, and on how policy organizations are responding to climate-related security risks.

Nicholas Olczak

Nicholas Olczak is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Economic History and International Relations at Stockholm University. He is also an associate fellow of the Asia Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). His research interests include East Asian international relations, global governance and international cooperation on climate change, and constructivist theory.

Kim Kyungmee

Kyungmee Kim is a Researcher in SIPRI’s climate change and risk programme and contributes to Mistra Geopolitics on the role of AI in advancing sustainable development goals (Project 4.2). Her research interest includes the relationship between climate change and violent conflict and the local responses to climate change in conflict settings.

Genevieve Metson

Genevieve Metson is an Associate professor at Linköping University. Her research focuses on how to better manage nutrients (phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium, and carbon) in diverse socio-ecological contexts. Genevieve is part of the Food Security theme within Mistra Geopolitics.

Bwalya Chibwe

Bwalya Chibwe is the programme manager for Mistra Geopolitics at Linköping University and the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research.

Ronan Palmer

Ronan Palmer is the Associate Director for E3G’s clean economy programme. His portfolio aims to support the transition of the economy to net zero. Ronan contributes with his expertise in the Mistra Geopolitics decarbonization theme.