Swedish National Committee for Global Environmental Change

Katarina Gårdfeldt

Chair

Katarina is the Director of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, a Swedish government agency with the mission to coordinate and promoting Swedish polar research. She is a chemist, specializing in inorganic environmental chemistry. Katarina's research focuses on global transport and transformation of environmental pollutants in air and water, with a particular focus on mercury and microplastics in the Arctic and Antarctic.

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Eva Friman

Eva is a researcher at the Centre for Health and Sustainability, Uppsala University and an Adjunct Professor at the Sustainability Research Centre at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Eva's research and teaching interests focus on equity, ecological sustainability, global exchange and transformative learning from transdisciplinary, ecological economic and political ecology perspectives.

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Jesper Stage

Jesper is Professor of Economics at Luleå University of Technology. His research focuses on environmental and natural resource economics and his research has two main tracks. He has been researching economic aspects of environmental and natural resource management in the global South, especially in Africa, since his PhD. For the last fifteen years, he has also researched socio-economic aspects of water and ocean management in Sweden.

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Jan Karlsson

Jan's research focuses on impacts of climate change on the biogeochemistry and ecology of lake and stream ecosystems.

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Gesa Weyhenmeyer

Gesa Weyhenmeyer is a professor at the Department of Ecology and Genetics/Limnology at Uppsala University who researches and teaches about global change and its impact on aquatic ecosystems. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Sciences and is active in several major national and international research projects as well as in the UN Climate Panel.

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Nina Wormbs

Professor in History of Technology, Vice Dean of Faculty, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Nina Wormbs has studied media history and digitalisation and is now focusing on the environmental humanities of climate change. She communicates research through the daily press and public service radio and collaborates with society as a member of steering committees and commissions.

Recent publications include with Wolrath Söderberg, “Thinking structures of climate delay: Internal deliberations among Swedes with sustainable ambitions”, Enviro, Dev and Sustain (2023).

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Max Troell

Max is an Associate Professor at the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics. He mainly researches sustainable food systems, especially the role of seafood and aquaculture in our future food supply. Max is Programme Manager for ‘Aquaculture and Sustainable Seafood’ at the Beijer Institute at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but is also a senior researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.

With a background in systems and marine ecology, he has worked on sustainability issues from a broader social-ecological perspective. His work spans several dimensions of sustainability linked to aquatic systems and resources - including how aquaculture and fisheries are linked. But he also studies the links between marine and terrestrial production, and how climate and globalisation create both opportunities and challenges.

He has contributed to the EAT-Lancet commission and had a leading role in the ”Blue Food Assessment” and is now leading work within SeaBOS focusing on antibiotic use in aquaculture.

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Rolf Lidskog

Rolf is Professor of Sociology at Örebro University. His research is in the fields of environmental sociology, sociology of risk and sociology of science, and his research has two main tracks. One is on the role of science in international environmental regulation, particularly in the areas of climate change and biodiversity. The other is on risk perceptions, scientific uncertainty and institutional credibility. He has been (2018-23) Vice President of the Environmental Sociology Research Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA).

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Georgia Destouni

Georgia (Gia) Destouni is Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on the flow, quality and storage of water in various forms on and below the ground and their integration into a coherent water system on land and interactions with the atmosphere, climate, ocean and various societal, environmental and ecosystem conditions around the world. Gia is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens, Greece.

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Björn-Ola Linnér

Björn-Ola Linnér is Professor at Tema-M Environmental Change and at the Centre for Climate Policy Research at Linköping University. He researches international policies on climate, biodiversity and sustainable development. In particular, he is interested in how geopolitical developments create new challenges and opportunities for societies around the world to transition towards sustainable development.

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