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Experience

SUMMARY

  • 25 years’ experience of international investment law and policy, including international investment agreements (IIAs)/bilateral investment treaties (BITs).

  • Consulting with international development organizations, including the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank.

  • 25 years’ experience of advocacy for legal reform in national and international settings

  • 10 years’ experience of climate change law including climate disputes.

  • 15 years’ experience of UNCITRAL, UNCTAD and OECD engagements as an expert, speaker, and institutional observer in working groups and ad hoc upon invitation.

  • 25 years’ experience of project management in an international setting.

  • Experienced speaker and writer on climate change and international law.

CAREER

  • CEO & Co-Founder, Climate Change Counsel (2021 – present)

  • Secretary General, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (2010 – 2021)

  • Senior Associate, Mannheimer Swartling (2007 – 2010)

  • Senior Associate, Baker & McKenzie (2005 – 2006)

  • Legal Counsel, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (1998 – 2005)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

  • LLM, University of Stockholm (1998)

  • B.A, University of Gothenburg (1991)

  • Abundance 360, leadership and entrepreneurship (2017)

  • Coach Power leadership training (2010, 2014, 2017)

  • Leadership Training from the Swedish Bar Association (2009)

LEADERSHIP AND RECOGNITION

  • ASIL Task Force on Climate Change and ISDS (2025 – present)

  • ICCA Paris Agreement Conciliation Annex Project. Co-chair (2022-present)

  • Campaign for Greener Arbitration Award (2022)

  • Equal Representation in Arbitration. Steering Committee Member (2016-present)

  • Stockholm Treaty Lab. Founder (2016-2019)

  • Who’s Who Legal. Global leader Arbitration (since 2016)

  • The Swedish Anti-Corruption Institute. Board Member (2011-2017)

  • Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law, Research Panel for Arbitration and other Forms of Dispute Resolution (2010 – 2017)

  • Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Award, shortlisted Rule of Law (2017)

PROJECTS AND POLICY INITIATIVES [in selection]

  • Investment Arbitration and Climate Change. Co-edited book (2024)

  • International investment and trade agreements. Knowledge Seminar and Policy Dialogue in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (2023)

  • Commercial Lawyers and Climate Change. Study and report (2023)

  • The Energy Charter Treaty, Climate Change and Clean Energy Transition. Report (2022).

  • Stockholm Treaty Lab. Crowdsourcing initiative on investment and trade law in support of the Paris Agreement (2016-2019)

  • Paris Peace Forum (2018). The Stockholm Treaty Lab was selected for the Forum. 

  • The Quiet Triumph. Documentary film on the interconnection between international trade, peace and economic development (2017)

  • Arbitrating for Peace. Co-edited book (2016)

  • Bridging the Climate Change Policy Gap: The Role of International Law and Arbitration. The conference was co-hosted by the SCC Arbitration Institute, the International Bar Association (IBA), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). (2016)

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