IEF 2007

Biography
Dr. Sylvia Karlsson is a Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland based at the Finland Futures Research Centre, Turku School of Economics, Finland, studying international governance of energy and climate change. She has an M.Sc. in Biology/Ecotoxicology from Uppsala University and a Ph.D. in political science from Linköping University, Sweden, where her research focused on multi-level environmental governance. She held a position as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy in 2003/04, analysing the negotiation process of the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Between 2001 and 2003, Dr. Karlsson worked as International Science Project Coordinator at the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) in Bonn, Germany. She has worked shorter periods for UNEP Chemicals and the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank. In parallel to her studies and research, she has been actively engaged in the NGO processes of the Rio Conference and the World Summit for Social Development. At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg she headed the delegation of the International Environment Forum for which she serves as Secretary General since its foundation in 1997. She is an Associate Member of the Club of Rome and a Trustee of One World Trust.

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