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Catharina Bratt, 29 years old, Stockholm
Catharina is an action-oriented and optimistic person. She has a strong drive to turn ideas into reality, especially when she is passionate about something. She has always been passionate about the environment. Catharina studied economics and international business at the Stockholm School of Economics. Since 2005 she has worked as a management consultant at Accenture in Stockholm with a variety of industries, clients and business. At Accenture she is introducing changes to make the company more environmentally friendly whilst reducing costs. She is also developing Accenture’s sustainability practice by seeking opportunities to help clients integrate sustainability into their business. |
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Peter Carstedt, 31 years old, Göteborg.
Peter’s entrepreneurial grandfather taught him that “anything is possible” and that “if someone can, so can you”. In addition to receiving a Masters in Business Science and Administration from Uppsala University in 2002, Peter has had several interesting experiences including working for President Clinton’s HIV/AIDS Initiative in Haiti and working as a senior consultant for a corporate education firm in Shanghai. He strongly believes in the need to develop new ways of thinking to reduce our carbon footprint and to overcome the widespread lack of knowledge about what is happening to our planet today. |
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Jenny Cerruto, 21 years old, Uppsala
Jenny is currently studying to become a civil engineer in the field of energy production at Uppsala University. Prior to her studies she worked in Nicaragua for a year starting up an environmental organization in collaboration with Greenpeace to save endangered species of whales. She hopes she can bring positive and encouraging attitudes to the group that will generate a creative and productive working atmosphere. Jenny is convinced that the solution to the problem of climate change is to work across country borders and exchange ideas and knowledge. In this way, we can create new solutions that will hopefully be better than the ones that already exist. |
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Mark Duncan, 35 years old, Saltsjö-Boo
Mark is a project and systems manager at the Swedish Export Credit Corporation (SEK), where he is also the Chairman of SEK’s Environmental Group. He is working hard to generate a grassroots movement for environmental sustainability within the corporation. He is also an active member of Stockholm Naturskyddsförening where he has actively campaigned for, amongst other things, the congestion charges in Stockholm. Mark is a devoted father and husband, and enjoys inspiring others to take an active stance in addressing the climate crisis. |
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Paul Fenton, 27 yeard old, Göteborg
Paul has significant experience in the realms of sustainable development, communication and politics. Most recently, he has worked as a researcher for the Clinton Climate Initiative in Gothenburg. He has also worked for ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability in Germany and as a consultant on a review of EU Water and Energy projects. Paul believes we should all take responsibility for our collective actions in the hope that we may achieve a better world. |
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Anna Havula, 29 years old, Stockholm
As a result of her experience working as a volunteer at a wildlife rescue centre in Costa Rica, Anna decided to study environmental politics and became active in various environmental organisations. Since then she has worked in the Swedish Parliament as a political secretary and with different NGOs. One of the highlights in her life has been when she gave a speech about the importance of environmental education at the UN Commission for Sustainable Development 12. Anna is passionate about the issue and willing to work hard together with others to find constructive solutions to climate change. |
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Sven Heijbel, 20 years old, Lund
Sven is described by friends as a positive, motivating and happy person who loves social contacts. Working in groups with a common goal is the type of environment where he performs best and he thinks he can contribute a lot to the objectives of the Challenge Europe initiative. In terms of group dynamics, he considers himself as somewhat of an idea producer, delivering alternatives and seeing possibilities. At the moment Sven is studying interdisciplinary Human Ecology at the University of Lund. This summer he will be going to Svalbard for ten days. He is one out of two young Swedes, selected by WWF to participate in the project ‘Voyage for the Future’ during which he will experience the retreating ice first hand and get a feeling of what is being lost. |
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Kristina Holmblad, 26 years old, Enköping
Kristina, described by friends as outgoing, positive, funny and a little crazy, holds an MA in Human Ecology and currently works as an information officer at the environment office of the Municipality of Enköping. She believes you cannot extract anything from the web of ‘interconnectedness’ as everything – the environment, human behaviour, history, the economy, technology – is connected. She would like her generation to be remembered for changing the world, to prove wrong to those who do not believe this is possible. |
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Jorgen Husbond, 35 years old, Göteborg
Jorgen is a consultant for JMJ Associates Ltd. who works with clients to create sustainable change in people’s relationship to safety in order to eliminate worker injury. He believes that the climate crisis is a creative challenge that generates exciting possibilities for corporations and the general public. Jorgen would like his generation to be remembered for managing to turn the climate crisis around by changing attitudes and getting corporations, governments and general public to co-operate. |
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Oleg Izyumenko, 29 years old, Lund
In the past Oleg worked for Greenpeace and WWF in Russia and now he studies at the International Master's Programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science at Lund University. He is an active member of the student environmental organisation Sustainable University and a spokesperson of Green Students Lund, local student organisation of the Green Party of Sweden. Oleg is employed part-time at the Traffic and Environment Unit of the City of Lund where he is helping to design a university course in Sustainable Transportation and Mobility Management. At his student union Smålands Nation he took the initiative to make students' Sunday café "climate-friendly". Oleg's highest priority is to help human civilisation achieve harmony with nature, without giving up technology. |
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Anna Joelsson, 32 years old, Östersund
Anna is a researcher in Ecotechnology and Environmental Science at the Mid Sweden University. She hopes that she will be able to contribute with all the knowledge and experience she has developed from her work to the project. Her friends describe her as organized, with a great sense for remembering details, a person with a good sense of humour and who succeeds in everything she does – even though she doesn’t always believe that herself. Anna loves the invention of the bicycle, which she describes as so simple, so elegant and yet so efficient and useful. |
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Sara Sjödal, 28 years old, Tierp
Sara is an agronomist and possesses sound knowledge of agriculture and its capacity to reduce the accelerating greenhouse effect. She grew up on an ecological/organic milk farm in Småland in the south of Sweden and believes strongly in reducing ‘destructive consumption’ without reducing our quality of life. Sara currently works as an adviser to farmers on chemical pesticides. |
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Beatrice Teurneau, 31 years old, Göteborg
Beatrice works for SWECO, northern Europe’s largest consulting company, as a Unit Manager in a group of consultants concerned with air pollution control. She hopes to bring zest and energy to the group, even when faced with setbacks, since her driving force in life is technical, societal and environmental development. Beatrice believes we need change - now. A big inspiration for her in that aim is someone who brought a lot of change - Nelson Mandela. |
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Martin Wetterstedt, 32 years old, Uppsala
Martin describes himself as ‘eco-centric’ – fascinated by and interested in nature, which he believes has both an intrinsic and instrumental value. In 2003 he started a PhD at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and he also worked part time at the Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development. He believes the most regrettable thing that is happening today is the continuing altering and destruction of life supporting systems on earth. |
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Hanna Wolf, 28 years old, Stockholm
Every morning Hanna cycles to work at the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation. Prior to working there, she worked for the Swedish Ministry of Environment. Her aim is to bring inspiration and motivation to the group and she considers herself to be an idealist, but with one leg planted firmly in reality. Hanna has a Masters in Environmental Science and a Masters in Political Science from the School of Business, Economics and Law at Gothenburg University. |
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Kaj Wågdahl, 35 years old, Husby-Rekarne
Kaj has significant experience and knowledge of energy and climate change issues. He holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering where he specialised in energy and the environment and worked for the Mälardalen Energy Agency from 2000 to 2006. He started his own business, the Climate Protection Agency Sweden in 2007. Kaj believes interdisciplinary work is crucial to finding solutions to the climate crisis and looks forward to working creatively with others towards the same goal. |
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