About
I’m a law graduate working in Compliance & Investigations.
My passion and focus is to explore and inform. Whether it is societal issues or legal questions, my aim is to learn in a way that enables me to effectively convey knowledge and insights to others. Coupled with my drive to take initiative and remain open-minded, explains the opportunities I have pursued in various non-partisan organisations.
My journey through civil society began as a debate moderator. Wanting to make informed decisions in upcoming elections, I found it imperative to understand key issues in society by challenging our collective understanding. That is why I organised and moderated a number of political debates in 2018–2019.
Since then, I have sporadically accepted invitations to moderate student-organised debates between members of the Swedish Parliament: before general elections, but also topic-specific debates such as the energy crisis and gender-based violence. All in all, I strive to be as diligent and well-versed with the topics of debate as possible in order to hold elected officials accountable.
This goes hand in hand with my overarching mission within civil society, which is to bring groups and individuals of opposing views closer together. This is in order to facilitate mutual understanding, build rapport and, by extension, minimise polarisation; a never-ending journey of influencing others to see past differences in search of common ground.
In March 2020, I served as a project manager for a five-day, Erasmus+ funded conference, planned to take place in Gothenburg and gather more than 180 individuals from 16 countries.
In European Youth Parliament (EYP) sessions, delegates of the conference are divided into committees, each tasked with addressing a societal challenge. Committee members research, evaluate various stakeholder interests, and collaborate to develop action plans.
Ultimately, these resolutions are debated by all committees in a general assembly. The topics covered in the conference I organised ranged from big tech and gender-based violence to cancer detection and freedom of the press, among others.
The conference was set to take place in some of Gothenburg’s most noteworthy and historic sites, including The Bourse, Kronhuset, The Torstenson Palace, and Stora Teatern. The conference had also the pleasure of anticipating the presence of a number of prestigious guests, including Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria, the then County Governor Anders Danielsson, the city mayor, and former EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström.
The project was cancelled just one week prior to its scheduled start, due to the rapidly escalating pandemic.
In mid-2021, I was appointed as the Chair of the Working Group on Data Protection by the Board of National Committees of the European Youth Parliament. This revived group was granted a broad mandate to provide tailored, network-wide guidance and proposals on the GDPR. Together with a group of privacy-conscious members from across Europe, we did just that.
Given that EYP is a largely decentralised organisation with operations throughout Europe, such tasks are challenging for a single national organisation to undertake alone. That is why we joined forces to create templates for privacy notices and consent forms, as well as working papers and guidance on third country transfers, data subject’s rights, and other relevant topics.
The project took several months to complete but proved to be the most ambitious output of a working group to date.
The day following the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I had the opportunity to actively engage in the Defence and Security Academy (FOSA). Across six immersive days in spring 2022, we delved into the intricacies of pressing issues surrounding national and international security.
FOSA is organised by Folk och Försvar, in collaboration with the Swedish Armed Forces, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), and Swedish Defence University.
Drawing on the goodwill generated by my experience in the civil society, I was chosen as a lay judge at the Court of Appeal for Western Sweden (2021–2023). Unlike the typical lay judge, I distinguished myself as the youngest one, at least on an appellate level, with no membership in a political party; a combination that is virtually unheard of.
That is why I wrote an attention-grabbing Op-Ed in Sweden’s largest newspaper in March 2023, linked above, about this lack of representation contrary to the legislature’s intention. However, it remains to be seen whether the government will address this issue by proposing effective measures, after decades of inaction.
Since February 2024, I have been working as an Associate in Compliance & Investigations at a leading business law firm in Sweden.