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Niklas Schmidt has 20 years of international experience across the private sector, the UN system, and consultancy for public and private clients. Niklas has worked more than a decade in complex contexts including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Peru, Bolivia, and Mozambique.

His core areas of expertise include societal resilience and security, humanitarian operations and policy, circular economy, and strategic innovation. This is complemented by strong capabilities in capacity development and AI-based modeling.

He has held roles spanning investment analysis (Bonnier Russia), public diplomacy and humanitarian and development coordination (UNSDG), societal resilience and security research and practice development (RISE and NILU), capacity development and executive education (SIDA, Umeå University, Malmö University), and AI modeling and decision-support tools (Novospection, RISE, NILU).

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Charlotta Möller, Innovation and Business Development Director, has 30 years of work experience with a focus on business development and system integration, R&I, governance, policy, strategy, and transition management.

Charlotta has an R&I background: Director of Sustainable Communities at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, CEO at Urban Water Management and member of the program management for the strategic innovation program Viable Cities and Director of business architecture at Handelsbanken Liv.

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Johanna Berlin, Research Director, has 30 years of experience in environmental work with opportunities for improvement in a life cycle perspective for industry and society both through research and business assignments.

She has a PhD in environmental system analysis in the food sector and is most closely related to Volvo Cars, Technical Leader for Climate Action.

Johanna also has many years of experience in managing strategic research and her own research at RISE.