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Mikael Karlsson Dr. Mikael Karlsson is agronomist and holds a PhD in Environmental and Energy Systems from Karlstad University (2005). His research focuses on environmental risk governance. He has written scientific articles on risk management, science-policy interactions, chemicals law, marine policy, energy issues and biotechnology, and he has published hundreds of popular text on environmental issues. He is teaching environmental sciences (senior lecturer) at Karlstad University since 1995 and is member of the Advisory Board at King’s College Centre for Risk Management, London.

Dr Karlsson has been involved in a number of research projects at Södertörn University: • Regulation of Chemicals in the Baltic Sea Area: Science, Politics and the Media (2006-2008) • Chemicals in Textiles: Managing Health and Environmental Risks of Products with Complex Product Chains (2008-2012, including co-supervising a PhD student) • Environmental Risk Governance of the Baltic Sea, RISKGOV (2009-2011) • Cooperating for Sustainable Regional Marine Governance: the Case of Fisheries and Nutrient Runoff from Agriculture to the Baltic Sea (2013-2015).

Dr. Karlsson has been a member of the EU Commission’s High Level European Resource Efficiency Platform, as well as member of two other European Commission High Level Groups (on Competitiveness, Energy and the Environment and on Competitiveness of the European Chemicals Industry). He has served as an expert in the Environment and Climate Advisory Group at the European Commission’s Research Directorate. Dr. Karlsson has been a delegate to several EU, WTO and UN ministerial and informal ministerial meetings.

Dr. Mikael Karlsson is since 2005 elected President of the European Environmental Bureau and since 2002 elected President (where he since then has a full time position) of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, the largest environmental organisations in Europe and Sweden respectively. He has served in the board of several other environmental organisations, including as chair for the International Chemicals Secretariat and SwedWatch.

Dr. Karlsson is an Independent Specialist in the Swedish Government’s Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Quality Objectives, a member of the Board of the Swedish Chemicals Agency, and a member of the steering committee on the Swedish Species Information Centre. Previously he was an expert in the Swedish Environmental Objectives Council. He has been expert in Governmental Committees on the Swedish environmental code, chemicals policy, the environmental objectives system, and wolf management.

Mikael Karlsson has worked with international development co-operation in both academia and the civil society, and has for several years given courses and conducted studies on rural development, sustainable development and natural resources conflict resolution in e.g. East Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda), South East Asia (Malaysia, Vietnam) and Eastern Europe (Estonia, Poland). He has been a guest lecturer at numerous universities.