Biography
Katarina Wahlberg (Advisor on Social and Economic Policy Program Coordinator) worked on the GPF staff from 2002 to 2008 and remains involved as an advisor. She earned her M.A. degree in political science from the University of Stockholm in 2002, where she specialized in international relations. She has a B.A. degree in political science also from the University of Stockholm, with specialization in Latin American studies, economics and social anthropology. As part of her B.A. she was granted an Erasmus scholarship to study at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid for one year. In 1997, together with some fellow students she set up an Amnesty International chapter at Stockholm University where she was actively involved for several years.
She is fluent in Swedish, English and Spanish, and has since her start at GPF been primarily working on social and economic policy, UN finance, UN reform and fundraising. She had a key role in organizing international conferences on Global Taxes for Global Priorities, Global Compact Counter Summit, The Challenges of UN Finance, Global Climate Crisis and The Right to Food: How Can the UN Respond to the Global Food Crisis?.
She has published papers on Global Taxes for Global Priorities, CAFTA from a Nicaraguan Perspective, Progress on Global Taxes?, Food Aid for the Hungry?, Are We Approaching a Global Food Crisis?, A New Era of World Hunger? – The Global Food Crisis Analyzed and Causes and Strategies on World Hunger: Green Revolution versus Sustainable Agriculture, and she has given many interviews to broadcast and printed media on the global food crisis.
