Karin Svensson

Karin Svensson is senior advisor on financing for sustainable development at Sida, and Sida’s project lead for Global Investors for Sustainable Development, GISD. In 2016 she initiated, together with Sweden’s largest institutional investors, Swedish Investors for Sustainable Development, SISD, that inspired the UN to form GISD. Karin also coordinates Sida’s internal committee on Financing for Development.

Karin started her career at Swedish Export Credit Corporate, at the finance department and, after studying journalism, continued on to Sweden’s Business Daily, Dagens industri newspaper, where she became a senior reporter covering international financial markets, the mutual fund business in Sweden and globally and sustainability and over the years became acting News Director, responsible for the news section in the paper.

In 2013 she took the initiative to form Dagens Industri’s first conference on Sustainability and the year after the first conference on Doing business in Africa. Karin holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a double major in accounting and marketing from Uppsala University, Sweden. She has a degree in journalism for graduates, and has added to this, individual courses in strategic communication at Uppsala University, Karlstad’s University, Linnaeus University respectively, with CSR-studies at Luleå Technical University and studies of International Relations at Stockholm University.