Olof Palme International Centre

Olof Palme International Centre
founded in the year	1992
City	Stockholm
Country	Sweden
Website	http://www.palmecenter.org/
address	Sveavägen 68, 111 34 Stockholm
Networks	Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), Think Tank, European Network of Political Foundations (ENOP)
Last revision	1.06.2015

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The Olof Palme Center organizes the international help for democracy and civil society development of the Swedish social democrats especially in countries of the tricontinent.

Organizational Structure and Funding

The Center is supported by 26 social democratic organizations and trade unions. These organizations decide the composition of the Center's board of currently eleven individuals.

The supporting organizations are:

• Association of the Labour Movement’s Colleges (Föreningen Arbetarrörelsens folkhögskolor)
• Graphics, Forestry and Woodworkers Union (GS-facket)
• Industrial and Metal Workers Union (IF Metall)]
• National Federation of Social Democratic Women in Sweden (S-kvinnor)
• Religious Social Democrats of Sweden (Tro och Solidaritet)
• Social Democratic Students of Sweden (S-studenter)
• Social Democratic Youth of Sweden (SSU)
• Swedish Building Maintenance Workers Union (Fastighetsanställdas förbund)
• Swedish Building Workers´ Union (Byggnads)
• Swedish Electricians Union (Elektrikerna)
• Swedish Food Workers Union (Livsmedelsarbetarförbundet)
• Swedish Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union (HRF)
• Swedish Municipal Workers’ Union (Kommunal)
• Swedish Musicians Union (Musikerförbundet)
• Swedish Painters Union (Målareförbundet)
• Swedish Paper Workers Union (Pappers)
• Swedish Social Democratic Party (Socialdemokraterna)
• Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO)
• Swedish Transport Workers Union (Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet)
• Swedish Union of Tenants (Hyresgästföreningen)
• Swedish Young Falcons (Unga Örnar)
• The National Federation of People´s Parks and Community Centres (Folkets Hus och Parker)
• The Union of Service and Communications Employees (SEKO)
• Union of Commercial Employees (Handelsanställdas förbund)
• Workers’ Educational Association (ABF)
• Workers’ Temperance Society (Verdandi)

Address

Sveavägen 68, 111 34 Stockholm

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Stefan Svensson

• Ulf Carmesund

• Kenneth G Forslund

• Nasra Ali

• Ingrid Rudin

• Monika Theodorsson

• Mattias Kristenson

• Fredrik Lundh Sammeli

• Leif Isaksson

• Niklas Skeppar

• Andrine Winther

• Loa Brynjulfsdottir

• Åsa Lindestam

• Mikael Nilsson

• Wanja Lundby-Wedin

• Pauli Kristiansson

• Per-Håkan Waern

• Sofia Eriksson

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

• Thoko Matshe

• Levend Bicaku, Local Coordinator, Kosovo, Macedonia (Operation Department)

• Carina Eriksson, Programme Manager (Operation Department)

• Åsa Svensson, Methods Advisor (Development Programs)

• Åsa Svensson

• Mikael Leyi, Deputy Head of Operations

• Christina Bergman

• Jens Orback

• Lisa Sandberg, Methods Advisor (Development Programs)

• Magdalena Agrell

• Inga Näslund, Regional Programme Manager, Western Balkans (Operation Department)

• Danilo Milic

• Viktoria Svensson Tordenborn

• Kajsa Rd, Programme Manager, South Africa, Angola, DR Kongo, Western Sahara (Operation Department)

• Viktoria Svensson Tordenborn, Programme Manager, Asia (Operation Department)

• Zarifeh Malki

• Jana Frolén

• Therese Persson

• Mikael Leyi, Deputy Head of Operations (Operation Department)

• Helin Sahin, Programme Manager, Egypt (Operation Department)

• Christina Bergman, Programme Manager, Western Balkan (Operation Department)

• Anna Sundström, Head of Operations

• Calle Sundstedt, Programme Manager, Namibia, Zimbabwe (Operation Department)

• Thair Ismail

• Auburn Daniels, Local Coordinator, South Africa (Operation Department)

• Thoko Matshe, Local Coordinator, Namibia, Zimbabwe (Operation Department)

• Jonas Andersson

• Frida Perjus, Programme Manager, Burma, Pakistan (Operation Department)

• Svjetlana Duric

• Magdalena Agrell, Head of Administration

• Carina Eriksson

• Jana Frolén, Programme Manager, Global (Operation Department)

• Herzegovina

• Calle Sundstedt

• Levend Bicaku

• Jonas Andersson, Programme Manager, Party-Oriented Democracy Support, Western Balkan, Moldova (Operation Department)

• Thair Ismail, Organisational Advisor (Development Programs)

• Therese Persson, Assistant to the Secretary General and Management

• Anna Sundström

• Zarifeh Malki, Local Coordinator, Palestine (Operation Department)

• Johanna Leander

• Inga Näslund

• Stina Oskarsson, Programme Manager, Global, Regional Latin America (Operation Department)

• Johanna Leander, Head of Development Programs (Development Programs)

• Plejada Gugashi

• Kajsa Rd

• Paula Rasmusson, Methods Advisor (Development Programs)

• Dina El-sofy, Programme Manager, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia (Operation Department)

• Plejada Gugashi, Local Coordinator, Albania (Operation Department)

• Isabel Lundin, Programme Manager, Party-Oriented Democracy Support, Mena (Operation Department)

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Supervisory board

People supervising the Think Tank (mainly in economic questions).

• Sture Eriksson

• Lars Gefvärt

• Lars-Erik Engberg

• Ella Niia

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

References

Nyberg, Maria (board member, Union of Commercial Employees (Handelsanställdas förbund))

Östberg, Anders (deputy board member, Swedish Young Falcons (Unga Örnar))

Nilsson, Magnus (Press Secretary & Head of communication)

Lönegå

Mesanovic Mandic, Emira (Local Coordinator, Bosnia &

Nilsson, Magnus (Press Secretary & Head of communication)

Lönegå

Mesanovic Mandic, Emira (Local Coordinator, Bosnia &

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