Our Board

Gunilla Hallonsten holds a Ph D in Theology and a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from University of Lund in Sweden. 

Gunilla has previously been Acting Executive Director, Acting International Director, Policy Director, Policy Advisor on HIV, Gender and Theology within Church of Sweden. She has also been a Senior Advisor on Gender Justice at ACT Alliance, based in South Africa, and earlier on Coordinator on HIV and Gender Equality in Southern Africa for Church of Sweden, based in Eswatini.  

Gunilla has a longstanding commitment to Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) especially working on global policy and advocacy related to SRHR, HIV and gender equality, and she has also been a board member of the Swedish RFSU.  

Her knowledge on the areas gender, SRHR and theology was deepened through working for many years in Southern Africa with FBOs and CSOs on HIV and gender equality. She gained experience within humanitarian work through the humanitarian specialization on Community-based psycho-social support, as well as from being Senior Advisor on Gender at ACT Alliance in relation to their advocacy and policy work. 

Gunilla is currently the Dean of Malmö where she among other things works with interreligious work for social cohesion and peace. She is also a member of the World Council of Churches Commission of Churches for International Affairs.  

Amelie von Zweigbergk is a former politician for the Swedish Liberal Party. Before she started her own consultancy, Zweig Solutions, she was responsible for adult education at the Swedish employers’ organisation Teknikföretagen. Earlier, she was the Nordic representative on the UNESCO Executive Board. She is also chair of Learning for Active Citizenship and board member of the European Association for the Education of Adults.

Amelie was press secretary at the Ministry of Social Affairs from 1991-1994. From 1998-2001 and then again from 2003-2006, she was a project leader at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.

In 2006, Amelie joined the Ministry of Education, where she became State Secretary in 2007. In 2010, she became State Secretary in the government coordination office (Statsrådsberedningen) and then again at the Ministry of Education, with responsibility for the Swedish student support scheme, adult education as well as youth, integration and equality. She held this post until 2012.

Juliane Kronen was born in 1963 in Neuss, Germany. She studied business administration at the University of Cologne (Dipl.-Kfm.), was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Missouri in Columbia (B.S.), and completed her doctoral degree at the University of Cologne in 1994.

Juliane built a career in strategy consulting, working with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) on worldwide assignments from 1994 to 2010, from 2002 on as a partner and managing director. She specialized in aligning business and information technology strategy. She has been the global sector head for information technology in the telecommunications industry and served as the European head of BCG’s global Women Initiative from 2004 to 2007, which aimed to sustainably increase the share of female consultants by improving recruiting and retention measures. She has frequently published articles and papers on her research and professional work.

Together with her sister, Juliane owns and runs a small family business – now in the third generation – and dedicates a considerable part of her capacity to developing various charitable organisations by providing her skills and experience. She has served as an advisor on strategic and organisational issues to the board of the Right Livelihood Foundation from 2007 until 2010, when she was appointed as a Trustee.

Paul Walker was born 1946 in the United States. After completing his Bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages, he served in the U.S. Army as a Russian Intelligence Specialist. Following his discharge in 1971, he returned to university, completing an MA degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (Washington DC), and a PhD in Political Science in 1978 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Paul has worked as a professional staff member for the Committee on Armed Services in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he organised the first US on-site inspection of a Russian chemical weapons stockpile in 1994. He has published several books, such as The Price of Defense and The Nuclear Almanac, and collaborated with a multitude of international organisations working on arms control and justice. He is known for his skills in bringing together and engaging various stakeholders from around the world. Since the mid-1990s, Paul has been leading the Environmental Security and Sustainability Program at Green Cross International.

In 2013, Paul received the Right Livelihood Award “for working tirelessly to rid the world of chemical weapons.”

Reinhard Loske brings decades of experience as a scholar, researcher and author on climate policy and social transformation. Previously, he has served as a member of the German Bundestag, including as environmental policy spokesman for the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen party. Between 2007 and 2011, he was Senator for the Environment, Construction, Transport and Europe in the city of Bremen.

Among other positions, Reinhard is a Senior Associate Fellow of the German Foreign Policy Council (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik) and a member of ECOROPA, the European Network for Ecological Reflection and Action.

Joshua Castellino serves as the Co-Executive Director of Minority Rights Group, bringing a wealth of legal knowledge about minority rights, access to justice and the interplay between security, development and human rights. Previously, he was the Dean of the School of Law at Middlesex University, which he founded in 2012.

Ole von Uexkull holds Master’s degrees in Environmental Science (Lund University) and European Studies (Freie Universität, Humboldt Universität, and Technische Universität Berlin). After his studies, he won a fellowship for the Postgraduate Programme in International Affairs of the Robert Bosch Foundation, the German National Academic Foundation, and the German Foreign Office.

Ole has worked at the German Parliament in Berlin, the United Nations Environment Programme in Paris, and the European Parliament in Brussels. He is the nephew of the Right Livelihood founder Jakob von Uexkull.