About Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson

Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson is a Swedish journalist, moderator and program host focusing on
sustainability. She is chair of the independent think tank Global Utmaning (Global Challenge) and
program host for We Don´t Have Time in collaboration with UNDP where she hosts online TV-broadcasts for audiences of up to 50 million people. She is also Content Director and moderator for A Sustainable Tomorrow and a TED-X speaker. Catarina has moderated for 15 years for The EU Commission, The Swedish government, international corporations and for NGO´s. Her expertise is on all aspects of sustainability, but primarily climate action. Catarina has worked as a journalist since 1991, based in New York, Stockholm, Singapore and Malmö, Sweden. She has published 12 books in the field of sustainability and she lectures in Sweden as well as internationally. Catarina is co- founder of the international NGO “Our Kids´Climate” with groups in 23 countries. Her academic background is in political science, cultural science and journalism.

Agenda

Moderator for SIR Sessions

Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson will be moderating sessions on the Mainstage that are broadcast directly from Sveriges Innovationsrikdag including The Swedish National Incubator programme and The people making it happen on Day 1, The Swedish food system – how can we become more resilient and sustainable?, Climate contracts on EU, national and local level and The transformation of an industrial sector, and Lund Innovation District and the benefit of MAXIV & ESS and Switch to Sweden on Day 3.