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Katarina Wahlberg (Social and Economic Policy Program Coordinator) has worked on the GPF staff since 2002. 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 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
and she has published papers on Global Taxes for Global Priorities, CAFTA from a Nicaraguan Perspective, Progress on Global Taxes? and Food Aid for the Hungry?.
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