I serve as Vice President, Policy – Europe & UK at the General Catalyst Institute. In practice, this means that I help founders scale transformative companies and advise governments on how to build innovation ecosystems that drive long-term prosperity and security.

An engineer turned social scientist, I have spent my career exploring how technology shapes societies and how innovation can be directed toward public value. That journey has taken me from Sweden through Germany, Austria, the US, the UK and India – including Delhi, where I met my wife.

Before joining GC, I was Director of Science & Technology Policy at the Tony Blair Institute. Working closely with the former UK prime minister, I built and led a team advising political leaders in more than 40 countries on AI adoption, research funding and digital sovereignty.

Earlier, I worked at McKinsey & Co in London, driving digital transformation in Fortune 500 companies, and at the Swedish Trade & Invest Council in New Delhi, building partnerships between government and industry in India. I also served in the Swedish Armed Forces, leading a platoon and sleeping long stretches in the Arctic forest – at times under northern lights.

I hold a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where my research focused on AI governance. While in academia, I developed the world's first end-to-end framework for auditing large language models – which has since been piloted and adopted by major AI labs. I have been a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University and remain affiliated with Yale's Digital Ethics Center.

Outside of work, I read history and philosophy, play racket sports and design houses. The Swedish summer cottage I built with my family remains my favourite place on earth.