Previous employees
Ahn-Za Hagström has written a case study on the 1998 Gothenburg Dancehall Fire together with prof. Bengt Sundelius, Krishantering på göteborgska, 2001. She has written a case study on the 1999 Policemurders in Malexander and together with Dan Hansén, Ahn-Za has written a study on the Gothenburg riots that took place during the EU-summit 2001.
Sara Larsson has written case studies about "the fourteen’s" sanctions against Austria 2000, and the tunnel-disaster in the Austrian skiing district Kaprun in November 2000.
Jesper Grönvall was a member of the original CRISMART staff, and is author of the CRISMART volume Managing Crisis in the European Union: The Commission and “Mad Cow” Disease.
Anna Hedin Ekström shared responsibility for CRISMART’s education and training activities, and was involved in preparing and leading crisis management exercises. She is also author of Teleavbrottet i Uppsala 2002.
Markus Förberg was responsible for CRISMART's education and training activities, and was involved in preparing and leading various crisis management exercises. Markus also had overall responsibility for CRISMART’s Bulgarian and Ukrainian analyst groups, and is co-editor of the CRISMART volume Managing Political Crisis in Bulgaria: Pragmatism and Procrastination.
Stefan Juléus was a member and project leader of CRISMARTs training team, and helped coordinate training activities.
Susanne Kallin worked with analyst assignments and CRISMART’s training activities, primarily providing expertise on crisis management on the regional and local level.
Britta Ramberg co-authored Crisis Decision Making in the European Union as part of her research on crisis management capacity in the EU. She also coordinated CRISMART's Romanian project, and conducted research on the Asian tsunami and earthquakes in Turkey. Britta was also involved in CRISMART training activities.
Dr. Stephanie Buus is co-editor of the CRISMART volume 18 (2005) Value Complexity in Crisis Management: The Lithuanian Transition togehter with Eric K. Stern and Lindy M. Newlove. She has previously published on the links between nationalism, aesthetics, and travel. Dr. Buus received her Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
Lina Svedin is an instructor at the University of Utah, Political Science Department. At CRISMART, Lina managed the educational and training branch of CRISMART. Within CRISMART she has examined the 1994-1997 armed conflict between outlaw motorcycle gangs in Scandinavia, the 1997 Red River flood and the 1998 Auckland power outage in New Zealand, Auckland Unplugged, 2000. In collaboration with Kerstin Castenfors (from the Swedish Defence Research Agency), Lina has presented a report on Sweden’s crisis management structure and capacity to meet serious peacetime challenges. Svedin and Castenfors have also contributed to the Swedish Government's Special Commission on Vulnerability and Security, by undertaking a study of four European countries (one being Sweden). Svedin and Castenfors examined the crisis management structure for each of the four countries and then analyzed how well these structures actually operated during flood emergencies.
In 1999, Lina also served as an expert for various ministries and agencies in preparation for the Y2K problem. Lina has also had responsibility for the research center’s Russian branch and is co-author of Crisis Management in Russia: Overcoming institutional Rigidity and Resource Constraints, 2002. Lina is also editor of the volume Small-State Crisis Management: The Icelandic Way (2004) together with Asthildur Elva Bernharðsdóttir.
Nina Matzén was in 2006-2007 involved in CRISMART’s analytical, education and training activities. Her main focus was on health security and related crisis management at a national and European level.
Carl Hedin was CRISMART’s training director. He has a Master of Education and a Master of Ethics from the Stockholm Institute of Education. Carl is a Major in the Swedish armed forces reserve, and has served in the Balkans and in Afghanistan. Carl has worked with the Swedish Army in a variety of roles, mainly related to international missions, including the training of Sweden’s international forces. Before joining CRISMART, Carl worked at the Swedish armed forces Headquarters, where he developed a model for systematic risk management.
In the role as training director Carl was responsible for the development, execution and evaluation of an array of training activities, as well as for contacts with external partners concerning training issues.
