Bodil Elmqvist

CURRENT POSITION:Senior strategist and sustainability consultant at PE in Sweden

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Ph D Physical Geography, Lund University (2006)

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

2018-  PE (Projektengagemang)

2015-2018 COWI

2010-2014 Lund municipality and Lund University

2008-2009 Canadian NGO on sustainable buildings

2000-2007 Lund University

Bodil is a senior strategist and sustainability consultant at PE in Sweden. She has 20 years of experience in the field of sustainability from academia, NGOs, municipalities and as a consultant. One of her focus is on sustainable land use and food production in rural, peri-urban and urban areas, both nationally and internationally. Research and development are at the center of most of her projects, often in public and private partnerships. The last couple of years, Bodil has worked in numerous Climate-KIC projects on sustainable multifunctional land use and peri-urban development in the area of Gothenburg in Sweden. Previously she has, for example, worked on urban farming in Montreal, agroforestry in Sudan and water management in Spain.  She has a Ph D from Lund university Centre for Sustainability Studies.

Projektengagemang AB (PE)

PE is a consultant company with about 1100 employees in 35 locations in Sweden. PE is consultancy group within urban management, industry and energy, architecture, installations as well as building and construction. The company was founded in 2006.