About Annika Dalén

Annika Dalén is a gender equality and strategic development officer at the city of Umeå, Sweden, with a special focus on gender in relation to social sustainability, urban planning, mobility, and climate change on the local level. For the past three years, she co-coordinated the URBACT Gendered landscape action planning network, focusing on developing locally contextualised tools and approaches to work towards gender equality in urban policies, planning, and services. She has worked on several projects and initiatives on gender equality and sustainable urban development and has more than 15 years of experience working with gender equality and human rights issues from both Sweden and Latin America.