Annika Dalén

Gender Equality Officer, City of Umeå

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 local level. Between 2019-2022 she co-coordinated the URBACT Gendered landscape action planning network, focusing on developing locally contextualized tools and approaches to work towards gender equality in urban policies, planning, and services. She has worked in 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.