Join us as we celebrate International Women’s Day 2024 together with International Women’s in Business (IWIB). This will be a lunch program with the following speakers and more! Invitations will be sent to AmCham members.
On International Women’s Day, AmCham Sweden will bring together influential actors from politics and business to share their professional perspectives on female empowerment in a panel discussion. By hosting this program we intend to spread ideas and best practices.
The Empower Her initiative was launched by the U.S. Commercial Service in partnership with the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham EU Empower Her page) and AmChams in Europe to promote and empower women’s advancement in international trade. The initiative seeks to bolster direct engagement by businesses to take action to advance women’s economic empowerment in the workplace and women-led entrepreneurship across the Atlantic.
Topics will include enhancing women’s economic participation in international trade, fostering workplace diversity, promoting existing initiatives, and identifying obstacles to empowerment. Through this event, AmCham and IWIB aims to inspire collaborative solutions and foster a collective commitment to gender parity and women’s empowerment.
Speakers:
Sandra Stevstedt, CFO Partner Ecosystem - Europe, Middle East and Africa Karin Järperud, Country Sr Director/VD Amgen Sweden
Martin Andreasson, State Secretary to Minister for Gender Equality and Working Life, Paulina Brandberg
A representative from the U.S. Embassy Stockholm
Moderator: Annika Norrman Nordell, Partner, Grant Thornton
Sandra Stevstedt, CFO Partner Ecosystem - Europe, Middle East and Africa
Sandra has a passion for technology and the people that can realize and enable the application of technology to solve client challenges and transforming business models helping our clients create new business values. She acts as a change agent to the organization and its leaders to help them enable improved business outcome with a balanced approach to increase operational efficiency and finding new growth opportunities. Furthermore, Sandra believes it takes courage, integrity and a strong desire and curiosity to learn to continuous re-invent yourself, the organization and its people, to help the company develop and grow to realize its objectives and purpose.
Karin Järperud, Country Director/VD for Amgen AB
Karin is the Country Director/VD for Amgen in Sweden. Amgen is one of the world’s leading research based biotechnology companies. Amgen is a values-based company, deeply rooted in science and innovation to transform new ideas and discoveries into medicines for patients with serious illnesses. Their global head quarters are in California and Karin leads their Swedish affiliate and is also site lead for our Nordic and Baltic HUB in Stockholm. Her passions in life are her family, husband and three children between ages 3 and 11 years and out door sports. She is also passionate about bringing life changing medicines to patients together with the great team of fantastic people they have at Amgen.
Martin Andreasson, State Secretary to Minister for Gender Equality and Working Life, Paulina Brandberg
Moderator: Annika Norrman Nordell
Annika is the Business Leader of Consulting services and Partner at Grant Thornton. Over her 20 year career she accumulated a wealth of experience delivering advisory and management consulting services to some of the world’s largest organizations.