Anna Wieslander

Anna Wieslander is the Director for Northern Europe at the Atlantic Council and concurrently serves as Secretary General of the Swedish Defence Association, a non-political NGO which for nearly 130 years has promoted knowledge on defence and security among the Swedish public. She also chairs the Institute for Security and Development Policy, a Stockholm-based think-tank with a focus on Central and South-East Asia. An experienced commentator and writer, her expertise lies in security and defence policy, NATO, the transatlantic link, and defence industry issues, and she has frequently been invited to speak on these issues by media outlets such as BBC, Reuters, Politico and the Atlantic. Prior to her current positions, she was deputy director at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, a Swedish think-tank focused on foreign policy, and before that served as head of Speaker’s Office at the Swedish Parliament. She holds a BA in journalism from Gothenburg University (1990), and an MA in political science from Lund University (1995), where she is currently pursuing a PhD in international relations. In 2019 she was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences as well as the Swedish Society for International Affairs.