Karen O’Brien has been appointed Zennström Visiting Professor in Climate Change Leadership 2026.
Karen O’Brien is co-founder of cCHANGE and Professor Emerita of human geography at University of Oslo. Building on decades of research on the social and human dimensions of environmental change, her current work focuses on connecting theory with practice to scale equitable and sustainable transformations.
Karen will be working at Uppsala University from March 1st 2026 until the end of February 2027 and is located at Geocentrum within the unit of Climate Change Leadership.
