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Stockholm School of Economics
Sveavägen 65
Stockholm, Stockholms län, 113 50
Sweden

Dennis Kiener

Student at SSE

Dennis Kiener is one of the most positive people out there. During his bachelor’s at LMU Munich, Dennis did an exchange in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, which is the land of smiles. To convey his positivity he uses a structured approach that he learned during his time at McKinsey, Oliver Wyman, and as part of a political youth organization.

Dragomir Mrsic

Actor

The actor Dragomir "Gago" Mrsic is best known for his participation in films such as Snabba Cash, Edge of Tomorrow and the TV series Alex, but has also appeared in programs such as Stjärnorna på Slottet and Julkalendern. Dragomir has a life journey like few others where he has experienced poverty, crime, abuse and death up close, but also life with celebrities and actors on the red carpet, and has been an athlete and coach at the national team level. In the late nineties, he served a prison sentence for a robbery, a past he has long since put behind him and has spent a lot of time making amends for. Dragomir's unique history has made him a person who has come face to face with everything from royalty to assassins, causing him to develop an ability to talk to everyone. Behind his unparalleled life journey lies an ability to constantly see opportunities even when things look the darkest, to constantly develop as a person.

Jana Tumova

Associate Professor

Jana Tumova is an associate professor at the division of Robotics, Perception and Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Her research group focuses on making robots move autonomously, safely and purposefully in various contexts ranging from autonomous driving to exploration with drones to robot navigation around people. Jana received her PhD in 2013 from Masaryk University in Czech Republic, she was a visiting researcher at Boston University, MIT, and Singapore-MIT Alliance for research and technology, and a postdoctoral researcher at KTH. She is a recipient of the Early Career Award from Robotics Science and Systems Foundation (2021) and the Swedish Research Council Starting Grant (2017). Her research has been also supported by EU, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, Vinnova, and Digital Futures.

Lovisa Bergdahl

Student at SSE

Lovisa is an undergraduate student at SSE, currently working on her thesis and expecting to graduate this spring. During her time here, she has engaged with a variety of projects and committees, the most prominent SASSE role being that of President of the Education Committee. Other memorable endeavors are working on SSE's CIVICA Management Team, as well as receiving the Gun and Einar Larsson Scholarship to create and execute an entrepreneurship training program in Ghana—all of which, together with studying abroad before enrolling at SSE and a love for traveling, have mounted to form her interest in culture, psychology, and the combination therebetween. As such, she intends and would love to pursue an academic career within the field of social psychology, starting with the scrutiny of the trademark Scandinavian social construct: the Law of Jante.

Omar Alshogre

Omar Alshogre came to Sweden during the Syria-crisis. Today he works with freeing political prisoners in Syria, and with creating awareness with his unique perspective, apart from his job at BCG. Omar has held lectures at several prominent universities and was recently interviewed at CNN, where he sheds light on the violation of human rights and that we must engage more to help the citizens of Syria.

Pernilla Baralt

Executive Director of UNICEF Sweden

Pernilla Baralt is the Executive Director of UNICEF Sweden since 2019. Pernilla has a broad experience of working with child rights issues both nationally and internationally. As Secretary of State to the Minister of Children, the Elderly and Equal Opportunities (2014-2018), Pernilla was, among other things, responsible for the bill to make the Convention on the Rights of the Child into Swedish law, Sweden's contribution to the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, and for the establishment of a national children's rights delegation. Pernilla has also held leading positions within the EU Commission in Brussels and Stockholm, and has been Secretary-General of the think tank Global Challenge.