Oscar Stenström is Director and Senior Advisor at the Wallenberg Office. He has served as State

Secretary to the Prime Minister responsible for the Swedish NATO application. State Secretary

in Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation and Foreign Affairs with responsibilities for trade,

export, competitiveness, and innovation (2014-2018). He is a former Ambassador at the

Swedish Government Offices and has served as the Swedish ambassador to Chile (2018-2022).

He is Senior Advisor to Mr. Jacob Wallenberg, Chair of Investor AB, Mr. Marcus Wallenberg,

Chair of SEB, Saab AB, and FAM, and to Mr. Peter Wallenberg Jr., Chair of Wallenberg

Foundations AB. Oscar also serves as Senior Advisor to several companies within the

Wallenberg sphere.

Oscar is a master graduate of KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Master of Science in

Engineering and has studied applied physics at Chalmers University of Technology.

Oscar lives in Stockholm, is married and has two daughters.

Emma Stenström is Associate Professor at Stockholm School of Economics and Director of the Research Center for Arts, Culture and Business. Her book Bubbelhoppa (2023) introduces "bubble-hopping"—a method for bridging differences by moving fluidly between diverse perspectives and breaking down silos.

Emma also writes columns for the daily business paper, Dagens Industri, teaches sustainability and leadership, and has won multiple teaching awards. She applies bubble-hopping in her work bridging business and culture, currently working with both contemporary circus and green steel.

Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Her work focuses on defense against gray-zone and hybrid threats as well as the intersection of geopolitics and the globalized economy. She leads the Transatlantic Security Initiative’s “Threats to the global maritime order” project. Braw is also a columnist with Foreign Policy and Politico Europe.

Braw is a member of the advisory boards of M&C Saatchi World Services and GALLOS Technologies. She is also an adviser to Willis Towers Watson’s research arm, a member of the United Kingdom’s National Preparedness Commission, and a member of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy’s advisory council.

Braw has published numerous books, including the award-winning Goodbye, Globalization: The Return of a Divided World (2024), The Defender’s Dilemma: Identifying and Deterring Gray-Zone Aggression (2022), and God’s Spies (2019). She is also the author of the upcoming book The Undersea War.

Braw was previously a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to joining academia, she worked in the private sector following a career as a journalist.

Nik Gowing was the main news presenter for BBC World News (1996-2014), and he has 35 years of analytical experience in diplomacy, defence and international security. In 2018 Nik Gowing, along with Chris Langdon, released the book Thinking the Unthinkable: A new imperative for leadership in the digital age.

Hélène Barnekow has 30 years of experience from the tech industry. Currently a partner of Gaia Leadership and part of the board of Directors of GN Store Nord A/S , Handelsbanken AB and the chair of Mindler AB and Storytel AB. She is also the Vice Chair of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the UK. Hélène has been the CEO of Microsoft Sweden, between 2018 and 2022 and prior to that she was the CEO of Telia Sweden. Before moving to Stockholm she was based in Boston USA and held the position as SVP Global Field & Partner Marketing at EMC. She has also been assigned several leadership roles at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. During her career she has been awarded several awards and recognitions for her excellent leadership and her impact across companies and society. In August 2019, Hélène launched her first book, Re:start, about values-based leadership in a ever changing world.” In November 2023, the book had its international launch as the book became available in English under the name “Power with Meaning”.