Per has 20 years of experience in policy making and multilateral partnerships, having worked as a civil servant in Sweden, the UN and the EU on issues including sustainability and innovation, industry policies, as well as climate and environmental affairs.

Within LeadIT, Per heads the Secretariat, coordinating its work to ensure LeadIT is reaching the objectives set and agreed upon by its Board and its Members. Per also initiates and develops partnerships and oversees LeadIT’s strategic direction.

Robert leads the partnerships work at the LeadIT Secretariat. Over the last ten years, he has lead communications and engagement capacity building efforts and developed effective science-policy communication methods that are focused on results and the needs of stakeholders.

Within the LeadIT Secretariat, Rob is responsible for implementation of the LeadIT Summit and development of industry transition dialogues bringing together country and company members.

Somya leads the Industry Transition Roadmaps work at the LeadIT Secretariat. She is a expert in decision making support, stakeholder engagement, technology and process innovation towards realizing the sustainable development goals.

Within the LeadIT Secretariat, Somya leads the creation of an interactive guide on how to design roadmaps and analysis on how developing nations might engage in industry transition.

Aaron is the Policy and Roadmap Lead within the LeadIT Secretariat. Aaron is a policy and finance expert with twenty years of experience working on climate and sustainability transitions and engaging with private and public actors.

Within LeadIT, Aaron works together with LeadIT Members from government and industry in the Working Group on Finance and on roadmap implementation processes to find policy solutions that help accelerate the transition to net-zero emissions.

Felipe leads the Secretariat’s efforts to suppport two parallel industry transition partnerships between the governments of India-Sweden and Brazil-UK. He brings his expertise in policy development and identifying policy implementation issues.

Eileen is an Analyst within the LeadIT Secretariat. With experience in both industry as well as research, her focus is on building knowledge to ensure that governmental, industrial and corporate choices are based on scientific evidence.

Within LeadIT, Eileen carries out data analysis on the state and the pace of heavy industry transition and builds on and further develops our industry transition trackers.

Erik is a Research Associate at SEI Headquarters – Global Agendas, Climate and Systems Division; Energy and Industry Transitions Team focusing on transport and e-mobility. Erik is also engaged in the Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT), an initiative aimed at accelerating decarbonization of heavy industry.

Before joining SEI and LeadIT, Erik worked with implementation of the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) at the Swedish Energy Agency. He also has experience as a data analyst, having worked with statistics and forecast modeling in the transport sector. Erik has co-written several publications in the public sector aimed at providing a knowledge base and analysis of the state of the energy sector.

Nadia is a Policy Coordinator at SEI Headquarters – Energy and Industry Transitions Team, Global Agendas, Climate and Systems Division. Within the LeadIT Secretariat, Nadia facilitates international multi-stakeholder collaboration to accelerate the transition to Net Zero in heavy industry and hard-to-abate transport sectors.

Yani works as the program manager at the LeadIT Secretariat. In addition to coordinating across the initiative to help meet the program objectives, she works to support the strategic program development to boost coherence, effectiveness, and impact. Her work cuts across all three strategic pillars of LeadIT and she actively engages with partners and members to ensure successful and impactful execution of program activities.

Jane leads the Secretariat’s global communications efforts. Her role is to drive impact for the work of LeadIT through communications plans, providing strategic advice to help maximize the global influence.

Within the LeadIT Secretariat, Jane is responsible for planning and developing communications activities on industry transition in collaboration with LeadIT members and partners.