My name is Karen Landmark, I am Norwegian and the mother of two children. I spend as much time as I can outside and I have always had close relationship to nature. Nature has guided my choices, both educational and professional.

I have a mixed work background. But for most I have worked in and for private sector. The last five years I have been in the management of a Norwegian renewable energy company that works with wind energy, solar energy and green hydrogen. I was the chief strategy officer there and I also held the position as chair of the board for our holding company responsible for developing our activities and building the subsidiaries in India and Sri Lanka.

My educational background is a mix of environmental studies, political communication, sustainability and societal transitions. It’s within the latter I did my PhD – where I in particular looked at the historical and contemporary relationship between humans and nature and also on how corporate sustainability is understood and implemented in companies.

Over the last three years, I have been studying and connected with the regenerative field – with the acknowledgement that we humans have already depleted our ecosystems to a degree in which sustainability is not enough. We need to rebuild, regenerate, restore and revitalize. I will use learning from this field when we look at the organizational culture and strategies in GA.