Cecilia Ruthström-Ruin

• Chief, Terrorism Prevention Branch
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Master's in International Affairs and Fulbright grantee, Columbia University, New York; PhD, University of Lund, Sweden, dissertation focused on international refugee aid and early development of UNHCR. Formerly: diplomat, Swedish Foreign Service including: Counsellor, Swedish Embassy, Tokyo; Deputy Director, Department for European Security Policy; Deputy Secretary-General, First Annual Review Conference of International Compact with Iraq; 2004-08, Ambassador and Counter-Terrorism Coordinator. Since 2008, current position. Author of books and articles on refugee policies, on human rights and on Japanese politics and society.