Anja Taarup Nordlund, CEO

Born
1973

Office
Nationality: Danish and Swedish
Nordic Consulting Group AB
Resident in Sweden
Mobile: +46 70 268 50 14
Email: anja.nordlund(at)ncgsw.se

Profession
Sociologist; Head of Board and Partner in NCG Sweden

Education
M.Sc in International Development Studies and Public Management, University of Roskilde (2000), individual courses and trainings in e.g. cultural policies, EU social policies, gender analysis, managing for results, and strategic communication.

Country Experience
Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Denmark, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel/Palestine, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republic, Liberia, Macedonia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Serbia, Sweden, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.

Sector Experience
More than 14 years of experience in the field of gender, more than 10 years in Results Based Management, public reforms, infrastructure, and CSR.

Key Qualification
Sociologist specialised in gender equality and gender mainstreaming working with private enterprises and the development cooperation, ranging from gender analysis, trainings, and coaching to reach better results by applying a gender and diversity perspective (decentralisation, enforcement, urban safety, CSR, management, performance). She is also hired for designing and carrying out trainings and coaching on gender and measuring results.

She has since 2007 been working with large scale investments (e.g. water, sanitation, solid waste, electrification, district heating, environment, irrigation), where she carry through social due diligence and audits, gender mainstreaming, gender monitoring, customer surveys with a gender perspective, analyse and coach private and public infrstructure companies on equal opportunities.

Anja is also managing large contracts as teamleader in gender mainstreaming investments.

She uses trainings tools to to increase stakeholder engagement and client ownership for sustainable project implementation in private entperprises, investment objects and development agents. She is contracted by private Swedish firms, the World Bank (WB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Bank (EIB), UN system, the European Comission (EC), Sida and Swedish embassies, DfID, the Dutch Foreign Ministry and a range of international NGOs.

Languages
Danish – mother tongue
English – full proficiency
Spanish – full proficiency
Swedish – full proficiency
German – intermediary
French – basic
Russian – beginner