lsvenss1@jhu.edu Lisa Svensson is a Diplomat-in-Residence at the Center for Transatlantic Relations. She is particularly interested in energy, water and environmental issues. Her research interests focus on formulating and implementing policies for sustainable economic growth. She has served in the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 2002. Since 2004, Ms. Svensson has held the position of first Secretary at the Embassy of Sweden in Washington D.C. As a member of the Trade and Economic Section, she worked with water and environmental, corporate social responsibility, transportation and aviation issues. Prior to her assignment at the Embassy, she held a position at the Office of Export Promotion and Internal Affairs, at the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm. She assessed policy options, made recommendations, and wrote memos on export promotion and internal market issues. She was responsible for overseeing two governmental authorities: the National Board of Trade, and the Swedish Board for Accreditation and Conformity Assessment. From 2000-2002, she was a Project Leader at the Swedish Trade Council in New York. She headed a Europe-U.S. transatlantic energy project focusing on the effects of deregulation of the energy market. She also carried out research within the field of renewable energy sources. Ms. Svensson received her Master's in Business Administration and Master's in Human and Economic Geography from the School of Business, Economics and Law at Gothenburg University in Sweden. During her course of study, Ms. Svensson carried out research for the European Commission DGXXIII on integrated quality management of urban areas. Ms. Svensson is currently working on her doctoral thesis on the subject of discourse analysis behind policies for economic growth. The study puts forward the importance in identifying and analyzing the underlying discourses that can be seen as a general and prevalent system for the formation and articulation of ideas in a particular period of time and setting. The study identifies the discourses that economic policies on different levels refer to and utilize as legitimate tools for actions. Ms. Svensson´s fellowship is enabled by the Sweden-American Foundation, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Dr. Marcus Wallenberg Foundation. | 
