- Born in Stockholm in 1956
- LL.M. University of Stockholm 1990
- Private business (translation Spanish-Swedish, English-Swedish) 1982-1991
- District Court Law Clerk, Court of Appeal Reporting Clerk, District Court Assistant Judge, Associate Judge of Appeal 1991-1996
- Legal Adviser on European Union Affairs to the Swedish Parliament 1997
- Legal Adviser to the Swedish Ministry for Justice 1997-1999
- Ombudsman against Sexual Orientation Discrimination 1999-2008
- Senior Legal Adviser (Human Rights) to the Swedish Ministries for Integration and Gender Equality and for Employment 2009-2011
- Director General, Swedish Accident Investigation Authority 2011 – ongoing
Co-council in the case D. and Sweden et al. vs. Council of the European Union, cases no. C-122/99 P och C-125/99 P, 1998 – Negotiator for the Swedish Government in various Council Working Groups, Council of the European Union, Brussels, 1997-1998 – Expert on several parliamentary committees and public inquiries on changes in family law, asylum legislation and on discrimination issues in Sweden 1999-2006 – National expert for Sweden in the European Commission’s European Group of Independent Experts on Sexual Orientation Discrimination (EGESO) 2002-2004 – Founding member of the European Commission on Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL) 2005 – Independent expert advisor on Ius Commune Casebook on Non-Discrimination Law 2006 – Board Member for Sweden of the Management Board of the European Union Monitoring Centre against Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) 2004-2007 – Board Member for Sweden of the Interim Management Board of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) 2007 – Board member, Swedish Association for Labour Law, 2005 – 2012 – Legal advisor (‘conceiller’) in E.B. ./. France (right to access to adoption without discrimination based on sexual orientation is a right protected under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms), European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, Grand Chamber Judgment 22 January 2008 (Appl. 43546/02) – Expert for Sweden, European Commission’s Governmental Expert Group on Discrimination, Brussels, 2009-2011 – Chairperson, Council of Europe Expert Committee on Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity, Strasbourg (DH-LGBT), 2009-2010 – Chairperson, expert panel on ‘Opposing Grave Human Rights Violations based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity’ at the United Nations General Assembly Meeting, New York, 2009 – Special Inquirer commissioned by the Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality to draft possible future legislation on lack of reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities as a form of discrimination, 2010 – Member of the Swedish National Delegation for Human Rights, 2009-2010 – Special Inquirer commissioned by the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden to carry out an independent evaluation of the Government’s Second National Human Rights Action Plan, 2009-2011 –Advisor to the Government of Georgia on the elaboration of its anti-discrimination legislation, 2013.
Has lectured regularly in Sweden and abroad, e.g.:
- Courses in European Union anti-discrimination law at the Academy of European Law in Trier, Germany;
- Courses in Human Rights and Discrimination Law at faculties of law of the Universities of Uppsala, Stockholm and Umeå, Sweden;
- Training courses for judges in Sweden;
- Training courses for attorneys of the National Prosecution Service in Sweden;
- Training courses for civil service candidates of the Government Ministries in Sweden;
- Training courses for future diplomats of the Swedish Foreign Service;
- Courses on Sexual Orientation Discrimination at university faculties of law in Spain, e.g. University of La Laguna, Tenerife, University of Jaén and University of Córdoba;