Pernilla Stålhammar

Eva Karin Pernilla Stålhammar (née Johansson; born 1971) is a Swedish politician and former member of the Riksdag, the national legislature. A member of the Green Party, she represented Stockholm Municipality between July 2017 and September 2018.[1] She had been a substitute member of the Riksdag three times: October 2014 to June 2016 (for Åsa Romson); June 2016 and July 2017 (for Per Bolund); and January 2019 to November 2021 (for Per Bolund).[1]

Stålhammar is the daughter of psychologist Stefan Johansson and the museum curator Barbara Johansson.[1] She was educated at Linköping.[1] She has a master's degree in economics from Växjö University.[1] She also studied economics at the University of Dundee, French at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and journalism at Stockholm University's Journalisthögskolan i Stockholm (JMK).[1]

Stålhammar was a national economist at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (1994–1995) and in charge of Sida's development work with Palestine and involvement in the Middle East peace process (1995–1998).[1] She was a Swedish representative at the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (1999–2001).[1] She worked for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (2001–2003) and for the International Task Force on Global Public Goods (2003–2005).[1] She was Sida's Ethiopia country co-ordinator (2007–2009).[1]