Åsa Lindgren
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Normally Åsa's work consists of planning and conducting research expeditions to the Polar Regions; Antarctica, Svalbard and the Canadian and Russian Arctic.
Åsa has a doctorate from the Department of Botany at Stockholm University and has conducted research in plant ecology all around the Arctic region.
She has worked for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, with projects focusing on ecotourism and the protection of mountain gorillas. Åsa has also done a study on the opportunities and risks of ecotourism on Samoa in the South Pacific.
Åsa has 3 children, loves all kinds of outdoor activities and spends a lot of time hiking, running, skiing or riding one of the family's four horses together with the kids.