Citizen 2026 – The Contributors
SPEAKERS & PANELISTS CITIZEN 2026 | We’re bringing together leading voices from across the Nordic region and beyond. Strategic thinkers, experienced practitioners, and municipalities who are leading the way.
Pascal Tshibanda
CONTRIBUTOR | CITIZEN 2026 | Pascal Tshibanda is Head of Communications at Norrköping Municipality. Previously, he served as Communications Director in Botkyrka and Head of Communications in Katrineholm and Falköping.
Astrid Haug
SPEAKER CITIZEN 2026 | Astrid is one of Scandinavia’s sharpest voices on digital sovereignty. At Kommunikationsdøgn 2025 in Denmark, she challenged municipalities to reconsider their dependence on Meta and X. Not just as a practical GDPR risk, but as a question of democratic values.
Anette Dey
CONTRIBUTOR | CITIZEN 2026 | Anette Dey is Head of Communications at Bydel Frogner, City of Oslo, where she has led a fundamental shift in how the district communicates with its residents.
Petra Sintorn
CONTRIBUTOR CITIZEN 2026 | Petra Sintorn is Head of Unit at Botkyrka Municipality, responsible for citizen services, and a doctoral researcher at the Executive Doctoral School for Public Sector Digital Transformation – an initiative by the Swedish Centre for Digital Innovation focused on strengthening digitalisation in the public sector.
For municipalities, the preparedness question is not just about having a plan. It is about whether the people and the channels are actually ready when something goes wrong.
Lars Petter Kjær
CONTRIBUTOR CITIZEN 2026 | Lars Petter Kjær leads communication, digitalisation and the political secretariat at Sandefjord Municipality. His role sits at the crossroads of how the municipality talks to its residents and how it organises itself to do that better over time.
Edvard Unsgaard
SPEAKER CITIZEN 2026 | Edvard Unsgaard has spent his career on both sides of the hardest conversations in public life. He spent seven years as a political journalist and Moscow correspondent at Sveriges Radio’s Ekot, before becoming Press Secretary to Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. He knows what it looks like when institutions are put under pressure, and what separates those that communicate well from those that don’t.
Ola Gäverth
CONTRIBUTOR CITIZEN 2026 – MUNICIPALITY OF HUDDINGE | Two sides of the same question — a view from press and public service
Carmel O’Hare
CONTRIBUTOR | CITIZEN 2026 | Carmel O’Hare is Director of Services for Corporate Services, Innovation and Emergency Management at Monaghan County Council, Ireland.
Agile innovation in a new tech landscape
CONTRIBUTORS | CITIZEN 2026 | Can municipalities actually move & innovate fast? Morten & Kjell is here to prove a point
