Lina Svedin completed her graduate work at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Department of Political Science at Syracuse University. She also has an M.A. in international relations from Stockholm University. Lina has extensive experience working with public administration practitioners and researchers around the world, supervising case study research, and teaching and training policy makers in crisis management. She has worked as a Special Advisor on crisis management for the Swedish Cabinet Office and Training Director at the National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training located at the Swedish National Defence College. A long-term associate of CRISMART and of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at Syracuse University, Lina's approach is interdisciplinary but her research focuses on crises, cooperation, ethics, and policy analysis. She has published several monographs and has edited a number of volumes on crisis management in European countries.