Katrine Marçal

Katrine Marçal is a journalist at Dagens Nyheter and one of Sweden’s most experienced international moderators. She specializes in leading conferences in English especially for Swedish clients. In her role as a financial journalist, she has interviewed many of the world’s most famous economic thinkers, such as Nouriel Roubini, Nassim Taleb and Yanis Varoufakis. She was also one of only a handful of European journalists who had the opportunity to interview Michelle Obama in New York in 2018.

Katrine Marçal’s books are published in more than 20 languages. As a speaker, she focuses on lectures on women and innovation. She has given two notable TEDx talks and spoke about gender and innovation for clients such as Oxford University, Chalmers Institute of Technology, DNB Bank and Skagen Fonder.

Current lecture

The Mother of Invention: How good ideas disappear when we forget women.
Why didn’t we get wheels on suitcases until 1972? Why were electric cars considered “feminine” when they came along in the late 19th century. And how come it was a company specializing in women’s underwear that made Neil Armstrong’s moon suit?

Katrine Marçal leads the audience through fascinating examples of how innovation has been held back by our ideas about gender. She argues that our inability to capitalize on women’s experience is almost as big an obstacle today – the future will be shaped by the companies that dare to think differently about inclusion.

The audience will gain an increased understanding of how a lack of gender equality affects innovation within their own organizations. Katrine delivers both concrete examples and a clear picture of how important this perspective on innovation is for anyone who really wants to be able to think new things in their field.

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