Ylva Williams

CEO at Stockholm Science City Foundation

Speaker

Ylva Williams has been CEO of the Stockholm Science City foundation since 2009. Ylva is a civil engineer in chemical engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She has a strong background in life science with more than 35 years within research, sales, marketing, strategic communication, and place branding from, among others, the communications agency JKL, Business Sweden, Pharmacia Biotech, KEBO Lab, and VWR International.

In the years 2016-2019, Ylva Williams worked on the board of the life science network Council of European BioRegions, and in the years 2016-2022, on the board of the company wholly owned by Järfälla municipality. She has been an associate board member in Hagastadens Fastighetsägarförening since 2010.

Since 2010, Ylva Williams has been part of the management company Arthur D. Little's jury that awards the Arthur D. Little Nordic Life Science Award. Since 2017, she has also been one of the jury members for the City of Stockholm's innovation scholarship in the category of life science, healthcare, and health, and since 2021 a jury member for the SKAPA award, which is Sweden's most significant innovation award, providing support to inventors to develop their ideas.