Viveka Palm

Viveka Palm is a co-chair of the UN Inter-Agency and Expert Group for the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDG) since 2019. She has been a representative in the group for North America and Northern and Western Europe since 2015. The group gives advice in the process to develop the indicator system for the global follow up of the Agenda 2030.

Palm is a deputy director for the department of Regions and Environment at Statistics Sweden. She has a masters in Engineering Physics from KTH and also holds a PhD and a associate professorship from KTH .

She was the project leader for the Prince-project, Policy Relevant Indicators for Consumption and Environment, that was funded by the Swedish EPA and The Swedish Water and Marine Agency, to investigate how to follow up on the Swedish Generational goal, by measuring the environmental pressure fron consumption both within and outside of Sweden.

She is chair for the OECD Working Party for Environmental Information (WPEI) that meets once a year to maintain and develop the environmental information that OECD is using in its analyses and publishing in its data bases.