Lisa Emelia Svensson

Lisa Emelia Svensson (born ) is a Swedish diplomat who serves as the Global director at the UN Environment office in Nairobi. She was previously her country's ambassador for Ocean.

Svensson and her for siblings were brought up in a rural environment that was focussed more on the sea than on their home in Bohuslän. Bohuslän is the most western part of Sweden on the border with Norway.

Svensson has a doctorate in business administration/political economy. In 2002 she joined Swedens diplomatic service serving in American and Belgium. She has been a diplomat-in-residence looking at Climate Change while at Johns Hopkins University. In 2008 she published Combating Climate Change: A Transatlantic Approach to Common Solutions. The book described the state of progress informed by a 2007 conference "California-European Dialogue on Climate Change."

She led the European communities negotiations regarding sustainable development aspects of agreements with ASEAN, MERCOSUR and China.

She was the Ambassador for Corporate Social Responsibility in her country's Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Later she was Sweden's Ambassador for the Ocean being responsible for government advice on international ocean related issues.

Svensson was offered the role as the Global director for Ocean for the United Nations Environment office in 2017 where she is responsible for their work on both marine and coast ecology. She is based in Nairobi in Kenya.