Lena Östlund

Lena Östlund is French-Swedish and passionate about defending girls and women’s rights to create a safe world for them, both offline and online.​ She is currently a Project Officer for the UN agency the International Telecommunication Union, where she works with various projects and initiatives for gender digital inclusion. Within this, she helps coordinate activities of the EQUALS Global Partnership to Bridge the Gender Digital Divide, a multistakeholder platform focusing on four key areas: Access, Skills, Leadership and Research. One of the key projects Lena leads is the EQUALS Her Digital Skills initiative, aiming to provide access to free, gender-transformative digital skills training, capacity-building and mentoring opportunities for 1 million women and girls by 2026.