Beatrice Crona

Beatrice Crona (born 1974) is an ecologist, a professor at Stockholm University, and the executive director of the Program on Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2023 she became a science director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

Early life and education Beatrice Crona was born in 1974. She has a MSc in Marine Ecotoxicology. Her PhD focused on mangrove ecology and marine governance. She has led this program since its inception in 2013. At GEDB she developed research to understand how seafood trade influences marine resource governance outcomes, and researches new approaches to sustainable finance. Beatrice Crona is a leader of the "Patterns of the Anthropocene" research stream at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

In May 2008, Beatrice began as an assistant professor at the Stockholm Resilience Center, at Stockholm University with funding from Formas, a Swedish research council for sustainable development. She is currently a professor at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University.

Awards and honors Crona was elected as a member of the Young Academy of Sweden and was a member from 2012 to 2017.

In 2017, Crona was nominated to be a SIGHT Fellow (Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation), at Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

Grants Crona received funding in 2018 for a project called ‘Financial Dimensions of a key climate system "Wild Card": The Atmospheric Brown Cloud over South Asia’. She also received a five-year grant in 2016 to see how supply chains can improve fisheries sustainability globally from the Swedish Research Council Formas. In 2015 she received a grant from the Stockholm Resilience Center in 2015 for her paper "Masked, diluted and drowned out: how global seafood trade weakens signals from marine ecosystems"

Public engagement She has led hackathons with the fishing industry, and improved reporting guidelines for fisheries improvement projects with Sustainable Fisheries Partnership. She is a Subject Editor for the academic journal, Ecology and Society.

Notable publications

Willett, Walter, Johan Rockström, Brent Loken, Marco Springmann, Tim Lang, Sonja Vermeulen, Tara Garnett et al. "Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems." The Lancet 393, no. 10170 (2019): 447–492. Bodin, Örjan, and Beatrice I. Crona. "The role of social networks in natural resource governance: What relational patterns make a difference?." Global environmental change 19, no. 3 (2009): 366–374. Berkes, Fikret, Terry P. Hughes, Robert S. Steneck, James A. Wilson, David R. Bellwood, Beatrice Crona, Carl Folke et al. "Globalization, roving bandits, and marine resources." Science 311, no. 5767 (2006): 1557–1558. Walters, Bradley B., Patrik Rönnbäck, John M. Kovacs, Beatrice Crona, Syed Ainul Hussain, Ruchi Badola, Jurgenne H. Primavera, Edward Barbier, and Farid Dahdouh-Guebas. "Ethnobiology, socio-economics and management of mangrove forests: A review." Aquatic Botany 89, no. 2 (2008): 220–236. Bodin, Örjan, Beatrice Crona, and Henrik Ernstson. "Social networks in natural resource management: what is there to learn from a structural perspective?." Ecology and society 11, no. 2 (2006).

Personal life She is married to Tim Daw, who also teaches at the Stockholm Resilience Center. They have two children; a son and a daughter