As senior adviser and deputy director at the Swedish Ministry of Infrastructure in Stockholm, Åsa Vagland is responsible for such emerging technologies as connected, cooperative, shared and automated mobility, as well as mobility as a service. She also manages the Swedish Prime Minister’s Innovation Partnership Programme in next-generation travel and transportation and develops policy and strategies for transport and mobility as well as gender objectives and gender mainstreaming in the transportation sector.

Vagland earned a degree in social science from Farsta Gymnasium, an upper secondary school outside Stockholm and received her university degree in regional, transportation, and societal planning at the University of Stockholm.