A timely fika with Sweden’s Ambassador Annika Thunborg

PARITY Ambassador Annika Thunborg and husband Aaron Tovish are a great example of love and equal partnerships

She’s looked at foreign policy from the outside as a journalist, theoretically as an academic, and now on the inside as a diplomat. “I felt I was eager to actually work with foreign policy from the inside and also in practice, contribute—at least a little—to making the world a better place,” she said. “That, I think, is my motivation for working in the foreign service. To really try to contribute and do our best to make the world a little better.

Before Ikea and H&M hit our shores, Filipinos knew Sweden for the Nobel Prize and for being the source of great musical acts, from ABBA to Robyn and Swedish House Mafia. Sweden, however, is also very much present in the world of tech, particularly tech that we use in day-to-day life. The way we listen to music now, through an app called Spotify, comes from Sweden.

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