Head of the Director General’s Office of the European Spallation Source (ESS): A chat with Karin Hélène from Sweden

111: Karin Hélène is Head of the Director General’s Office of the
European Spallation Source (ESS), a European intergovernmental
research facility under construction in Lund, Sweden. ESS will
probe materials and processes down to the atomic scale using
beams of neutrons, with a wide range of applications from
engineering to energy to the life sciences.


Karin is Swedish and has an extensive international background,
having lived, studied and worked during a period of almost 20
years in the United States, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Thailand.
She started her career as Executive Assistant in 1987 in Saudi
Arabia and has worked within the private sector, the Swedish
government and for non-profit organisations. She has worked at
ESS since 2011.


Karin was nominated and runner up for the Swedish Office
Professionals Award in 2014, she believes in life-long-learning
and is constantly looking for opportunities to develop her role,
her most recent training focusing on the role of Chief-of-Staff
and Management.


Karin Hélène is the former Chair of International Management
Assistants (IMA) in Southern Sweden and member of the Swedish
National Board. Since 2020 she is a member of IMA Global
Executive Committee where her role is Executive Governance
Officer. Since 2018 she has represented Sweden at the World
Administrators Summit.


2015 she founded an internal network for assistants and support
personnel at ESS and since a few years she is a mentor for
students of the ‘certified Executive Business Assistant’
education.


 


Connect with Karin:


LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karin-hélène


Twitter: https://twitter.com/Karin_EFH


European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS):
https://europeanspallationsource.se/


International Management Assistant (IMA):
https://www.ima-network.org/


World Administrator Summit:
https://wa-alliance.com/home/world-administrators-summit/