Pella Thiel is an ecologist, small-scale farmer, author and educator. She lives in the archipelago of Stockholm and works with relational, systemic leadership for a society in harmony with nature at all levels, from local resilience to international legal frameworks. Pella is a knowledge expert in the UN Harmony with Nature programme and has co-founded Swedish hubs of international networks like Transition Sweden (part of Transition Network) and End Ecocide Sweden (part of Stop Ecocide International).
She is an associate of the Centre for Environment and Development Studies at Uppsala University and teaches regularly at several Swedish universities. She also leads a one-year ecopsychology programme with the NGO Lodyn. Pella has written and taught on Earth jurisprudence and rights of nature for over a decade, including co-authoring one of the first books on the subject in Swedish, Naturlagen (with Henrik Hallgren).
