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New project manager with focus on digitized and connected logistics

Thursday, August 19, 2021

Vanja Carlén has been the new project manager at CLOSER since the beginning of August. Vanja has a great interest in data-driven innovation and sustainability and will work in the theme area of ​​digitized and connected logistics.

Vanja is a trained civil engineer with a focus on Industrial Economics and Supply Chain at Chalmers. Vanja most recently comes from AI Sweden where she leads the program AI-driven mobility where AI Sweden together with Drive Sweden enables AI acceleration in the mobility area and where actors from different parts of society gather to jointly identify challenges and opportunities, build new knowledge and create new mobility solutions using AI. Something she will continue to develop in her role at CLOSER.

Vanja has previously worked as a project manager and strategic buyer in, among other things, logistics at Volvo Cars and Orkla ASA.

Vanja is driven by innovation and how data-driven insights from actors throughout the value chain can be used to create an efficient and sustainable transport system.