Charlotte Rydh has more than 25 years’ experience of major gift fundraising, alumni and donor relations, volunteer management and marketing as well as change management working for academic institutions and non-profits in Sweden and internationally. Since 2016, she is heading the Swedish Fundraising Association as Secretary General coming from the role as Secretary General for AFS Interkulturell Utbildning, part of the world’s largest non-profit exchange organization founded in 1914.

As a graduate of the Stockholm School of Economics, where she majored in international economics, Charlotte also studied the marketing for the non-profit sector during an exchange MBA course at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She has been a member of the CASE Europe Board of Trustees, a board members of Sweden for UNHCR, Research!Sweden and Brakeley Nordic, and she is currently on the Advisory Board of Film and Tell and President for the European Fundraising Association, EFA.