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has become renowned for her valuable networks and
her successful business-generating activities, for example through the female network Barbro’s Best & Brightest, the Female Economist of the Year award and within life sciences she is perhaps best known as the founder of SALSS, the Swedish-American Life Science Summit. Over the years she has answered many questions about networking and how to build a successful career. Her own career however was more of a coincidence than a strategic plan she says when we meet during one of the very first rainy autumn days at biotech company Vironova’s office in Stockholm. She has been in town for a few weeks, not least because of the happy occasion of her son’s wedding, and she chitchats a little with the others at the office before serving herself a cup of coffee. “But a fortunate coincidence,” she adds when we sit down at a table in one of the modern conference rooms. Barbro is smart and quick-witted, but she is also curious and she makes people feel relaxed and noticed. She likes to discuss US politics and who will win this year’s Nobel Prize and during our interview she suggested at least ten different successful women I should speak to. 38