Dr. Cecilia Uddén Mannheimer is the Swedish Radio Middle East Correspondent and Bureau Chief since 2006, and has reported previously and until this date from the Middle East during the Oslo peace process and throughout other major events in Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Egypt.  She is well known for her frank comments and her fearless approach to sensitive issues.

Cecilia Uddén Mannheimer has received all of the major Swedish journalism awards, including the “Swedish Pulitzer” twice, and the Swedish publishers club prize twice.  She also holds an honorary PhD from the University of Gothenburg.