Bodil Valero

Bodil Valero is a Green politician with a long political career, beginning as a local and regional councillor before becoming a member of the Swedish Parliament and later the European Parliament. She is currently Co-Convener of the Global Greens, having previously been part of the Swedish Greens delegation to the European Green Party and the Global Greens Coordination. As a lawyer specialising in migration and environmental issues, her work has covered energy and climate, and she became the Swedish Greens’ spokesperson for migration, security, foreign affairs, cooperation and arms export control.

In the European Parliament, her main areas of work were security and defence, arms control, human and minority rights, migration and foreign affairs. She graduated in Romance languages, including Spanish, French and Catalan, and later in law from Uppsala University, having initially studied music and drama. Valero has been Global Chair of the G100 Security and Defence Wing since the start of the network and held the presidency of the network as a whole in 2025. She is also a co-founder of the NGO African European Parliamentarians Initiative (AEPI).