Karlberg, Gabriel

Affiliated Researcher to GaPP, House of Governance and Public Policy.

Over the last three decades, I’ve worked across entrepreneurship, larger companies, financial systems, public sector, and academia often at the intersection of these domains. This has given me a strong understanding of how systems actually function, and why many well-intended initiatives fail in practice.

My research is on the governance of outsourced public sector services. Management consultant (Ex-McKinsey) and entrepreneur/intrapreneur with broad experience from both public and private sector with clients from the Swedish government offices, Swedish agency for economic and regional growth to listed companies, fast-growing companies and start-ups. Nominated expert by the Swedish government in SOU 2021:03 on Culture and creative industries. Board member. Was appointed to the national art gallery Thielska Galleriet by the Swedish government.

I am an experienced lecturer and program leader and have taught at SSE since 2005. The last years I have been primarily at SSE Executive Education where I was Program leader for Företagets ekonomi and tailor made programs for one of the largest law firms in Sweden. Also Teacher at Digital transformation about AI in practice

Previously Researcher at SIR and Visiting teacher in Accounting as well as Strategy consultant to the Executive directors at SSE Executive Education and to the President’s office.

Contact on LinkedIn

Selected publications and reports

K. Wennberg & G. Karlberg (2025). Från fragment till förflyttning - att bygga kapacitet för systeminnovation i offentlig sektor 

G. Karlberg (2016). Styrning av outsourcad offentlig service - en balansakt mellan fasthet och flexibilitet

Book chapter in Ahlgren, Per Christian; Lind, Johnny; Nyland,Kari. (2019) Styring av samarbeid i offentlig sektor. Fagbokforlaget.

Book chapter: "New funding for microenterprises and SMEs" in Sweden through the crisis (2019)

När EU-garanterar skulden. Tillväxtverket 2023

Från forskning till konkurrenskraft. Tillväxtverket 2023

Kompletterande rapport till SOU 2021:03 Kreativa Sverige om företagare med utländsk bakgrund, ungas företagande, främjande samt kapitalförsörjning inom de kulturella och kreativa näringarna. Regeringskansliet 

Arbetslivet som lärmiljö. Myndigheten för Skolutveckling 2006