Anna Ervast Öberg, operating manager at the housing developer company Folkhem, has a degree in architecture from The Royal Institute of Technology KTH in Stockholm, as a research student at the University of Tokyo and a completed master’s thesis in collaboration with Columbia in New York. 

After seven years as an architect at the Swedish architectural firm SandellSandberg and as a teacher in urban planning at the KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm, Anna has been working at Folkhem for over ten years, responsible for the company’s development and portfolio containing 1,600 housing units in eleven different timber projects.  

Folkhem decided in 2012 to exclusively develop and build in timber due to the climate benefits and has since developed the world’s largest pure portfolio of multi-housing projects in various building systems in timber in urban contexts. 

Anna has worked dedicatedly since 2014 with developing the projects, portfolio, and the position of the company. Building an expertise with the developer’s perspective within the field of large-scale housing projects in various timber structures with a vision of participating in a green shift of the building sector through timber, bioeconomy, and architecture. 

She was the head project manager of the most famous project Cederhusen with its 14 stories and 240 apartments, the first CLT-project to be built in the inner city of Stockholm, on top of three traffic tunnels and one of the biggest urban housing-projects built in CLT in the world. 

Setting the agenda for the company’s market positioning includes being a front-runner, meaning every project is given a task to contribute and manifest a push for development of the sector. This means initiating and participating in several innovative research projects, such as the Eu-financed project Woodcircles for example, multidisciplinary collaborations and a learning through the real projects and development of the portfolio. 

Anna is based in Stockholm, mother of three, and with a passion for playing cello.