Håkan Perslow is a project manager for Smart Cities projects at RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden. Håkan is leading and coordinating the FP7 Smart Cities project SINFONIA which runs between 2014 and 2019. In addition to SINFONIA, Håkan is also leading the work on upscaling smart solutions within the H2020 SCC1 project RUGGEDISED. As a project manager, Håkan specialises in leading project consortiums, facilitating meetings and preparing proposals for EU and national funding. Before joining RISE in 2013, Håkan worked at the City of Gothenburg with EU related policies and EU funded mobility projects for 15 years. He holds a Master’s Degree of European Politics from the University of Lund.