Reginald Austin

I am a dedicated, award-winning DEI Manager, university lecturer and business executive with over 10 years of DEI program design and implementation. As American, Swede, who has lived and worked on 3 continents, I bring a novel perspective to the practice of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Creator/Host/Executive Producer | KOPPLINGEN (Show) | Santa Monica, CA June 2022 - Present

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Manager and JEDI Committee Chair | Northeast Valley Health Corporation | San Fernando, CA September 2021 - Present

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultant (Pro bono) | Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church | Canoga, CA December 2022 - Present

Lecturer and Co-Supervisor for the Masters Program (Faculty of Science) | Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda, October 2020 - October 2023 (Initial appointment), extended to February 2025

Lecturer (Department of Physiology) Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, August 2020 - August 2023

Founder and Managing Partner | Ramstedt Ström AB, Stockholm, Sweden June 2019 - September 2021

Co-founder and CEO | CR Artists AB/Libella Artists AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Postdoctoral Fellow | Karolinska Institute (Center for Molecular Medicine) | Stockholm, Sweden May 2009 - Jan. 2010

PhD (Medicine and Medical Science) | Karolinska Institute (Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery) | Stockholm, Sweden,  Thesis: Novel pathways regulating glucose and lipid metabolism in human skeletal muscle April 2005 - April 2009

Bachelor of Science (Biological Sciences) | Illinois State University, Normal, IL August 1992 - May 1995