Kristina Kappelin has been Superintendent and Chief Executive Officer of Villa San Michele and Honorary Consul of Sweden since 2018. She is a writer and journalist, well known in her home country as the Italian correspondent for Swedish public television (SVT).

After earning a degree in Humanities from Lund University and a Master’s in Journalism from the University of Gothenburg, in 1984 she was awarded a scholarship at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna.