Linda Leopold is a Swedish author and the Head of AI Strategy at global fashion retailer H&M Group. She is a former Editor-in-Chief at the fashion and culture magazine Bon and the author of two non-fiction books. Over the years, her writing has appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines. She has been a columnist for Scandinavia’s largest financial newspaper and worked as an innovation strategist at the intersection of fashion and technology. A frequent public speaker on AI and ethics, her passion lies in merging fashion and culture with science and technology. As a side project, she creates AI generated art.
Her debut book, the critically acclaimed Fag hag, about the close bond between straight women and gay men, was published in 2007. In 2013 it was followed by Smartast i världen: IQ-sällskapen från insidan (World’s Smartest: The High IQ Societies from the Inside). Here she takes the readers to secret Mensa meetings and tells the astonishing life stories of the individuals with the world’s highest intelligence test scores. She recounts the history of IQ testing and interviews leading psychologists and intelligence researchers. With a passion for storytelling, Linda Leopold merges personal stories with science in her writing, to make the reading both an emotional and intellectual experience.
Photography by Benjamin Vnuk