Born 1932. Former member of the European Parliament - Chairperson of the Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities; deputy member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence Policy.
Ms. Theorin has devoted her political life to disarmament, social justice and the advancement of women. She has been Chairperson of the World Women Parliamentarians 1985-86 and President of Parliamentarians for Global Action since 1995. She chaired the Swedish Disarmament Commission 1982-91 and serves also today as Chairperson of the International Peace Bureau.
She chaired the UN's Commission of Experts on Nuclear Weapons 1989-90 and the UN's Expert Committee on the Reallocation of Military Spending to the Environment 1990-91. She chaired the UN's Commission of Experts on Equality and the Agenda for Peace 1994 and was a member of the Canberrra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons 1995-96.
She holds an honorary doctor's degree at the University of Gothenberg.

Ms. Theorin joined TFF as adviser in 1999.