Lars-Olof Ljungbergs academic background is in Social Work, Public Health and Healthcare Management. He has been the Director of Psychiatry in four Swedish counties, for Malmo University Hospital and for a private care company, Aleris. He was 1999-2000 President of The European Association of Hospital Managers, Section for Psychiatry. He has been appointed by WHO as Mental Health Expert in 15 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, with tasks as organizing the support for refugees in Albania during the Kosovo war, revising the mental health legislation in Georgia including forensic psychiatry, developing a mental health plan for Kyrgyzstan and staff training in Vietnam and Russia. He has represented Boston University, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, at a World Congress in Sydney 2001 and at a training for hospital managers in Israel 2009. He was on the board of Human Rights in Mental Health FGIP 1999-2007 and has visited Ukraine 2016 and 2017 with focus on deinstitutionalization and community support. Since Russia attacked Ukraine 2022 this work temporarily focusses on survival: food, medicines, generators and diesel. Lars-Olof Ljungberg has written reports on the history of deinstitutionalization in Scandinavia, and was 1998-1999 Project Manager for translations of literature about Recovery and Psychiatric Rehabilitation from Boston University into, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian.