[1][2][3][4][5][6] She also founded the Edelstam Institute of Education for Human Rights and International Affairs of which she is the Executive Director.
She graduated in 1995 from the Institutet för Internationell Utbildning after study at London South Bank University and the Paris Chamber of Commerce, and in 2000 graduated from the American University in Paris after studying International Corporate Communications, Art History, Cities: Architecture and Urban Culture, and European Cultural Studies.
[7] From 2009 to 2011, Edelstam was the Secretary General for the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) in Sweden.
[10] She has also worked for a number of non-profit organizations, including the Salvation Army, the Swedish Microcredit Foundation and Min Stora Dag, and from 2008 to 2010 was a member of the editorial board for the magazine of the Swedish Fundraising Council, Giva Sverige.
[11] Edelstam was nominated to the Martin Luther King-Priset in 2013[12] and awarded the Condor Prize in 2012 as the "Swede of the Year", within the category "Institutional Work".