Karima Makrof is the Founder and Chief Adviser at AKLYON Consulting and Senior Manager, Data Governance at PwC Sweden, within the Chief Data Office. With more than 20 years of international experience across industries and countries, she works at the intersection of data governance, organisational accountability and decision-making, helping organisations move from having data to being able to act on it with confidence.
Her experience spans financial services, technology, manufacturing, automotive and professional services, including leadership roles with global organisations such as Volvo Group, Oracle, SKF, ESAB, Volvo Cars and Swedbank. This breadth gives her a perspective on how data challenges evolve as organisations, technologies and expectations change.
Today, her work focuses on the gap between governance as it is designed and how it functions in practice, taking a pragmatic approach to accountability, ownership, decision authority and how governance becomes part of the way an organisation operates.
Karima is a regular stage moderator at the Data Innovation Summit and Data 2030 Summit and speaks internationally on data governance, data leadership and responsible AI, bringing a practitioner’s perspective to questions often treated as primarily technical or procedural.
She is the author of The Confidence to Act: 30 Reflections on Data Governance – What Breaks and What Holds?, drawing on over two decades of experience to explore why governance falls short in practice and what enables organisations to act with confidence.
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