Marie Tsujita Stephenson joined the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness in September 2006 as administrator to assist Professor Örjan Sölvell and Dr Christian Ketels on their EU project on the identification and analysis of clusters and innovation policy in Europe, the Europe INNOVA Cluster-Mapping project. Marie also manages the CSC office.

Marie has been at the Stockholm School of Economics since 1994, most recently at the European Institute of Japanese Studies as project manager responsible for seminars and conferences; she has also copyedited many of the academic publications of the institute. Marie has degrees in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and English Literature from Bryn Mawr College, and on a good day speaks five languages.