Cecilia Wallin

Cecilia Wallin spent 20 years in Swedish and international law enforcement investigating child sexual exploitation and identifying its victims, before founding Onemi-Global Solutions to bring that expertise to governments, industry and law enforcement agencies worldwide.

 

She joined the Swedish Police Authority in 2005 while completing her Master of Laws at Uppsala University, where she wrote her thesis on assessing the age of children depicted in child sexual exploitation material while undertaking her practical placement with Uppsala Police. It was during this thesis work that she discovered child sexual exploitation cases were being deprioritised within the force, a finding that led her to help establish the region's first dedicated investigative position for them, which she then went on to hold for six years. During this time, she became one of the first investigators to test and use what would become Griffeye Analyze (then NetClean Analyse), contributing to its early development, and she still works with its founder on new projects today. One case from that period, involving 63 identified victims, was later cited nationally as a benchmark for investigative practice.

 

In 2012 she moved to Stockholm as an Intelligence Case Officer with the Swedish Cyber Crime Centre, coordinating national and international investigations and building Sweden's training curriculum for victim identification. During this time, she played a key role in Operation Atelier, a European joint investigation into exploitation through photo studios that led to victim identification and offender arrests across the continent.

 

Between 2015 and 2019, Cecilia served as a Criminal Intelligence Officer with INTERPOL's Crimes Against Children unit, working from Lyon, Bangkok and Singapore. Beyond her victim identification work, she analysed capability and training needs across Asian countries to avoid duplicated efforts and ensure regional programs were coordinated rather than repeated. She also administered and trained users on the International Child Sexual Exploitation database, co-developed INTERPOL and Europol's advanced victim identification curriculum, and led Operation Blackwrist, a two-year multi-agency operation that identified hundreds of victims globally. Her work was recognised with the Australian Federal Police's Commissioner's Group Citation for Conspicuous Conduct.

 

Since 2020, Cecilia has consulted for organisations including the Australian eSafety Commissioner, the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation, Project VIC/Katalyst and the UNODC, delivering training across Europe, Asia and South America. Through Onemi-Global, her work now spans victim identification training, capability assessments and task forces, as well as partnering with software companies to strengthen the tools investigators rely on in CSEM cases.

 

"Sharing is caring" has guided Cecilia's work from her earliest days in Uppsala to her international career today. It's the belief that knowledge, experience and collaboration across borders save children faster than any agency can alone, and it's what keeps her doing this work.