Tord Björk was re-elected as an IPB Council member in October 2025, after serving a first term from 2022. He represents Artists for Peace in the Nordic Peace Alliance coordination group and is the coordinator of the working group on Helsinki+50, a role he has held since 2024.
Tord has been active inte the environmental, peace and solidarity movement at international, national and local level since 1971. This includes protesting against ecocide in Vietnam and organizing other alternative activities during the first UN Cionference on Envirionment in 1972, becoming active in the local Swedish Peace and Arbritation Society in Nacka 1974 and the local conservation society as well as becoming one of the founders of the anti nuclear power movement in Stockholm the same year, in 1977 founder of Peoples campaign against Atomic power which later changed name into Peoples campaign against nuclear power and nuclear weapons (Folkkampanjen mot kärnkraft-kärnvapen).
Since 1981, he has been elected to different national positions as a board member and in various committees within the Environmental Federation, today known as Friends of the Earth Sweden. In 2008, Tord became an international coordinator for the European Social Forum in Malmö, and has been active in the World Social Forum movement since then.
Beginning in 2010, Tord has organized conferences on agriculture and forestry with small farmers, Friends of the Earth Sweden, and solidarity groups. He represents Artists for Peace in the Nordic Peace Alliance coordination group and is the coordinator of the working group on Helsinki+50, a role he has held since 2024.
