Alexandra Pascalidou (born July 17, 1970 in Bucharest, Romania by Greek parents) is a Swedish journalist, television hostess and author. She is also a frequent lecturer, discussion leader and human rights activist.
Alexandra became known to the public in 1995 when she started hosting the multicultural TV-show Mosaik in SVT, one of Sweden’s Public Service-channels.
Between 2000-2001 Alexandra hosted "Som sagt" in SVT, a Saturday night-program that had its focus on literature and language questions. At the same time, she was the producer and reporter for the TV-show "Striptease" that focused on investigative journalism.
In 2004 Alexandra hosted the Olympics in Athens for SVT and thereafter she lived in Greece for two years where she hosted various TV-shows. For example Friday night entertainment in ERT where she spent a whole day with Roberto Cavalli, Isabel Allende and Roger Moore among others. Alexandra was also hosting Greek morning television every day with three hours of live coverage each episode. She also was hostess for the Eurovision Song Contest in Greece in 2005, and commentator in Kiev the year when Greece won the competition for the first time. In the same year Alexandra hosted Melodifestivalen in Sweden from Gothenburg.
In January 2007 she became one of five hostesses of TV4's Förkväll,[1] a daytime lifestyle.
She participated in the show Pokermiljonen in TV4 and has been hostess for a series of charity galas in SVT, for example "På flykt” with Kjell Lönnå and “Uppesittarkväll” with Anders Lundin.
Alexandra is a [2] and freelance writer in newspapers such as GP, Metro and Expressen. She blogs continually on Metrobloggen and she gives lectures on diversity and the media, democracy and justice issues, rhetoric and leadership, gender and cultural competence.
Alexandra has also served on the Board of BRIS (Children's right in society) and the board of kvinnojouren Terrafem working with women’s rights against men’s violence. She is involved in women's health and is a member of the 2.6 miljoner klubben and she is a mom's ambassador to RFSUs campaign. Alexandra sits on the board of the foundation Läxhjälpen which helps young people in troubled areas with their homework to help them get access to secondary education.
Alexandra was in the mid-1990s along with Michael Alonzo, Dogge Doggelito and Cissi Elwin prominent figures in the Swedish part of Europarådets anti-racism campaign "All Different All Equal" as in Sweden also went under the working title "Youth against Racism”(UMR).
Alexandras work against racism and for human rights has led to that she over the years has been exposed to hundreds of death threats. But she continues her lectures on human rights and operates a number of charity projects for children in Sweden's suburbs. Alexandra herself has said that "I have had all the obstacles you may have to be successful- wog, woman, child of divorce, from a suburban neglected working class".
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