Helen Åkerman is the coordinator of the plenary sessions at the annual conference and of the church board in the Uniting Church in Sweden. One of her main work fields is to develop the democracy in the plenary sessions. She is also the one to talk to about confirmation and what the church can do to try to prevent sexual abuse within its walls.

Helen Åkerman is a teacher, trained at the Stockholm Institute of Education and has studied religious education at the Stockholm School of Theology. She has also taken part in the translation to Swedish of Will there be faith? A New Vision for Educating and Growing Disciples by Thomas H. Groome.