Ragnar Berthing is the managing director and head of international promotion at Musikcentrum Öst/Sweden, a non-profit multi-genre agency and network for freelance musicians and bands under support of The Swedish Arts Council. He is the co-founder of the global gender balance initiative Keychange and co-lead of the present edition 2019-2024. Keychange is a collaboration of 12 countries and the project covers three areas — career development project for female and non-binary artists, a pledge initiative for balanced programming and structures in festivals, music companies and organizations, and a campaign for political and structural gender balance in the global music industry. Kechange is adapting an intersectional perspective in their work and from the core, a lot of the work goes beyond gender.

Musikcentrum Öst is also the organizer of a residency for refugee Ukrainian artists and composers in Stockholm.

Background as club organizer and musician from early eighties and on. BA in film studies followed by 20 years at The Swedish Film Institute, running distribution funds, head of cinema distribution and programming, acquisition of rights and project management. One of the founders of Sound of Stockholm, a festival for avant-garde and experimental music that both has been awarded the most gender equal festival in Northern Europe by KVAST, society of female composers of Sweden.