She graduated in 1995 from the Institute for International Education after study at London South Bank University and the Paris Chamber of Commerce, and in 2000 graduated from the American University in Paris after studying International Corporate Communications, Art History, Cities: Architecture and Urban Culture, and European Cultural Studies.
She also founded the Edelstam Institute of Education for Human Rights and International Affair of which she is the Executive Director. During 2014, Edelstam was the Director of Fundraising at Ersta diakoni. From 2009 to 2011, Edelstam was the Secretary General for the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) in Sweden.
Before that she worked as a consultant for Burson-Marsteller.
Foreign her work at AMREF, the Swedish business magazine CSR i Praktiken ranked Edelstam among the 100 individuals likely to have the most influence on organisations in the business, service and non-profit sectors during 2011. Edelstam lives in Stockholm.
