Background
Cecilia Uddén was born in Hägersten, Stockholm, the oldest daughter of Per Olov Edvin Uddén and Sigrid Chatarina Öhlén-Johannsen.
Cecilia Uddén was born in Hägersten, Stockholm, the oldest daughter of Per Olov Edvin Uddén and Sigrid Chatarina Öhlén-Johannsen.
Uddén attended Norra Latins Gymnasiun in Stockholm and studied philosophy at Stockholm University. She also studied journalism at Skurups folkhögskola in Skurup, Sweden.
Uddén has worked as a radio foreign correspondent to the Middle East since 1993. During her younger years, her family also spent time in Cairo, Egypt and Bangkok, Thailand. Uddén is married to Otto Manheimer, a cultural journalist and translator.
The couple has two children.
In 1988, Uddén started working in Sveriges Radio"s culture department. Between 1993 and 1998, she was a foreign correspondent to the Middle East and was based in Cairo and Jerusalem.
Between 1998 and 2003, she was the foreign correspondent to Washington for Sveriges Radio. In 2004, she started hosting the radio show Konflikt which was broadcast between 2004 and 2005.
She worked as a foreign correspondent based in Amman from 2006 and 2011.
During the 2004 American presidential election, Uddén was criticised for making an evaluative statement about one of the candidates on Sveriges Radio. The comment was seen as a breach of impartiality, leading to the suspension of Uddén from election coverage. Uddén was criticized in December 2011 by Peter Wolodarski in Dagens Nyheter after she posed for a photo with two salafists she had interviewed.