Karolina Ekholm (18 October 1964, Täby) is a Swedish economist who since 15 March 2009 is one of five supervisors at Riksbanken, Sweden´s central bank. She obtained a PhD in 1995 from the Department of Economics at Lund University. As a researcher she has focused mainly on the effects of globalisation. Since 1 April 2010 she is also Professor at .