Board
Karin Röding
Chair of the Board
Former Director General, Swedish Council for Higher Education
Katarina Leppänen
Vice-Chair of the Board and member of the research committee
Professor of History of Ideas/Intellectual History, University of Gothenburg
Lars-Erik Edlund
Board member
Professor of Nordic Languages, Umeå University
Anders Ljunggren
Board member
Former Ambassador
Anna Malm Bernsten
Board member and member of the investment committee
Senior Consultant
Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen
Board member
Professor of Sociology, Uppsala University
Stefan Nyström
Board member and member of the investment committee
Head of Department, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Linda Ryan Bengtsson
Board member
Assistant Professor of Media and Communication Studies, Karlstad University
Göran von Sydow
Board member
Director, SIEPS (The Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies)
Appointment of the Board
The Board is appointed by the Government (two members) and by the Board itself (seven members). The proposal for members of the Board (six members) is submitted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the higher education institutions and the heads of the following Swedish agencies: the Swedish Research Council; the Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte); the Research Council for the Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas); and Sweden’s Innovation Agency (Vinnova). One member is proposed by the Board itself.
The mandate period is from 1st July 2022 until 30th June 2025.