Board of directors

The Nobel Foundation

Regular members

Astrid Söderbergh Widding, chair
Professor, President of Stockholm University

Thomas Perlmann, vice chair
Professor, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet and of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine

Hanna Stjärne
Executive Director, The Nobel Foundation

Kristian Berg Harpviken
Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Peace

Hans Ellegren
Professor, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Mats Malm
Professor, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy

Sven Nyman
MSc, Hon. Doctor of Business

Deputy members

Peter Brzezinski
Professor, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry

Ulf Danielsson
Professor, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physics

 

Previous chairmen and executive directors of the Nobel Foundation

Board of directors – all entities

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