Board of directors

The Nobel Foundation

Regular members

Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Professor, chair

Hanna Stjärne, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Professor, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

Ingrid Carlberg, Author, incoming Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy

Ellen Moons, Professor, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Sven Nyman, MSc, Hon. Doctor of Business

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

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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