The SLU Board

There are 15 members of the SLU Board. Eight members, including the chair, are appointed by the Government, three are elected by SLU teaching staff and researchers, and three by SLU student unions, Sluss. Naturally, the vice-chancellor is a member.

The term of office for the members appointed by the Government runs from 1 October 2024 to 30 April 2028. The term of office for those elected by SLU teaching staff and researchers runs until 30 April 2026. The periods differ as the Government shortened the standard term of office down to 17 months instead of three years for the new board that convened on 1 May 2023. The members who were elected to the board by SLU teaching staff and researchers had already been selected for the standard three-year period when the Government issued their decision.

The Joint Committee of Student Unions at SLU nominate three members, generally for a two-year period and independent of other terms of office.

Chair and vice-chancellor

Joakim Stymne, chair
Director-general at Statistics Sweden

Maria Knutson Wedel
Vice-Chancellor at SLU

Secretary to the SLU Board

Patrik Spånning Westerlund
Archivist

Members appointed by the Swedish government

Per Cramér
Professor
Gothenburg School of Economics

Lennart Wikström
Editor-in-chief

Hans Antonsson
Former Managing Director

Karin Forsberg Nilsson
Professor at Uppsala university

Annika Nordgren Christensen
Advisor

Eva Pettersson
Former Managing Director

Ritva Toivonen
Professor, Helsinki university

Representatives elected by teaching staff and researchers

Lotta Berg
Professor at the Department of Animal Environment and Health, SLU

Ishi Buffam
Senior lecturer at the Department of Landscape Architecture, SLU

Göran Spong
Senior lecturer at the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, SLU

Representatives elected by the student unions

Tova Franzén
Chair Sluss (joint Committee of Student Unions at SLU)

Jens Mårtensson
Sluss

Emma Bromark
Doctoral student

Union representatives

Maja Reizenstein
Saco, Research assistant

Roger Andersson
ST, Director of Doctoral Studies

Additional representatives with the right to be present

Pär Forslund
Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Martin Melkersson
Chief Operating Officer

Inga Astorsdotter
Head of Internal Audit