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

 Chairman
 Director-general

 Maria Knutson Wedel

 Vice-Chancellor
 rektor@slu.se

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

Annika Nordgren Christensen

Advisor

Eva Pettersson

Former Managing Director

Ritva Toivonen

Professor, Helsinki university

Representatives elected by teaching staff and researchers

Lotta Berg

Professor
Department of Animal Environment and Health, SLU
lotta.berg@slu.se

Ishi Buffam

Senior Lecturer
Department of Landscape Architecture, SLU
ishi.buffam@slu.se

Göran Spong

Senior Lecturer
Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, SLU
goran.spong@slu.se

Representatives elected by the student unions

Jens Mårtensson

Chair Sluss, joint Committee of Student Unions at SLU
jens.martensson@slu.se

Ida Segesten

Joint Committe of Student Unions at SLU
ida.segesten@slu.se

Adrien Kroese

Doctoral student
adrien.kroese@slu.se

Union representatives

Maja Reizenstein

Saco
Research assistant
SACO.maja@slu.se

Roger Andersson

Director of Doctoral Studies
ST
roger.andersson@slu.se

Secretary to the SLU Board

Patrik Spånning Westerlund

Archivist
patrik.spanning.westerlund@slu.se

Additional representatives with the right to be present

Pär Forslund
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
par.forslund@slu.se

Martin Melkersson
Chief Operating Officer
martin.melkersson@slu.se

Inga Astorsdotter
Head of Internal Audit
inga.astorsdotter@slu.se