Board

Chair Johan Almenberg
Johan holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. He is director general of Finansinspektionen and has previously worked at Sveriges Riksbank, the National Institute of Economic Research, and the Ministry of Finance, most recently as state secretary for financial markets. He serves on the boards of the European Banking Authority and the international securities organization IOSCO. He is also part of the OECD steering group (bureau) for financial markets.

Deputy Chair Jonas Eliasson
Jonas is the director of access to the Transport Agency and guest professor in transport systems at Linköping University. He is also involved in transport and localisation analysis and has previously been professor of transport system analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology and traffic director in Stockholm. His research is concerned with social-economic analysis methods, transport pricing and the interaction between transport system, environment and social development

Member Karl-Oskar Lindgren
Karl-Oskar is a Professor of Political Science at Uppsala University. His research has covered areas such as political representation, labor market policies, and EU politics. Currently, Karl-Oskar is studying, among other topics, the significance of segregation for political equality in society.

Member Lena Sellgren
Lena is chief economist at Business Sweden. She holds a Licentiate of Philosophy in economics from Lund University. She also holds a civil engineering degree in urban planning. Lena has previously worked as chief analyst at Nordea Markets, head of the division for public finance analysis at the National Institute of Economic Research and at the Ministry of Finance as deputy head of the division for tax policy analysis, among other roles.

Member Patrik Söderholm
Patrik is Professor of Economics at Luleå University of Technology. His research is focused on natural resource, energy, and environmental economics. This includes work on green technological change in industry and the energy sector, and the role of policy and regulations.

Member Marie Torstensson Levander
Marie is professor in Health & Society specialising in Criminology at Malmö University. The focus of her research is to advance the understanding of the causes of crime, aiming to inform the foundation for a more effective crime prevention. Examples of research areas include criminal careers, gender differences in crime, urban crime, and fear of crime.

Member Anne Vadasz Nilsson
Anne is Director General at Kammarkollegiet. She has previously been Director General at the Swedish Energy Markets Inspectorate, for nine years. Anne has extensive experience as a civil servant and in working for well-functioning markets in the energy field as well as in competition law and economics, both in Sweden and internationally. She has been working at the Swedish Competition Authority between 2000-2013 holding different positions, among others Head of Department and Deputy Director General. Anne holds a Degree of Master of Laws from Uppsala University.

Member Robert Östling
Robert is a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. His main research interests are applied microeconomics, behavioral economics and applied game theory. For example, he has studied the effects of wealth shocks by studying Swedish lottery winners and strategic interaction between boundedly rational agents.

The experts attached to the Board are the heads of the Ministry of Finance’s Budget Department, Economic Affairs Department and Tax and Customs Department.