Council members

Lars Heikensten

Chairman

PhD in economics. Previously chief economist of the Swedish National Debt Office, head of department at the Ministry of Finance and chief economist of Handelsbanken. He was between 1995 and 2003 deputy governor of the Swedish Central Bank and governor of the Swedish Central Bank between 2003 and 2006. Between 2006 and 2011 he was the Swedish member of the European Court of Auditors in Luxembourg. From 2011 to 2020 he was the executive director of the Nobel Foundation.

Annika Sundén

Deputy Chair

Associate Professor of Economics. Has worked on a broad range of topics, including social insurance and the labour market. She has held leading positions within the Swedish Public Employment Service, Sida, the Swedish Pensions Agency and the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.

Runar Brännlund

Member

Professor Emeritus of Economics at Umeå University. His research mainly focuses on issues relating to energy, the environment and natural resources.

Karin Edmark

Member

Associate Professor in Economics and active at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University. Her research mainly revolves around issues relating to the labour market and the education system.

Tuulia Hakola-Uusitalo

Member

Research director at VATT (State Economic Research Center) in Finland, has previously been head of the Competition and Consumer Authority and has worked at the Finnish Ministry of Finance. Hakola-Uusitalos' research has dealt with, among other things, pension systems and impact assessments within the state administration.

Jesper Roine

Member

Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research focuses primarily on economic inequality, but he has also published work in areas such as political economy, public economics and economic development.