Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Anna Sjöström Douagi is Acting CEO of the Nobel Foundation

29 February 2024

Anna Sjöström Douagi is Acting CEO of the Nobel Foundation from 1 March 2024. Since last year she has had a role as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at the Nobel Foundation. The process appointing a new Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation is ongoing and will be communicated later this spring.

Most recently Anna Sjöström Douagi served as the Executive Director of the Nobel Prize Summit, last convened in May 2023 in Washington D.C, in collaboration with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences among others. Prior to joining the Nobel sphere in 2016, she was the founder and inaugural CEO of the Young Academy of Sweden, a platform for some of the most talented young researchers in Sweden within all fields on the initiative of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Anna Sjöström Douagi holds a PhD in Immunology from the Karolinska Institutet and is an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. She was awarded the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Republic for her distinguished services to science, and serves in several boards and committees both nationally and internationally.

The former Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation, Vidar Helgesen, will become the Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and Assistant Director-General of UNESCO. He will take up his new position on 1 March 2024. 

 

Anna Sjöström Douagi
Anna Sjöström Douagi. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Clément Morin.
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