After six years as Chief Executive Officer of Nobel Media AB, Mattias Fyrenius has reached an agreement with the Board of Nobel Media that he will be leaving his position.

“I would like to thank Mattias Fyrenius for his successful work at Nobel Media over the past six years. The company’s public activities have grown significantly in size and today they are stable and financially strong, the latter very much thanks to well-functioning collaboration with international partners. Nobel Media’s events focusing on crucial issues for humankind regularly attract a large and engaged audience all over the world − in recent years, for example, in Japan, India, Brazil, the United States and Germany. Today the Nobel Prize also has nearly five million followers on social media. Nobel Media is one of several Nobel Prize-related public entities, and our future ambition is to increase cooperation among the various activities that are tasked with providing information about the Nobel Prize and generating public engagement about science, research, education and humanism,” says Lars Heikensten, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation and Chairman of the Board of Nobel Media AB.

“These have been six very enjoyable years, and I wish both Nobel Media and the Nobel organisations generally the best for the future. I am very proud about what we have achieved during these years, but it has become clear that we have somewhat different views on how our activities should be run, so it feels obvious and easy to go our separate ways by mutual agreement,” says Mattias Fyrenius.

Laura Sprechmann, Deputy CEO of Nobel Media, will assume the role of Acting CEO starting on January 26, 2019.

Since the mid-1990s, broad activities have been built up around the Nobel Prize in order to provide information about Alfred Nobel and the contributions of the Nobel Laureates for the greatest benefit to humankind. Nobel Media AB is one of several entities in this organisation. Today these Nobel Prize-related public activities include museums in Stockholm and Oslo, international meeting and exhibition programmes, school and educational activities, TV productions, concerts and an extensive digital presence.