Boström, Gustaf
FD h.c, Prime Minister; 1900–1907

Wachtmeister, Fredrik
Count, FD h.c, JD h.c, Chancellor of the Swedish Universities, Foreign Minister; 1907–1918

Schück, Henrik
FD, TD h.c, Professor of History of Literature, President of Uppsala University, Member of the Swedish Academy; 1918–1929

Hammarskjöld, Hjalmar
JD h.c, FD h.c, Governor, Prime Minister, Member of the Swedish Academy; 1929–1947

Ekeberg, Birger
JD, FD h.c, Marshal of the Realm, Cabinet Minister, Member of the Swedish Academy; 1947–1960

Tiselius, Arne
FD, MD h.c, Professor of Biochemistry at Uppsala University, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1948; 1960–1964

Lindblad, Bertil
FD, Professor, Astronomer of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1965

von Euler, Ulf
MD, Professor of Physiology at Karolinska Institutet, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1970; 1965–1975

Bergström, Sune
MD, Professor of Chemistry at Karolinska Institutet, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1982; 1975–1987

Gyllensten, Lars
MD, Professor, Writer, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; 1987–1993

Samuelsson, Bengt
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1982, b. 1934; 1993–2005

Storch, Marcus
MD h.c., Former President and Chief Executive Officer of AGA AB; 2005–2013

Carl-Henrik Heldin
Professor in Molecular Cell Biology at Uppsala University; 2013–2023

Previous Executive Directors

Santesson, Henrik
JK, Assistant Circuit Judge; 1900–1912

Sederholm, Henrik
JK, Assistant Circuit Judge; 1913–1929

Sohlman, Ragnar
Executor of Nobel’s Last Will, Assistant Under-Secretary of the National Board of Trade; 1929–1946

Hammarskiöld, Sven
JK, Justice of Appeal; 1946–1948

Ståhle, Nils K
JK, JD h.c, Envoy; 1948–1972

Ramel, Stig
Baron, JPM, MD h.c, JD h.c, FD h.c; 1972–1992

Sohlman, Michael
FK; 1992–2011

Heikensten, Lars
Dr; 2011–2021

Vidar Helgesen
Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC/UNESCO) and Assistant Director-General of UNESCO; 2021–2024