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Boards: Board of directors | Scientific advisory board
Board of directors
Björn Hägglund (Chairman)
Björn Andrén
Prof. Göran Bengtsson
Olof Johansson
Alice Kempe
Elisabet Salander Björklund
Prof. Ove Nilsson
Prof. Mathias Uhlén
Sune Wännström
Björn Hägglund(Chairman)
Björn Hägglund is former CEO of STORA and deputy CEO of Stora Enso. He is Dr in forestry (1972) and former professor in forest inventory. He is chairman of the boards of WWF Sweden and Research Institute of Industrial Economics. He is member of the boards of Alfa Laval, Bergvik Skog, Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse and MISTRA.
Björn Andrén
Björn Andrén is CEO of Holmen Skog AB. He is chairman of the Forest Committee at the Swedish Forest Industries Association, member of the board at SkogForsk, Wood Center North at Luleå Technical University, the Faculty of Forest at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and the Faculty of Nature Resources and Agriculture at SLU.
Prof. Göran Bengtsson
Göran Bengtsson is chemical engineer and Ph. D. in cellulose technology from Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. His present position is as the Director, Group Research Programme, in the R&D Group at Stora Enso AB. Göran has worked in Stora Enso since 1989 in different R&D positions. He is also Associate Professor in pulp and paper technology at University of Karlstad.
Olof Johansson
Olof Johansson is Vice President and Director of Environment at Sveaskog AB. He has a degree in Biology with emphasis on Plant Ecology. He is former chairman of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and currently chairman of Forest Trends and member of the board of FSC Global Fund.
Alice Kempe
Alice has a M. Sc. in Forestry. She is a member of the board of the Kempe Foundations.
Elisabet Salander Björklund
Elisabet Salander Björklund is CEO of Bergvik Skog AB. She has a M.Sc. in Forestry and member of the BOD in Mistra and Marcus Wallenberg Prize Foundation. She is a member of KSLA and IVA.
Prof. Ove Nilsson
Ove Nilsson is a plant molecular biologist and is Professor in Plant Reproductive Biology at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU, Umeå. Nilsson is heading the National Swedish Program for Plant Development funded by the Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) as well as the "UPSC Centre for Forest Biotechnology" which in 2006 was selected as one of four Berzelii centers to receive 10 years of support from the Swedish Research Council (VR) and the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA). His research area is the control of flowering, with a special emphasis on the genes controlling flowering time in trees. Applications of this research involve the development of early flowering trees as a tool for conventional breeding. It also involves the development of non-flowering trees as an enabling technology for future plantations of genetically modified trees, core areas for STT.
Prof. Mathias Uhlén
Mathias Uhlén is Professor of Microbiology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Prof Uhlén is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science (IVA) and he is also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. Prof. He is a Board member of Atlas Antibodies AB, Bure AB, KTH Holding AB, Nordiag AS and Novozymes AS.
Sune Wännström
Sune Wännström is since 2006 Director of Research at SEKAB E-Technology. Before joining SEKAB he has more than 20 years of experiences from pulp and paper R&D in MoDo and M-real in various managing positions. He has a MSc in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Organic Chemistry/ Wood Chemistry from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
He is a member of the board of e.g. Vinnova, Processum Biorefinery Initiative AB and MoRe Research AB.
Scientific Advisory Board
SweTree Technologies' Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) ensures that research is performed with the highest quality standards when handling the innovations before and during the patent process. SAB consists of senior researchers among the Woodheads members. Depending on the expertice needed the whole width of the knowledge of the Woodheads members is used.
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