Board

Note: SASNET’s Board was dissolved on 30 September 2010, currently SASNET is working directly under the supervision of the Vice Chancellor, Lund University. 
 

Members of the Board, January 1, 2007 – September 30, 2010:

Chairperson:

• Gunnel Cederlöf, Professor, Dept. of History, Uppsala University.

Representatives for Lund University:

• Pernille Gooch, PhD, Division of Human Ecology, Dept. of European Ethnology.
• Catarina Kinnvall, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science.
• Jan Magnusson, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work (2003–2005 working at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, ACE, as Director of Studies for the Masters Programme in Asian Studies).

Deputy members:

• Staffan Lindberg, Professor, Dept. of Sociology. Director/Coordinator for SASNET till 30 June 2007. Curriculum Vitae.
• Kristina Myrvold, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History and Anthropology of Religion, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies.

Representatives for other Swedish Universities and Colleges:

• Prosun Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, Dept. of Land and Water Resources Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm.
• Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Professor, Division of Global Health (IHCAR), Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm.

(Deputy chairperson of SASNET’s board)

• Ferdinando Sardella, PhD candidate, Dept. of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, Göteborg University.

Deputy members: 

• Per Hilding, PhD, Dept. of Economic History, Stockholm University.
• Camilla Orjuela, PhD, Division of Peace and Development Research (PADRIGU), School of Global Studies, Göteborg University.
• Per Drougge, PhD candidate, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University.

Representative for students, especially PhD candidates:

• Elenor Lissel, PhD candidate, Faculty of Law, Lund University

Representative for Nordic Universities:

• Neil Webster, senior researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen, Denmark.

Deputy member: 

• Arild Engelsen Ruud, PhD, Dept. of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo, Norway.

Representative for Swedish NGOs:

• Bengt Kristiansson, former General Secretary, Swedish Committee for Afghanistan.

Deputy member:

• Eva Hägerstrand, Coordinator, Swallows India-Bangladesh Section, Lund.

All members of the board, except the representatives for students, were originally appointed by the Vice Chancellor, Lund University, for a period up till 31 December 2009. The students representatives are appointed by Lund university student unions association, for a period of one year at a time. On November 26, 2009, the Vice Chancellor, Lund University, decided to prolong the period for the current board to September 30, 2010.

See also:

• SASNET Board 2001–2003. See the organization as it was, including a nice photo from SASNET’s former root node office at Gamla Kirurgen in central Lund (as a pdf-file)
• SASNET Board 2004–2006. See the organisation up to 31 December 2006. (as a pdf-file)
• Photos from the board meeting on 29 August 2006