Astrid Söderbergh Widding
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Professor Astrid Söderbergh Widding | |
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.jpg) Widding at 2024 Nobel Week | |
| Born | 27 May 1963 |
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| Institutions | Stockholm University |
Astrid Naemi Söderbergh Widding (born 27 May 1963) is a Swedish film studies scholar. She is professor of cinema studies and was rector (i.e. vice-chancellor) of Stockholm University between 2013 and 2025. Söderbergh Widding is a former board member of the Swedish Film Institute, a former president of the board of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, and a former columnist in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. She earned her PhD in 1992 at Stockholm University with a dissertation on Andrei Tarkovsky. She was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2014 and became a Knight of the French Legion of Honour in 2015.[1][2]
In 2023, she was appointed chair of the board of directors of the Nobel Foundation.[3] Since 2025, she is Executive Director of the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation and the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation. In May 2025, she held a Resident Fellowship at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.[4]
