Gain insights from Professor Sylvia Schwaag Serger’s perspectives on current issues shaping our future, along with the President’s contributions to recent publications and other engagements.
Let us act together and own the future, rather than letting it own us.
Professor Sylvia Schwaag Serger
Sylvia Schwaag Serger is a Professor at Lund University, President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) since October 2024, and a fellow of IVA’s Education and Research Policy Division since 2019.
She has spent over 20 years shaping, implementing, and studying innovation policy in Europe and China. She has served as an expert on China and innovation for the European Commission, the OECD, and the World Bank, and has been a member of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven’s National Innovation Council, the Swedish Government’s Research Advisory Board, and the AI Commission. Sylvia Schwaag Serger has extensive international professional experience, including as Science and Technology Counsellor at the Swedish Embassy in Beijing. From 2018 to 2021, she was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Lund University and previously Executive Director International Strategy and Networks at Vinnova.
Currently, she serves as Chair of the Scientific Council of the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development Formas, Vice Chair of the Austrian Council for Research, Science and Innovation, a board member of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights, and a member of the expert group for the mid-term evaluation of Horizon Europe, the EU’s framework programme for research and innovation.
Sylvia Schwaag Serger holds a PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a Master’s degree in International Economics and International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University (SAIS).
