Executive Committee

Mistra EviEM was governed by an Executive Committee comprising environmental scientists, expert reviewers and central Swedish stakeholders in environmental affairs.

EviEMs Executive Committee. From left: Kjell Asplund, Lisa Sennerby-Forsse (chair), Henrik Smith, Eva Thörnelöf, Jerry Melillo, Katherine Richardson and Andrew Pullin.

EviEMs Executive Committee. From left: Kjell Asplund, Lisa Sennerby-Forsse (chair), Henrik Smith, Eva Thörnelöf, Jerry Melillo, Katherine Richardson and Andrew Pullin.

The Committee’s members were appointed by the Board of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in consultation with Mistra (the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research). The Executive Committee had the overall responsibility for EviEM’s work and determined subjects to be reviewed. During the final years of EviEM’s activities, the Executive Committee consisted of:

  • Lisa Sennerby Forsse (chairperson), former Vice Chancellor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
  • Kjell Asplund, Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care (SBU), Stockholm, Sweden
  • Jerry M. Melillo, Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA
  • Andrew Pullin, Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation, Bangor University, Gwynedd, UK
  • Katherine Richardson, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Henrik Smith, Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Lund University, Sweden
  • Eva Thörnelöf, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), Sweden

Earlier members of the Committee:

  • Thomas Rosswall
  • Jacob Fant