Astrid Söderbergh Widding

Astrid Naemi Söderbergh Widding (born 27 May 1963) is a Swedish film studies scholar. She is professor of film studies and rector (i.e. vice-chancellor) of Stockholm University since 2013. Söderbergh Widding is a board member of the Swedish Film Institute, a former president of the board of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, and a 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.

In 2023, she was appointed chair of the board of directors of the Nobel Foundation. She is a member of the Catholic Church and a third-order Dominican. Provided by Wikipedia