The jury for the Raoul Wallenberg Award will now be led by a new chair, Sven Hagströmer. The jury’s task is to select the 2023 recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg Award, which is presented to an individual in Sweden who works for equal human value and is awarded by the Raoul Wallenberg Academy.
Sven Hagströmer has a background in finance as the founder and chairman of Avanza and Creades, while also maintaining a strong commitment to social causes. He is a relative of Raoul Wallenberg and was one of the co-founders of the Raoul Wallenberg Academy in 2001. He now steps into the role as the new chair of the award jury.
“I am very proud of this new role. At the same time, it is a responsibility to, together with a highly competent jury, identify and honor role models who act in Raoul’s spirit,” says Sven Hagströmer about what the assignment means to him.
The nomination period for submitting candidates for the Raoul Wallenberg Award is open to the public until the end of February. After that, the jury process begins, led by Sven Hagströmer, who together with the other jury members will select the 2023 award recipient.
“Raoul was our hero. The award was established to recognize individual efforts made in Raoul’s spirit. Not everyone can do what Raoul did, but everyone can do something—and through the collective efforts of many acting in his spirit, we can create a better society together,” says Sven Hagströmer about the significance of the award.
Members of the Raoul Wallenberg Award Jury
Anna Urombi, Secretary General, Raoul Wallenberg Academy
Aron Verständig, Lawyer and former Chair of the Jewish Community of Stockholm
Barbro Westerholm, Former Member of Parliament
Christer Mattsson, Senior Lecturer, Segerstedt Institute
Maxida Märak, Artist and Indigenous rights activist
Silvia Ernhagen, Head of Communications, Forum for Living History
Sven Hagströmer, Board Member, Raoul Wallenberg Academy
Trifa Shakely, President, RFSL
About the Award
The Raoul Wallenberg Award has been made possible through support from the Swedish government. In addition to the prize sum of SEK 100,000, the recipient will receive a miniature version of the bronze briefcase created by artists Ulla and Gustav Kraitz, which is part of the memorials to Raoul Wallenberg located outside the United Nations in New York and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm.