Previous honorary doctors at Stockholm University

Law

2025: Mats Melin

2024: Phoebe Okowa

2023: Birke Häcker

2022*: Lars Hörngren

2019: Johan Eriksson

2018: Lena ten Hoopen

2017: André Andersson

2016: Ellen Hey

2015: Johan Gernandt

2014: Eleanor Sharpston

2013: Lennart Aspegren

2012: David B. Wilkins
Annette Kur

2011: Bo Kjellén
Dinah L. Shelton

2010: Elisabeth Fura

2009: Okko Behrends
Thomas Hammarberg

2008: Peter Wallenberg
Dan Frände

2007: Mikael Mellqvist
Frederik Zimmer

2006: Richard A. Falk
Silvana Sciarra

2005: Kåre Lilleholt
Alan Watson

2004: Sigvard Jarvin
Hans-Gunnar Solerud

2003: Jan Schröder

2002: Kerstin Ahlberg
Jürgen Basedow

2001: Henry Olsson
Joseph Norton

2000: Niklas Bruun

1999: Leif Sevón
Eric Östberg

1998: Gunnar Nord
Leif Thorsson

1997: Hans Corell
Jon Bing

1996: Karin Cornils
Sven Norberg

1995: Bengt Bergendal
Lord Wedderburn of Charlton

1994: Hugh Ault
Mogens Koktvedgaard
Erling Selvig

Humanities

2025: Patrizia Calefato
Åsa Simma

2024: Magnus Florin

2023: Richard Dyer
Susanne Ljung

2022*: Jane Gaines
Tobias Svanelid

2019: Eva Dahlman
Kajsa Öberg Lindsten

2018: Nora Berend
Stina Ekblad
Ilga Zagorska

2017: Susan Faludi
Ansgar Nünning
Lilian Thuram

2016: Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij
Marcia Landy
Mario Vargas Llosa

2015: Göran Elgemyr

2014: Elaine Aston
Patricia K. Kuhl
Francois Recanati

2013: Tom Moring

2012: Marjatta Hietala
Milton Núñez

2011: David Neuman
Beverley Skeggs

2010: Professor Peter Clark
Fil.mag. Catharina Grünbaum
Författare Ulf Stark

2009: Cecilia Lindqvist
Michael Long

2008: Benny Andersson
Boris Gasparov

2007: Susan Foster
Michael Metzeltin

2006: Robert Israel
Lena Rangström

2005: Margaretha Klockhoff
José Saramago

2004: Anders Bodegård
Heidi von Born
Heikki Paunonen

2003: Dagfinn Føllesdal
Seamus Heaney
Gun-Britt Sundström

2002: Olle Granath
Roy Andrew Miller

2001: Michael Holquist
Brita af Geijerstam
Arne Ruth

2000: Galina Aleksandrovna Zolotova
Bengt af Klintberg

1999: Herbert Blume
Donald Davidson
Per I. Gedin
Birgit Åkesson

1998: Lars Cleve
Tom Gunning
Povel Ramel
Bo Svensén

1997: Lars Erik Blomqvist
Andrée Borillo
Erland Josephson
Rolf Söderberg

1996: Nils Björkenstam
Rune Helleday

1995: Bergljot Krohn Bucht
Per Wästberg

1994: Jan Hedin
Harry Schein
Bo Sommarström

Social Sciences

2025: Philippe Aghion
Gita Mishra

2024: Katja Franko

2023: Jim Albrecht
Janet Gornick

2022*: Yuto Kitamura
Ann Åberg

2019: Axel van den Berg
Elizabeth Churchill

2018: Susan Sandall

2017: Dorothy Sue Cobble

2016: Samuel L. Odom
Phillip R. Shaver

2015: Margaret-Ellen Pipe
William E. Doolittle

2014: Sandra Wallman
Marie-Laure Djelic

2013: Frances Goldscheider
Lawrence W. Sherman
Bruce E. Wampold

2012: Keith Banting

2011: Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Miriam Glucksmann
Thomas H. Ollendick

2010: Sir Michael Marmot
Ludvig Rasmusson
Kirsten Simonsen
Mats Svegfors

2009: Daniel N. Stern

2008: Timothy M. Smeeding

2007: William M. Adams

2006: Gary W. Evans

2005: Larry Percy
Tom Snijders
Tapani Valkonen
Kay Warren

2004: Robert C. Bogdan
Nils Christie
Walter Müller
Samuel Strandberg

2003: Thomas D. Borkovec
Hédi Fried
Harald Klingemann

2002: Raoul Hasselgren
Helga Hernes

2001: Shirley Brice Heath

2000: Michael Banton
Ian I. Mitroff

1999: Barney Glaser
Leif Holgersson
Bengt Lindqvist

1998: Jon Elster
Birgit Hansson
Philip Kotler
Kjell Öberg

1997: Charles E. Lindblom
Olle Halldén

1996: Amartya Sen
Mark Granovetter

1995: Robert Cairns
Paulo Freire
William H. Starbuck

1994: Martin Carnoy
Eva Hedlund
Lawrence Marks

Science

2025: Thomas von Heijne

2024: Zhaojun Bai
Camille Parmesan
Matthias Tschöp

2023: Ian Brooks
Jan Ellenberg
Peter Sarnak
Janet M. Thornton

2022*: Karen Kohfeld
Fernando Martín
Joanna Rose
John Rubinstein

2019: Nora Underwood
Frances Westley

2018: Sergio Albeverio
Roland Beckmann
Rita Colwell
Ulrike Lohmann

2017: Elena Aprile
Johan Kuylenstierna
Magdalena Titirici
Gerard van der Geer

2016: Philip D. Jones
Xiaowey Zhuang

2015: Jonathan Martin Harbor
Heinz Langer
Raymond Pierrehumbert
Sandra L. Schmid

2014: Maria João Ramos
Lynne B. McCusker
Walter Neupert
Thomas Rossby

2013: Frances H. Arnold
Jón Egill Kristjánsson
Öystein Hov
Peter Jenni
Mattias Klum

2012: Ray Dixon
Katherine Freese
Lars Granath
Isabella Raffi

2011: Markus Antonietti
Claes Grundsten
Sandra Knapp

2010: Alison Berry
Victoria Dyring
William Steffen
Peter Wolynes

2009: Paulo Artaxo
János Mink
James Whelan

2008: Karin Bojs
Norman Lederman
David Nygren
Stephen White

2007: Johannes Oerlemans

2006: Robert B. Gennis
Roger J. Summers

2005: Daniel R Brooks
Bernard Golding
Markku Kulmala
Deborah A Mclennan

2004: Lennart Crona
Zeev Luz
Jurgenne Honculada Primavera
Anna Schytt

2003: Andrew Matus
Ewa Swiezewska

2002: Helgi Björnsson
Sören Brunak
John Pohlman
Bengt Sjöstrand

2001: Edward J. Carpenter
Domenico Rio
Rubinstein
Arndt Simon

2000: Robert Costanza
Elisabeth Kessler
Paul Mayewski
Gottfried Schatz

1999: Josef Houstek
Larry A. Mayer
Ross Norstrom
Linus Torvalds

1998: Ivano Bertini
James Holton
Itzhak Ohad
David Sugden

1997: Sheldon Datz
Donald G. Patterson
Nicholas J. Shacleton
Johannes F.G. Vliegenhart

1996: Anna-Greta Dyring
Hermona Soreq
Larry Lambe
Daniel Treill

1995: Gunilla Brattberg
George H. Denton
Paul W. Ludden

1994: Jean-Pierre Changeux
Hans Frauenfelder

*Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no honorary doctors were appointed at Stockholm University in 2021. The honorary doctors appointed in 2020 were conferred in 2022.