Björn Wittrock - Curriculum vitae#

Education

• PhD degree, Faculty of Social Sciences, Stockholm University, 1974
• MSSoc degree, Faculty of Social Sciences, Stockholm University 1968
• BSSoc, Faculty of Social Sciences, Stockholm University, 1967

Current Positions

• Vice President and Chair, Class of Social Sciences, Academia Europaea, 2018–present
• Founding Director and Permanent Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, 1985-present
• University Professor em., Uppsala University (Chair Professor, appointed by the Government of Sweden, 1999)
• Member (Personnalité qualifiée), Conseil administratif, Institut d’études avancées de Paris, 2013–present
• Member, Academic Advisory Board, Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), Accra, 2019–present
• Chair, Acdemic Advisory Board, Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study (Lichtenberg-Kolleg), University of Göttingen, 2015–present
• Member, Academic Advisory Board, Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (Max-Weber-Kolleg), University of Erfurt, 2017–present
• Member, Academic Advisory Board, Forum Transregionale Studien (FTS), Platform and consortium for the internationalisation of the social and human sciences, involving universities, research institutes and foundations in Berlin and other parts of Germany), 2014-present

Research Interests and Foci
Social and political sciences; History and sociology of the social and human sciences; Social knowledge, state structures and policy; Social thought and global history

Initiator, leader and leading participant of scholarly initiatives and programmes on a national scale (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study and Pro Futura Scientia Program for Early-career scholars); a European scale, Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study (NetIAS), (Constortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) and a Transregional or Global scale (Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC); IIS (International Institute of Sociology); SIAS: Consortium of world leading institutes for advanced study; Summer Program in Social Science (SPSS by IAS Princeton, EHESS Paris and SCAS Uppsala)

An engagement with the role of the social and human sciences in their historical contexts and in their interaction with other forms of knowledge and different governance structures.

A long-term research programme with a focus on transformations of societal macro-institutions in shifting global contexts. This programme has involved collaboration with scholars in the humanities and social sciences across the world.

Recent Professional Appointments and Commissions of Trust

• Member, Prize Committee, The Holberg Prize, 2014–2020.
• Member (2008-2014) and Chair (2011-2014), The Nils Klim Prize (the early-career Prize awarded in parallel to the Holberg Prize)
• Founding Member, Steering Committee, International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP), 2014–2017
• Principal, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), 1996-2018
• Summer Program in Social Science (SPSS): An International and Interdisciplinary Initiative for Early-Career Scholars from the Global South, 2015-2017; Initiated jointly by Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton (Didier Fassin), Ècole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris (Nancy L. Green) and SCAS (Björn Wittrock), funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and the Wolfensohn Family Foundation
• Member of the Board, European and American Young Scholars’ Summer Institutes/SIAS Summer Institutes, funded by Andrew Mellon Foundation and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2001–2015
• Member, Prize Committee, Max Planck Research Prize, 2015, Max Planck Society and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• Deputy Chair, SH-Panel for Consolidator Grants, European Research Council, 2013
• Member, Organizing Committee, 2012–2013, for the opening conference of the Lithuanian Presidency of the European Union, “Horizons for the Social Sciences and Humanities”, Vilnius, 23-24 September, 2013
• Organizer together with Professor Rajeev Bhargava (Director of CSDS, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi), 40th World Congress, IIS, “After Western Hegemony: Social Science and Its Publics”, Delhi, 16-19 February, 2012
• Member, SH-2 Panel for Starting Grants and Consolidator Grants, 2009–2013
• Member, Conseil scientifique, Réseau français des instituts d’études avancées (RFIEA), 2010-2012
• Member, Programme Committee, XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, ”Sociology on the Move”, Gothenburg, 11-17 July, 2010

Guest Professorships and Fellowships

• External Faculty Member, Collegium Budapest-Institute for Advanced Study, 2005-2008
• Rector’s Guest, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, January–April, 2004
• Director’s Guest, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, N.C., U.S.A., January, 2000
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, January – June,1999
• Fellow, Collegium Budapest–Institute for Advanced Study, 1996–1997
• Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna, Spring, 1994
• Visiting Research Professor, Science Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB), recurring 1990–1993
• Visiting Research Fellow, President’s Office, Science Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB), recurring, 1984–1986
• Visiting Scholar, Comparative Higher Education Research Group, University of California, Los Angeles, Summer, 1983
• Visiting Research Associate, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, recurring, 1979-1986 (Fall 1979; Summer 1980; Spring 1985; Winter 1986)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, Spring 1976

Awards and Honours

• International Honorary Member (IHM), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2017
• Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2006
• Member, Academia Europaea (MAE), 2001
• The Björn Wittrock Lecture Series (also published in book format), 2019-present. (Delivered by Professors Jürgen Kocka (2019) and Helga Nowotny (2020)
• Portrait painted by the Swedish artist Bo Larsson (Uppsala University Portrait Collection)
• Festschrift, edited by Hans Joas and Barbro Klein, The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science. Leiden: Brill, 2010, 434 pp.
• Dedicated book. Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl, Social Theory: Twenty Introductory Lectures. German orginal edition by Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 2004. English edition by Cambridge University Press, 2009, 605 pp.
• The Gustavus Adolphus Medal in Gold, Uppsala University, 2018; ”… as Principal of SCAS and its driving force ever since its creation in 1985 (he) has contributed more than anyone else to the strong position of the Institute as an internationally renowned Institute for Advanced Study…and for having made great contributions to the social sciences and the humanities in Sweden and in Europe.”
• The King’s Medal in Gold (HM The King of Sweden); ”… for significant contributions to Swedish social science research”, 2009
• Federal Cross of Merit, 1 Kl. (The President of Germany), 2008
• Honorary Doctor, University of Tartu, 2003
• Torgny Segerstedt Medal, Uppsala University, 1998

A Selection of Grants

• 1980-1985 Principal Investigator, Research Grant for a Study of the History of Swedish Energy Research Policy, *1900-1980. Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research (FRN), Swedish Natural Science Research Council (NFR), Swedish National Board for Technical Development (STU) and the Swedish Energy Research Board (EFN), (Approx. EUR 1,2 Million)
• 1985-1995 Co-principal Investigator and Co-director, toether with Professors Bo Gustafsson and Rolf Torstendahl,Ten-year grant: A Swedish Centre of Excellence:Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASSS), (Approx. EUR 7,1 Million)
• 1992-1997 Principal Investigator and Coordinator for the Stockholm University application, jointly submitted in a national competition with an application from the Stockholm School of Economics, coordinated by Professor Nils Brunsson, leading to the establishment of a joint centre, Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research. Government of Sweden, (Approx. EUR 2 Million)
• 1992-2002 Principal Investigator and Programme Director, Visiting Research Grant at SCASSS for Research on the Public Sector, Government of Sweden, (Approx. EUR 0,55 Million)
• 1999-2018 Principal Investigator and Programme Director, Pro Futura Scientia Programme, Initiator together with Professor Dan Brändström, Managing Director, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) (Swedish Foundation for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences),of a National Programme for Early-career Scholars), Total amount of grant from RJ to PI for the period 2000-2018, (Approx. EUR 22 Million)
• 2004-2010 Principal Investigator together with Professor Bernd Henningsen, Humboldt University, Berlin), Ernst Cassirer Programme, Volkswagen Foundation (Approx. EUR 1,2 Million)
• 2006-2009 Principal Investigator and Coordinator of partners across Europe, CIS and China, Specific Support Action, 6th Framework Programme, Enhancing capacities for high-quality research in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) and for trans-national research co-operation between member countries of the European Union, the New Independent States (NIS), and China within the enlarged European Research Area (ERA). Funding from the European Commission, (EUR 0,66 Million)
• 2008-2020 Principal Investigator and Programme Director, Bernhard Karlgren Programme (East Asian Studies and Exchange, as of 2017 the Karlgren-Eisenstadt Programme), in collaboration with Professors Christoph Harbsmeier, University of Oslo and Michael J. Puett, Harvard University. Funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) (Swedish Foundation for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences), (Approx. EUR 0,6 Million)
• 2010-2018 Erik Allardt Programme, jointly launched with Professor Juha Sihvola, Director, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki. Funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ), (Swedish Foundation for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences), (Approx. EUR 0,72 Million)
• 2014-2017 Corresponding Coordinator with Professor Nancy L. Green, EHESS as Paris Corresponding Coordinator and Professor Didier Fassin, IAS, Princeton, as Pogramme Director, of Summer Program in Social Science: An International and Inter disciplinary Initiative, for early-career scholars from Africa, Latin America and the Middle East on Equalities and Differences, (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ), (Approx. EUR O,2 Million)
• 2015-2018 Principal Investigator and Programme Director, Johan Peter Falck Programme (Russian and East European Studies and Exchange Programme), Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ), (Approx. EUR 0,37 Million)
• 2016-2021 Principal Applicant together and in collaboration with Professors Ulf Danielsson, Ulf Landegren, Dan Larhammar, Nikolai Piskunov, and with support from and in consultation with a group of scientists, including Professors Gunnar Ingelman and Bo Sundqvist, Programme for Cutting-Edge Research in the Natural Sciences at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, To Advance the Sciences and Strengthen the Scientific Community. Funding from the Erling-Persson Family Foundation and the Knut and Alice Wallenerg Foundation (in total approx. EUR 3,68 Million)

A Selection of Twelve Publications

Five monographs and fifteen edited volumes with leading international publishers as well as a large number of articles in scientific and scholarly journals. Below is a list of twelve of publications.

Peter Wagner, Carol Hirschon Weiss, Hellmut Wollmann and BJÖRN WITTROCK (eds.), Social Sciences and Modern States: National Experiences and Theoretical Crossroads, Advances in Political Science - An International Series, launched by the International Political Association, Vol. 9, 392 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991; Spanish edition 1999; new printing 2008; published online 2012

Peter Wagner, BJÖRN WITTROCK and Richard Whitley (eds.), Discourses on Society: The Shaping of the Social Science Disciplines, Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, Vol. 15, In Memoriam Norbert Elias, 385 pp. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991; new printing 1994; also published online

Sheldon Rothblatt and BJÖRN WITTROCK (eds.), The European and American University Since 1800: Historical and Sociological Essays, Co-editor with Sheldon Rothblatt, 370 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993; reprinted 1996 and 2006; Spanish edition 1996; published online 2010

BJÖRN WITTROCK and Peter Wagner, ”Social Science and the Building of the Early Welfare State: Toward a Comparison of Statist and Non-statist Western Societies”, pp. 90-113, in Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol (eds.), States, Social Knowledge and the Origins of Modern Social Policies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996; new printing 2017; also published online

Johan Heilbron, BJÖRN WITTROCK and Lars Magnusson (eds.), The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity: Conceptual Change in Context, 1750-1850, Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, Vol. 20, 293 pp. Dordecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, paperback 2001; also published online

BJÖRN WITTROCK, ”Modernity: One, None, or Many? European Origins and Modernity as a Global Condition”, Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 129, No 1, Winter 2000, pp. 31-60

Johann P. Arnason, S.N. Eisenstadt and BJÖRN WITTROCK (eds), Axial Civilizations and World History, Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Society, Vol. 4, 573 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2005; also published online

Johann P. Arnason and BJÖRN WITTROCK (eds.), Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries, Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances; also published as a special issue of the Journal Medieval Encounters, Vol. 10, Issue 1-3; 375 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2004; paperback 2011; also published online

Peter Hedström and BJÖRN WITTROCK (eds.), Frontiers of Sociology, Annals of the International Institute of Sociology, Vol. 11, 445 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2009; also published online

BJÖRN WITTROCK, ”The Axial Age in world history”, pp. 101-119, in Craig Benjamin (ed.), The Cambridge World History, Vol. IV, A World with States, Empires, and Networks, 1200 BCE-900 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015; also published online

BJÖRN WITTROCK, “The age of trans-regional reorientations: cultural crystallisation and transformation in the tenth to thirteenth centuries”, pp. 206-230, in Benjamin Z. Kedar and Mary E. Wiesner-Hanks (eds.), The Cambridge World History, Vol. V, Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500 CE-1500 CE. In honour and memory of Shmuel N. Eisenstadt and Sabine MacCormack. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015; also published online

Shalini Randeria and BJÖRN WITTROCK (eds.), Social Science at the Crossroads, Annals of the International Institute of Sociology, Vol. 13, In honour and memory of Shmuel N. Eisenstadt and Yehuda Elkana, 368 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019; also published online

Previous Professional Appointments

• Lars Hierta Chair Professor of Government, Stockholm University, 1994-1999
• Professor of Political Science, Stockholm University, 1986-1994
• Founding Director, Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research, Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics,1992–1994
• Acting Lars Hierta Chair Professor of Government, Stockholm University, 1983
• Chair, Group for the Study of Higher Education and Research Policy, Stockholm University, 1980-1986
• Associate Professor, Stockholm University, 1979-1986
• Assistant Professor, Stockholm University, 1975-1979

Past Professional Service and Commissions of Trust

• Member, Organizing Committee, 2008–2009, for the conference, “New World, New Solutions”, Swedish Presidency of the European Union, Lund, 7-8 July, 2009
• Organizer together with Professor Lyudmila Harutyunyan, Yerevan State University, 39th World Congress, IIS, ”Sociology at the Crossroads”, Yerevan, 11-14 June, 2009
• Principal Investigator, Special Support Action (SSA), Transnational Collaboration in the Social and Human Sciences between the member countries of EU/EES, CIS-countries and China, Seventh Framework Programme, European Commission, 2007-2009
• President, International Institute of Sociology, 2005–2013
• Organizer together with Professor Yehuda Elkana, President and Rector, Central European University (CEU), and Professor Shalini Randeria (University of Zürich), 38th World Congress, IIS, “Sociology Looks at the Twenty-first Century”, Budapest, 26-30 June, 2008
• Member, Search Committee, New President of Science Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB), 2006
• Organizer together with Professor Peter Hedström, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 37th World Congress, IIS, “Frontiers of Sociology”, Stockholm, 5-9 June, 2005
• Vice President, International Institute of Sociology, 2004-2005
• Founding Member, NetIAS, Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study, 2004
• Member, Council of Scientist, INTAS (Research council, established by the European Commission, for collaboration between scientists from the member countries of the European Union and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union), 2001–2006
• Member, Executive Committee, Council for European Studies, Columbia University, N.Y., 2000-2003
• Chair, Organizing committee, conference during the Swedish Presidency of the European Union, Uppsala, 26-27 February, 2001, “Europe with a Human Face”, on the role of the social sciences and the humanities in Europe, 2000-2001
• Organizer with Professor Helga Nowotny, International Winter School for Early-Career Scholars, Collegium Budapest, 1999-2001
• Founding Member, SIAS-group of six, now ten, world leading institutes for advanced study, 1991; Chair, 1995, 2000; 2010; 2018
• Member, International Council for Science Policy Studies, 1994-1999
• Membre, Comité scientifique du colloque du bicentenaire de l’École normale supérieure, “Les grandes collèges européens et les savoirs”, Paris, 1993-1994
• Member, Standing Committee, Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC) Programme, International Social Science Council, 1991-1994
• Member, International Advisory Council, Analytical Centre on Problems of Socio-Economy and Science Technology Development, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1990-1992
• Founding Steering Group Member, (International) Constortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER), Kassel, 26 November, 1988
• Member of a three-person Commission to explore the feasibility of national programme for advanced research in the social sciences, appointed by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (RJ), the Swedish Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSFR) and the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research (FRN), 1984-1985
• Organizing Committee, together with Professors Assar Lindbeck and Johan Myhrman,1982-1984, Nobel Symposium, No 61, “Growth of Government”, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 15-17 August, 1984

Science Advice to Research Councils, Research Foundations and Research Institutions

• Chair, External Group of Experts, Assessment of the Social, Behavioural and Legal Sciences, University of Helsinki, 2018-2019
• Member, Academy Professor Review Panel, Academy of Finland, 2018
• Member, Assessment Committee, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2017
• Member, External Expert Group, Assessment of all research activities, Umeå University, 2015
• Member, External Expert Group, Research Assessment, Social Sciences, University of Turku, 2015
• Member, International Academic Advisory Committee, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2012-2015
• Member, Review Committee, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2011
• Member, Academic Advisory Board, School of History, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, 2008-2013
• Roundtable Participant, Decadal Review, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 18 April, 2009
• Member, Expert Group, Mid-term evaluation, Foundation-initiated Programme „Schlüsselthemen der Geisteswissenschaften“ (“Key themes of the social and human sciences”), Volkswagen Foundation, 2009
• Member, External Panel for the first Evaluation of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, 2006-2007
• Member, Evaluation Group, 3rd Funding Line, Excellence Initiative, German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat), for the candidacies of Technical University of Munich and University of Freiburg, 2006
• Expert Assessment, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, The Rockefeller Foundation, 2005-2006
• Member, Group for the Evaluation of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), 2005
• Member, Evaluation Commission for the first evaluation of the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER), University of Kassel, 2005
• Chair, Commission for the Evaluation of Collegium Budapest, 2003-2004
• Member, Expert Group, Leibniz Association (Leibniz-Gemeinschaft) for the evaluation of Science Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB), 2003-2004
• Member, Presidential Commission, ”Social Sciences in the Max Planck Society”, Max Planck Society (MPG), 2001-2002
• Member, Scientific Council, Centre for Behavioural and Health Sciences, National Centre of Excellence, University of Tartu, 2002-2005
• External Reviewer, Centres of Excellence Programme, Academy of Finland, 2001
• Member, International Committee, Program on Gender and Culture, Central European University , Budapest, 2001
• Advisory assignments, President, Central European University, Budapest, 2000-2001
• Member, Science Advisory Board (Forskningsberedningen), Government of Sweden, 1999-2002
• Member, Academic Advisory Board, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin), 2000-2006
• Member, Selection Committees for Chairs in Social and Political Sciences, European University Insitute (EUI), Florence, 1994, 1999, 2002
• Member, Working Group, German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat), for the evaluation of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2000
• Member, Academic Advisory Board, Collegium Budapest-Institute for Advanced Study, 1999-2005
• Member, Search Committee for New Rector and Permanent Fellows, Collegium Budapest, 2001-2002
• Member, International Consultation Board, Center for Analysis of Cultural Change in Europe, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 1995 -2000
• Member, Steering Committe, Programme for Advanced Research on the Europeanization of the Nation State (ARENA), Norwegian Research Council, 1993-2003
• Member, Working Group for the Evaluation of Science Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB), German Council of Sience and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat), 1996
• Member, Working Group for the Evaluation of the Institute of Cultural Sciences (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, KWI), Essen, German Council of Sience and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat), 2001
• Evaluator, Centres of Excellence Programme, Academy of Finland, 2001
• Evaluator, Euoropean Commission, Programme of suport for Centres of Excellence in Central and Eastern Europe; main expert for the assessment of the social sciences, Brussels, 1999
• Deputy Member, Research Council, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, 1996-1999
• External Evaluator, The Norwegian National Research Programme in Leadership, Organization and Management (LOS), Norwegian Research Council, 1992
• Expert, Swedish Government Commission on the Organization of Research on Public Administration and the Public Sector, 1991
• Member, Executive Board, Society of (Swedish) Parliamentarians and Scientists (RIFO), 1989 – 2001
• Member, Working Group for the evaluation of the Science Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB), German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat)1996
• Member, Academic Advisory Board, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, 1994-1998
• Member, Appointed by the Government of Sweden, Council of the Swedish Agency for Public Management, 1992-1995
• Member, Council for Energy System Studies, Swedish National Energy Board, 1990-1992
• Member, Swedish Council for Studies in Higher Education, 1988-1996
• Member, Scientific Council, Swedish Center for Business and Policy Studies (SNS), Stockholm, 1990–1996
• Member, International Panel of Experts, Swiss Science Council, Evaluation of the Social Sciences in Switzerland, 1992
• Member, Working Group, Science Studies and Science Policy Studies, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), London,1989
• Member, International Commission on Social Science in Western Europe, 1988-1992
• Vice President, Swedish Political Science Association, 1987-1988
• Member, Commission on Horizons and Opportunities of the Social Sciences (HOSS), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), London, 1986-1987
• Member, Political Science Committee, Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1983-1984
• Expert, Technical Co-operation Service, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Policy Anlysis: The University/Government Interface, Istanbul,1983
• Member, International Advisory Board, VII World Futures Studies Conference, World Futures Studies Federation, Stockholm, 6-8 June, 1982
• Chair, Group for the Study of Higher Education and Research Policy, Stockholm University, 1980-1986
• Expert, Swedish Government Commission on the Production and Utilization of Statistics, 1980-1983
• Member,Swedish Delegation, Committee on Science and Technology Policy, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, February, 1978

Editorial Boards

Membership of editorial or advisory boards of more than twenty international scholarly journals and book series, including the following ones:

• Member, Editorial Board, European Review: Interdisciplinary Journal of Academia Europaea, Cambridge University Press, 2004-present
• Member, Editorial Board, Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, founded in 1977, Springer,1990-present
• Editor-in-Chief, Annals of the International Institute of Sociology (established in Paris in 1893), Brill Academic Publishers, 2005-present

Other journals and book series include or have included Higher Education as well as Knowledge and Policy; and Policy Sciences but also the oldest international journal in the field of sociology, namely Revue international de sociologie-International Review of Sociology (1893), now published by Routledge-Taylor&Francis.

Guest editor of two issues of Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences but also member for two decades of the Advisory Board of Trames: Journal for the Humanities and the Social Sciences, published by the Estonian Academy of Sciences, as well as member of the board of the Chinese Journal of European Studies.