Kerstin Sahlin

Kerstin Sahlin is Professor of Business Administration, especially Public Organization, at Uppsala University's Department of Business Administration. She has held significant leadership roles including 3rd Vice President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2019-2022), General Secretary for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Swedish Research Council (2013-2018), and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University (2006-2011). Currently, she chairs the WASP-HS research program board and leads an international comparative project on collegial governance in higher education.

• PhD in Business Administration (Umeå University, 1986)
• Docent in Business Administration (Stockholm School of Economics, 1990)
• Acting Professor at Stockholm School of Economics (1992-1994)

Her research focuses on transnational governance, public management reforms, management ideas circulation, and university governance. Recent work examines collegial governance trends in universities and the impact of external board members on Swedish higher education organizations.

Key article trends include institutional dynamics in university governance (2015-2024), comparative health sector reforms (2006), and management idea diffusion (2005-2008). She has contributed extensively to organizational institutionalism literature through book chapters and co-edited volumes.

Kerstin Sahlin holds memberships in multiple prestigious academies including the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. She has supervised 12 doctoral students and served on numerous editorial boards for journals like Organization Studies and Scandinavian Journal of Management.