Vice-Chancellor Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn
The principal representative and leader of the university is the vice-chancellor. The government appoints the vice-chancellor on the proposal of the university board. The vice-chancellor main task is to ensure that the university's activities are carried out efficiently and in accordance with statutory requirements.
Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn has been Vice-Chancellor of Luleå University of Technology since 1 December, 2017. As Vice-Chancellor, she has overall responsibility for the entire university's operations and is responsible for the management of the operations under the University Board. The Vice-Chancellor's responsibility is both to follow the activities and to ensure that the goals decided by the University Board are achieved and to take the initiative for renewal and changes.
The Vice-Chancellor is appointed by the government, on the proposal of the University Board, for a maximum of six years and may thereafter be appointed for two further periods of three years each. The Vice-Chancellor are member of the Vice-Chancellor function.
Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn is Professor of Informatics and has been Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University before her appointment as Vice-Chancellor. As a researcher, she was a driving force in the development of the area now known as "Living Lab", which has had a major impact both nationally and internationally. She was among the first academics internationally to study crowdsourcing as a phenomenon, the impact of these digital platforms on organizations' skills supply.
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