Alumni of the year

To pay attention to the students who have studied here before, Luleå University of Technology appoints the Alumni of the Year every year. The title is awarded to someone who was a student at Luleå University of Technology and then achieved particularly great success in their career.

The jury that appoints the Alumni of the Year includes representatives from Luleå University of Technology, Luleå Student Union, Teknologkåren at Luleå University of Technology and LTU Business.

Nomination

The nomination period is open between January and May and is now closed.

Alumni of the Year 2024

• Actor Christopher Wagelin and astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg

Previous recipients

Here is a list of previous recipients of the Alumni of the Year and their employment at the time they received the award.

• 2023
  Mattias Perjos, President and CEO of Getinge and Nike Sellmar, artist and winner of Idol 2022 on TV4.
• 2022
  Eva Nordmark, former Minister for Employment and Social Affairs.
• 2021
  Actor Amanda Jansson, IT pioneer Maria Häll, and technical designer Shilpi Sinha.
• 2020
  Helena Hed president and CEO of listed PE Teknik & Arkitektur, and Meleknur Alevcan psychologist
• 2019
  Facebook agency manager Liv Sandberg and Philip Engström Lighting supervisor Important Looking Pirates
• 2018
  Ella Carlsson Sjöberg, Director and Acting Director of the Institute of Space Physics and Jonas Gustavsson, President and CEO of ÅF
• 2017
  Physiotherapist Fredrik Larsson and Victoria Van Camp Member of the Group Management and Head of Business and Product Development at SKF.
• 2016
  Maria Ågren, Director General of the Swedish Transport Agency and Olov Renberg, Chief Operating Officer of BehavioSec.
• 2015
  Peter Carlsson, Head of Purchasing and Logistics at Tesla, Rickard Kjellgren, high school teacher in Luleå and Grete Solvang Stoltz, HR Director at LKAB.
• 2014
  Catrin Fransson, CEO of the Swedish Export Credit Corporation, Markus Gustafsson, President and CEO of the communications company Prime and Mikael Fall, world champion harmonica player.
• 2013
  Kristofer Arwin, founder of the price comparison service "PriceRunner", and Sofia Ledarp, actress and winner of the Guldbagge Award.
• 2012
  Lars-Erik Wessman, founder of Pizza.nu, Katarina Willig, who works at Procter & Gamble, and Jan Ove Östensen, CEO of Volvo Technology (VTEC).
• 2011
  Elisabeth Nilsson ('70s) County Governor of Östergötland County, Lars-Eric Aaro ('80s) President and CEO of LKAB Group, Karin Thörnqvist ('90s) founder of QTE Törnqvist AB, Per-Ludvig Normark ('00s) founder of Nordnav and CEO of 7igroup.