Researchers
Johanna Böhm
PhD Candidate
Johanna Böhm is a PhD candidate in civil law at the University of Gothenburg. Her research project focuses on the EU regulation of corporate sustainability reporting, and how the regulation can be developed into a standard that fulfils its regulatory aims while remaining practicable for issuers. Before starting her doctoral studies, she worked in teaching at the University of Gothenburg and in market surveillance at Nordic Growth Market.
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Andreas Gustafsson
PhD Candidate
Andreas has 25 years of experience in the financial market, as General Counsel Europe at Nasdaq and Chairman of Nasdaq Stockholm AB, as well as at the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. His team has twice won the FT Innovative Lawyers Award in technology (2018) and ESG (2023). He has also been a member of several stakeholder groups such as Swedish self-regulatory bodies, ESMA, EFRAG and CityUK’s Leadership Council. He is currently a member of the Swedish Corporate Governance Board.
Andreas’ research focuses on regulatory frameworks sustaining equity markets in the EU and UK, with emphasis on Nordic developments.
Read more about the project here.
Sara Göthlin
Associate Professor
Sara Göthlin is the director of the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL). Her research focuses, in particular, on the legal mechanisms through which creditors influence corporate decision-making, including pricing, contractual rights, collateral and restructuring. Her current projects examine how the legal framework for debt finance interacts with broader regulatory and geopolitical objectives.
Sara holds a PhD in private law from Stockholm University. She has published on subjects such as insolvency law, sustainable finance, contract law and theory, and corporate restructuring. Prior to pursuing an academic career, she was a partner with a transaction law firm in Stockholm, advising clients on bond issues, leveraged buyouts, corporate credits and derivatives.
Anton Held
PhD Candidate
Anton Held is a doctoral candidate in civil law at Gothenburg University, with a focus on company law and securities market law. He is currently working on a research project concerning equal treatment of corporate bond holders. Before starting his doctoral studies, he was an associate at Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyrå.
Mats Isaksson
Director
Mats Isaksson is Chairman of the board of the Swedish Corporate Governance Board. He was until 2021 the head of the Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), focused on public policy advise in corporate governance, capital markets and state-owned enterprises. Mr. Isaksson serves on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia University and is already a Senior Visiting Fellow at the SCCL. He is a founding Director of the Swedish Corporate Governance Forum (CGF) and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Corporate Governance Network.
Erik Lidman
Professor / Director
Erik Lidman is a professor of corporate law at Stockholm University. He has written extensively in the areas of corporate governance, company law and stock market regulation, and have consulted for organisations such as the OECD, the World Bank and the Swedish Corporate Governance Board. He is an editor of the Nordic Journal of Corporate Law and a co-manager for the Corporate Governance Forum (CGF). He is also a rapporteur to the Securities Council (Aktiemarknadsnämnden), one of Sweden’s representatives in the ESMA Shareholder Transactions Working Group and the OECD Corporate Governance Committee, and the secretary to the Nasdaq Stockholm Disciplinary Committee.
Academic page:
https://www.su.se/profiles/erli4472-1.622354 / https://www.gu.se/om-universitetet/hitta-person/eriklidman
Alexandra Park Larsson
PhD Candidate
Alexandra Park Larsson is a doctoral candidate in civil law at Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL), Department of Law, Stockholm University. Her specific research focus is on company law and stock market regulation. She is currently working on a research project on capital increases in Swedish listed companies through non-preemptive share issuances (private placements). She is also an editorial secretary of the Nordic Journal of Corporate Law. Before embarking on doctoral studies, she worked as an associate at Linklaters, Stockholm office.
Academic page:
https://www.su.se/profiles/alpa2442-1.656285?open-collapse-boxes=
Rolf Skog
Professor / Director
Rolf Skog was the driving force behind the Swedish companies act 2005 and is one of the globally leading corporate law scholars. He has published over 200 academic articles on company law, stock market regulation and corporate governance. He is a director general of the Swedish Securities Council (Aktiemarknadsnämnden), a company law expert at the Swedish Ministry of Justice, and a member of the OECD Corporate Governance Committee, and has held professorial positions at a number of universities in Sweden and abroad, including Columbia Law School.
Jesper Zackrisson
PhD Candidate
Jesper Zackrisson is a PhD candidate in civil law at the University of Gothenburg. His research is focused on company law and stock market regulation, and his dissertation project concerns inside information and disclosure obligations of share issuers under the EU Market Abuse Regulation. In addition to his academic work, Jesper is assistant manager of the Corporate Governance Forum (CGF) and secretary to the Swedish Corporate Governance Institute (SCGI) and the Swedish Securities Council (Aktiemarknadsnämnden).
Jesper’s research is generously funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.
Academic page:
https://www.gu.se/om-universitetet/hitta-person/jesperzackrisson
