Election to the LTV faculty board

Request to the employees of the LTV-faculty to nominate candidates for election to the faculty board

In the autumn of 2024, a new faculty board will be elected at LTV faculty for the period 2025–2027. All employees at the LTV faculty are hereby invited to nominate candidates. Everyone who receives this email have the right submit nominations, even if you do not have voting right in the election.

The faculty board at the LTV Faculty shall have seven members and two deputy members. The dean and pro-dean will be selected among the seven board members.

The majority of the faculty board shall be members of the faculty electorate (for information on who belongs to the faculty electorate, see the university board’s delegation of authority, p 18, see the link below), but persons who do not belong to electorate can also be nominated.

Nominations should be submitted via email to valberedning-ltv@slu.se, and nominations are welcome already now. The nominated need not be asked, but a short motivation is welcome for nominations as dean and pro-dean.

Last day to submit nominations is 5 September.

The current members of the faculty board:

•       Christina Lunner Kolstrup, chair, dean

•       Karl Lövrie, deputy chair, pro dean

•       Aakash Chawade

•       Caroline Dahl

•       Laura Grenville-Briggs Didymus

•       Oleksiy Guzhva

•       Åsa Lankinen, vice dean for doctoral studies

•       Mattias Qviström, first alternate

•       Samar Khalil, second alternate

The university board’s delegation of authority (in Swedish only)

Timeline for election of the faculty board at LTV:

Nomination period 1: June 27-September 5

All employees at the LTV-faculty are invited to nominate candidates for the faculty board.

September 23

The nominating committee presents its proposal.

Nomination period 2: September 23-October 7

Those entitled to vote at LTV-fak are invited to nominate additional candidates in addition to the nominating committee's proposal.

October 21-29

Election period.

23 October

Hearing with the candidates.

In the beginning of November

The vice-chancellor appoints the dean and vice-dean. Election results are presented.

8 May, the Faculty Board at the LTV faculty decided to appoint the following persons as members and alternates for the period 1 May 2024 and until further notice, however, no later than 30 April 2027, personal deputy italicized: 

Mats Gyllin, chairman, People and society, Lisa Blix Germundsson

Helena Mellqvist, vice chairman, Landscape architecture, planning and management, Thomas Randrup

Biosystems and technology: Annie Drottberger, David Hansson
Urban and rural development: Amalia Engström, Maria Wisselgren
Plant breeding: Selvaraju Kanagarajan, Ramune Kuktaite
Lotta Malmborg (administration), Ida Andersson (Collaboration and development
Plant protection biology: Svante Resjö, personal deputy vacant
Ingrid Olsson, student representative, Tova Franzén.