Astrid Söderbergh Widding
Astrid Naemi Söderbergh Widding is a Swedish film studies scholar. She is Professor of film studies and Rector of Stockholm University since 2013. She is a board member of the Swedish Film Institute, a former President of the board of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation and a columnist in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. Widding earned her PhD in 1992 at Stockholm University with a dissertation on Andrei Tarkovsky. She was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2014 and became a Knight of the French Legion of Honour in 2015.
