Curriculum Vitae
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Claes Filip Nicolas Wijkström
4th of February, 1965, Stockholm, Sweden
Handelsvägen 16, SE 122 32 Enskede, Sweden
Mobile: +46 706 34 74 77; Office: +46 8 736 94 89
[email protected]; www.civilsociety.se
Studies and Academic Career:
• 2001-pres Currently and since 2001 appointed as Associate Professor (Docent, tenure position)
in Business Administration at the Department for Management and Organization,
Stockholm School of Economics, SSE (Handelshögskolan i Stockholm).
• 2012-2013 Guest Professor in Business Administration at the School of Business, Stockholm
University, Stockholm, Nov 1, 2012 – Oct 31, 2013 (www.sbs.su.se).
• 2010-pres Center Director, Stockholm Center for Civil Society Studies, SSE Institute for Research.
• 2010-2011 Director of SIR, Stiftelsen SSE Institute for Research (www.economicresearch.se)
• 2010-2011 SSE Director of Research, Stockholm School of Economics.
• 2007-2009 Professor in organization and leadership at Ersta Sköndal University College in
Stockholm (Ersta Sköndal högskola, www.esh.se).
• 2007-2010 Scientific Secretary (vetenskaplig sekreterare) at SparbanksAkademin.
• 2004-2011 Director, The Economic Research Institute (EFI, Ekonomiska Forskningsinstitutet)
• 2001.0614 Appointed as Associate Professor (docent) in Business Administration at SSE.
• 1999-2005 Researcher in nonprofit governance, strategy and organization theory at EFI/SSE
on a six-year research grant funded by the Swedish Cancer Society (Cancerfonden)
and the Swedish Red Cross.
• 1998.0514 PhD in Business Administration from SSE; with studies commenced January 1993,
PhD thesis defended May 1998. Thesis (in 2 volumes) The Non-Profit Sector in Sweden
(Manchester University Press) and Different Faces of Civil Society.
• 1997-1998 Invited as Visiting Scholar and teacher (MBA) at the Department for Management,
University of Technology Kuring-gai Campus, Sydney Australia (www.uts.edu.au).
• 1993-1998 PhD studies at SSE. Focus on nonprofit and civil society economics, organization,
governance, management and leadership.
• 1993.0120 MBA and ekonomexamen vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm (SSE).
• 1986-1988 Studies in Engineering Physics (teknisk fysik) at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).
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Present Position and Academic Teaching Experiences
Currently, Dr. Wijkström is Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics
(SSE, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm). At the Department for Management & Organization,
he has, from the early 1990s, established a research program (and from 2010 a Research
Center) on civil society studies focusing on organization, strategy and governance topics.
Dr. Wijkström has been conducting and publishing his own research for more than two
decades (list of publications upon request). Wijkström has developed special courses at
Master level on Civil Society Organization and Corporate Social Responsibility. He frequently
instructs professional audiences in different executive formats and extensive teaching in
general management and organization theory at SSE and elsewhere and participation in
PhD courses in Sweden and abroad are valuable parts of his teaching experience.
Wijkström is currently supervising PhD candidates and three students have successfully
finished their PhDs with Wijkström as main supervisor (huvudhandledare). Wijkström has
been appointed as faculty opponent at other universities (in sociology, Stockholm
University: 2003; in business administration, Gothenburg University: 2006) and he has
also served as member in PhD examination committees, both in Sweden and abroad
(Ireland: Trinity College, Dublin, 2008; the Netherlands: Tilburg University, 2009).
Other Positions, Engagements and Research Funding
Dr. Wijkström has been appointed expert in several governmental committees, and was
appointed scientific counsellor (vetenskapligt råd) with the National Board of Health in
2000 and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen renewed in 2003, 2006 and 2009. Dr. Wijkström chairs
the jury on nonprofit reporting set up by the audit firm PwC and between 2005-2007, he
was a member of the activity board (verksamhetsrådet) for Sida Civil Society Center. In
2003, he became member of the special area group on civil society studies set up for a sixyear period at Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Wijkström was appointed National Coordinator
for Sweden in the CINEFOGO Network Council, a network of European Centers of
Excellence in civil society research financed by the European Commission and in 20072010, Dr. Wijkström served part-time as Scientific Secretary at SparbanksAkademin.
In the year 2000, Dr. Wijkström took part in the very first European PhD Dissertation
Network Meeting on Civil Society held at LSE in London. He has since then been active
as facilitator and part of the academic “faculty” at the annual meetings of this network,
for example by organizing the Network Meeting in Stockholm in 2003. He serves in the
editorial team for a book series on civil society at Nomos, a German academic publisher.
Dr. Wijkström currently serves as editorial board member in the Journal of Civil Society,
Voluntary Sector Review and Nonprofit Policy Forum, and frequently serves as reviewer in
these and other scholarly journals in his field of interest.
Wijkström has received substantial financial support for his research through grants and
contracts. Most notable among the funders are Riksbankens Jubileumsfond; The Cancer
Society (Cancerfonden) and the Swedish Red Cross; Stiftelsen Lantbruksforskning; Swedish
Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences and KFs Jubileumsstiftelse.
Visiting Positions Abroad
Dr. Wijkström held a visiting position as invited Scholar at the School of Management at
the University of Technology, Sydney in Australia, in 1997-1998. During Oct-Dec 2004,
he was invited as Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Nonprofit Management
Trinity College, Dublin. In the fall 2008 Dr. Wijkström was invited to develop and teach a
course in nonprofit management at Wirtschaft Universität, Wien.
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