Academic ceremony 2024
We celebrated our first academic ceremony on 22 November 2024, where new doctors from the Swedish Defence University's own doctoral programmes were conferred. During the ceremony, which was held at Stockholm City Hall, new professors were also inaugurated and awards for outstanding contributions were presented.
New doctors, new professors and laureates
New doctors conferred
Rasmus Andrén, PhD in Political Science, Lars Henåker, PhD in War Studies and Håvard Rustad Markussen, PhD in Political Science, were conferred their degrees in a formal ceremony at the Swed...

Inaguration of new professors
On Friday 22 November, the Swedish Defence University's first academic ceremony was held with the conferment of new doctors and honorary doctors, the inauguration of new professors and the p...

New honorary doctors
Wilhelm Agrell, Professor Emeritus of Intelligence Analysis; Stefan Ring, former head teacher of military strategy, and Mykhailo Koval, Colonel General and Rector of the Ukrainian Defence Un...

The Hugo Raab Prize 2024 to Simon Hollis
Simon Hollis, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University, is awarded the 2024 Hugo Raab Prize for the book Resilience in the Pacific and th...

Medals of merit
Peter Egardt, Claes Tornberg, Christina Malm and Joakim Paasikivi are the first to receive the Swedish Defence University's Medal of Merit. The medalists are honoured at the university's fir...
