BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Honorary President
Erik D. Ramanathan
U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden

Officers
President
Alex Lange

Native of the United States and Germany, immigrant in Sweden.
Advocate for active citizenship.
Loves to hike and sail.
First Vice President
Rodney Cornelius

Senior cybersecurity professional.
Passionate about music, technology, gaming, travelling and exploring new cultures.

 

 
Second Vice President
Germaine Thomas

Provides professional solutions in an inter-cultural context.
She is a songbird of Stockholm creating choral classics.

 

 Germaine Thomas portrait
Secretary
Bill Borden
Activist/supporter of good causes, sales writer, teacher, traveler, native Chicagoan
www.americaninsights.se
Treasurer
Craig Erdrich		  

 

Directors

Jerry Bartlett

Number cruncher. Doer.

 Jerry Bartlett portrait

Dag Blanck

A Swede trying to explain the U.S. to Swedes.
Teaches American studies at Uppsala U.

Nicole Clifford

Vietnamese-American communications consultant.
Born and raised in SoCal, former Hill staffer in DC, made the switch to PR in BOS.

 

Elizabeth Dacey

Gregarious communicator.

 Elizabeth Dacey portrait
   

David Landes

Storyteller

 David Landes portrait

Jakob Stenberg

 

 

Anna Rosvall Stuart

Executive Director of The Sweden-America Foundation.
Native Stockholmer, keen conversationalist and networker, happy to promote US academia in Sweden.

 Anna Rosvall Stuart portrait

Mathias Sundin

CEO of Warp News – fact-based optimistic news.

Co-founder and executive chairman of the Warp Institute
Member of Parliament, former

Agnes Szabela 

Student that loves to travel and explore new cultures, great at card games!

 Agnes Szabela portrait
   

Officers and Directors are reachable using firstname.lastname @ americanclub.se e-mail addresses.

The Board of Directors is elected by the membership as part of each annual meeting. Candidates for open Board positions are provided by the nominating committee which can be reached for recommendations or inquiries by contacting any one of the Club officers.

* Provided for in Club Bylaws, the current United States Ambassador to Sweden can be nominated as Honorary President by the Board of Directors. This tradition is based on strong and productive relationships between groups and U.S. representatives meeting in Sweden documented as early as Consul Charles Leas in 1862.


The Club’s founding on April 3, 1905, provides a link to the first United States Ambassador to Sweden, Benjamin Franklin, who was the U.S. signatory to the Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between the United States and Sweden on April 3, 1783.