22 June, 2026

IHRS Director new delegate to the IHRA

The Director of the IHRS, Associate Professor Karin Kvist Geverts, has been appointed as the new Swedish delegate to the Academic Working Group of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Kvist Geverts succeed Dr. Oscar Österberg, research co-ordinator at the Living History Forum. – The IHRA has been criticized for becoming politicized at times, but I have been told there are many good delegates who are eager to work constructively in all the important tasks which IHRA deals with. I look forward to take part in that work, says Kvist Geverts.

BILDTEXT: Karin Kvist Geverts. Foto: Magnus Swärd