Wallenberg Medal Executive Committee

Committee chair

Sioban Harlow
Professor Emerita of Epidemiology
Professor Emerita of Global Public Health, School of Public Health
Professor Emerita of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical School

Voting ex officio members

Steven R. Ratner
Director, Donia Human Rights Center
Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law

Johanna Eriksson
Director, Scandinavian Studies Program
Collegiate Lecturer and Lecturer IV in Germanic Languages and Literatures

Non-voting ex officio members

John Godfrey
Committee chair emeritus

Lynnetta Smith
Director of Awards, Committees and Projects, President’s Office 

Community members

Irene Butter
Co-founder of the Wallenberg Medal and Lecture and Wallenberg Endowment
Professor Emerita of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health

Judie Lax
Co-founder of the Wallenberg Medal and Lecture and Wallenberg Endowment

Haley Schreier
Assistant Director, University of Michigan Hillel

University faculty members

Omolade Adunbi
Director, African Studies Center
Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies

Timothy Chupp
Professor of Physics

Melanie Schulze Tanielian
Director of the Program in International and Comparative Studies
Associate Professor of History
Associate Professor of International and Comparative Studies

Ana Paula Pimentel Walker
Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning

Alumni

Lily Bonadonna, MD
University of Michigan Wallenberg Fellow, 2014
Emory Infectious Disease Fellow

Students 

Claudia Brinks
Undergraduate Donia Human Rights Fellow (BA ’26)

Dien Luong
Ph.D. Student, Department of Communication and Media