DIRECTORS
The Swedenborg Society is governed by a Council of 15 elected Members, including a President, a Treasurer, a Chairperson and two Vice Presidents. The governing Council meets once a month and is advised by a wide range of Committees. New candidates for election are proposed and voted in at the Annual General Meeting. The Society aims to be open and transparent in its elections. Full details of candidates for election to Council are published in the Annual Report. New members of the Council members are briefed on their duties as trustees. The governance of The Swedenborg Society is set out in its Articles of Association, a copy of which can be obtained from the Secretary.
President | Anders Hallengren
Anders Hallengren is a Swedish author and scholar, a Harvard alumnus, and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He received a doctorate for a dissertation on RW Emerson’s philosophy (The Code of Concord, 1994) and is an Associate Professor and Fellow of Stockholm University. The author of many books, including Gallery of Mirrors: Reflections on Swedenborgian Thought (Swedenborg Foundation, 1998) he is also the English translator of Swedenborg’s Dream Diary and other works. He has provided the revised translation of – and an introduction to - Carl Robsahm’s Memoirs of Swedenborg, a brand new publication launched by the Swedenborg Society this summer. A prolific essayist and also a poet, Hallengren was awarded a prize by the Swedish Academy in 2008. In 2009 he lectured at the Swedenborg Association of Australia, the Hurstville Society, and the Linnean Society of New South Wales. He is currently translating a series of lectures on botany delivered by Carl Linneaus in the mid-1700s, a work commissioned by The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters.
Photograph © John Tranter
Officers & Council Members
PRESIDENT
Anders Hallengren
VICE-PRESIDENTs
John Elliott | David Lorimer
TREASURER
Alec Morley
CHAIRMAN
Dr David Lister
THE COUNCIL
The President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Chairman
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John Cunningham
Revd Frederick C Elphick
Margaret Fleming
Michael Hiller
Patrick L Johnson
Malcolm Leder
Howard Turner
Revd Alan Lewin
Madeline Waters