Mattias Hessérus

Mattias Hessérus is the Director of the Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy and sits on the steering committee of the Engelsberg Applied History Programme at the University of Cambridge and King’s College London.

Hessérus holds a PhD in History from Uppsala University and was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Columbia University in New York City (2007-2008), and a Visiting Researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris (2008-2009). He is the author of Rätten till Privatlivet (Carlsson bokförlag, 2017), a history of the press and privacy in Sweden, co-author of How Media Ownership Matters (Oxford University Press, 2025; w/R. Benson, T. Neff and J. Sedel) and co-editor of several anthologies. He is part of the Engelsberg Ideas team.