Dr. Andreas Norlén, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament, speaks at AIWS Summit 2020

AIWS Summit 2020 is scheduled to be organized April 26-28, 2020 in partnership with World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid. Due to social distancing and Harvard’s closure in this time, the AIWS Summit 2020 will be done online on April 28, and will finish on May 5, 2020 with AIWS Roundtable “A New Social Contract in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: the protection of privacy rights in times of the COVID-19 Pandemic”.  The face-to-face event will be organized from 16 to 18 of September 2020.

At AIWS Summit 2020’s opening session April 28, 2020, Dr. Andreas Norlén, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament, will speak about issues that the Social Contract 2020 should address, then participants such as former presidents, prime ministers, and distinguished thinkers will discuss with Speaker Andreas Norlén.

Andreas Norlén was elected Speaker of the Riksdag on 24 September 2018. Before that, he was a member of parliament for Östergötland County for the Moderate Party. In the Riksdag, Andreas Norlén has been the Chair of the Committee on the Constitution, a member of the Committee on the Constitution, a member of the War Delegation, and an alternate member of the Committee on Justice and of the Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs. He has been a member of several government commissions of inquiry on constitutional matters relating to the media, the Swedish National Audit Office, the Riksdag’s work on EU matters, issues concerning privacy and the central government budget process. He has also been alternate member of the Committee on Judges, the main task of which is to present proposals to the Government on matters regarding the nomination of permanent judges in all Swedish courts.

During his years as Chair of the Committee on the Constitution, Andreas Norlén worked with the presiding members of the Committee and across party lines to ensure that there was as much broad support as possible for the conclusions reached by the Committee regarding its scrutiny of the manner in which ministers of government perform their duties and the handling of government business. During this period, the Committee on the Constitution was in principle in agreement in its annual scrutiny reports, something which had previously not usually been the case. Andreas Norlén believed that it is crucial that the practice established by the Committee on the Constitution determining how the work of the Government should be conducted should obtain broad support in the Riksdag and therefore should not change when there is a change in the political majority of the Riksdag. He also worked for broad political consensus in matters such as those affecting the Constitution and preventive measures to counteract violent extremism.

Andreas Norlén defended his thesis at Linköping University in 2004 on the subject of Unreasonableness and Section 36 of the Contracts Act and is a Doctor of Laws. During his time at Linköping University, his work as a doctoral student mainly involved doing research and teaching about commercial and business law, and for a while he was also Programme Manager for of the Programmes in Commercial and Business law. He had previously been awarded the degree of Master of Commercial and Business Law at Linköping University and Bachelor of Laws at Stockholm University. He contributed to the Festschrift in hon- our of Fredrik Wersäll with the essay entitled The independence of courts and certain closely associated matters regarding law and politics and the Festschrift in honour of Hans Stenberg with the essay entitled IT law agreements.

For many years, Andreas Norlén has also been active in the family company, Kurirengruppen i Sverige AB, which publishes newspapers. He is currently an alternate member of the board of the parent company and its subsidiary.

Andreas Norlén was born in 1973. He lives in Norrköping with his wife and son.