Speakers

We carefully chooose our speakers to make sure you hear all points of views, without any bias. We believe diversity makes for constructive discussions.

Laura Churchill

Youth Board Member, Pauktuutit
Gjert Lage Dyndal

Colonel (PhD), Deputy Head, Strategic Analysis Capability, NATO HQ / Docent at the Swedish Defence University
Heather Exner-Pirot

Research Associate, Observatoire de la politique et la sécurité de l’Arctique
André Gattolin

Senator, Vice-President of the Commission on European Affairs, French Senate
Verena Gisela Huppert

Ph.D. Fellow Aalborg University, Arctic Consensus, Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq and Greenland Business Association
Einar Gunnarsson

Ambassador for Arctic Affairs for Iceland, Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials
Erika Anne Hayfield

Associate Professor in Social Sciences, Faculty of History and Social Sciences, University of the Faroe Islands
Margretha Jacobsen

Representative of the Faroe Islands to the Arctic Council
Ellen Marie Jensen

Guest Researcher at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway
Odile Joanette

Executive Director, Wapikoni Mobile
Kathleen Larkin

Arctic Security Officer, Office of Nordic, Baltic, and Arctic Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Tanja Lepistö

Special Advisor, East and North Finland EU Office
Nils-Olov Lindfors

Councillor, Region of Norrbotten; Chair of the Northern Sparsely Populated Areas network (NSPA)
Björn Lyrvall

Ambassador for Arctic Affairs, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Harri Mäki-Reinikka

Ambassador and Special Adviser on northern policies at Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs’ Arctic Team
Natalia Markushina

Professor, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University
Elle Merete Omma

EU Coordinator, Sámi Council
Jean-Sébastien Moore

Professor, Université Laval; Coordinator Lab. of Evolutionary Ecology of Northern Aquatic Resources, Institut nordique du Québec
Tonje Nermark

Vice-President Strategic Communications and Public Affairs, Mo Industrial Park
Neil O'Rourke

Assistant Commissioner, Arctic Region, Canadian Coast Guard
Bob Paquin

Head, Canadian International Arctic Centre, Canadian Embassy, Oslo, Norway
Terkel Petersen

Senior Expert, Arctic Affairs, European External Action Service
Christian Prip

Senior Policy Analyst, Fridtjof Nansen Institute
Rósa Rut Þórisdóttir

Visual Anthropologist, Steffansson Arctic Institute
Federica Scarpa

Communication Manager, Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network, International Arctic Science Committee
Li Skarin

Project Manager, PIKAB, Piteå Municipality Group
Malgorzata (Gosia) Smieszek

Researcher, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland/ co-lead of a non-profit "Women of the Arctic"
Piet Steel

Member, Belgian Polar Secretariat; Former Ambassador of Belgium to Vietnam
Bård Ivar Svendsen

Special Adviser / Ambassador for Arctic and Antarctic Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway
Tove Søvndahl Gant

Policy Officer and Expert member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (as of 1 January 2020)
Marita Vang Rasmussen

CEO of the Employers Association in the Faroe Islands, House of Industry
Veronika Veits

Director for International Ocean Governance and Sustainable Fisheries, DG MARE, European Commission
Jari Vilén

Senior Advisor for the Arctic, European Commission
Petteri Vuorimäki

Ambassador, Arctic and Antarctic Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Lars-Gunnar Wigemark

Ambassador at Large for the Arctic, European External Action Service
Thomas Winkler

Arctic Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark / Head, Department of Arctic and North America, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele

Professor at UCLouvain (Belgium), Former IPCC Vice-Chair, Co-author of the UN Global Sustainable Development Report 2019
Nikoline Ziemer

Business Development Manager, Royal Greenland A/S
Andreas Østhagen

Senior Research Fellow, Fridtjof Nansen Institute; Senior Fellow, Leadership Group, the Arctic Institute