Chair |
Monika Szkarłat | Poland Science diplomacy the Arctic, legal and social dimension of biotechnology, right to adequate food and nutrition |
Vice-Chair |
SU Ping | China Global Governance; International Political Sociology; International Organization |
Vice-Chair |
Ingrid A Medby | United Kingdom Arctic Identity; Political Geography; Critical Geopolitics |
Past Chair |
Catherine Chambers | Iceland Ocean governance; Coastal communities; Fishers' knowledge |
Member |
Alexandra Meyer | Austria Anthropology, Climate change, Svalbard |
Member |
Olga Povoroznyuk | Austria Anthropology of infrastructure; social and environmental transformations; indigenous and local communities of the Arctic and Siberia |
Member |
Frédéric Laugrand | Belgium Anthropology, hunting and Inuit knowledge systems, mobility, history, religion, Canada |
Member |
Nathalie Pattyn | Belgium |
Member |
Susan Chatwood | Canada Health systems; Population health; Community engagement |
Member |
David Natcher | Canada Environmental livelihoods; Culture and economy; Maintenance of local food systems |
Member |
DENG Beixi | China Polar Geopolitics & Security; Polar Policy; Arctic Shipping |
Member |
Barbora Halašková | Czech Republic Arctic geopolitics and security; International relations; Foreign policy |
Member |
Zdenka Sokolíčková | Czech Republic Svalbard, Climate/environmental change, Globalisation |
Member |
Carina Ren | Denmark Tourism development and entrepreneurship; Cultural innovation, co-creation, and capacity building; Collaborative research methods |
Member |
Brooks Kaiser | Denmark Arctic economic development; Bioeconomy; Marine resource governance |
Member |
Mervi Heikkinen | Finland Women’s and gender studies; Intersectionality; Ethics; Higher education |
Member |
Florian Stammler | Finland Indigenous and local livelihoods, development impact assessments, Arctic Eurasia |
Member |
Claire Alix | France Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology; Alaska, Bering Strait, Western Canadian Arctic; Inuit history and technology |
Member |
Virginie Vaté | France Anthropology of religion; Shamanism and Christianity; Conversion; Chukotka and Alaska |
Member |
Nina Doering | Germany Co-production, transdisciplinarity, ethics, participation |
Member |
Holger Straßheim | Germany Arctic geopolitics; global governance; science-policy interlinkages; ethics |
Member |
Swati Nagar | India Science outreach; Polar outreach |
Member |
Fujio Omishi | Japan History of international relations in the Arctic, Polar Geopolitics, Arctic Policy |
Member |
Hiroki Takakura | Japan Siberian anthropology; Northeast Asian indigenous history; arctic pastoralism |
Member |
Hyunkyo Seo | Republic of Korea Polar policy |
Member |
Jihoon Jeong | Republic of Korea Science diplomacy; Science-policy linkage; Geopolitics |
Member |
Annette Scheepstra | The Netherlands Transdisciplinary; Stakeholder engagement |
Member |
Özlem Terzi | The Netherlands European Union’s external policies and the Arctic, Arctic governance and security, Indigenous Peoples’ rights. |
Member |
Britt Kramvig | Norway Indigenous peoples ontologies, politics, and art; Creativity, tourism, and innovation in Arctic and Indigenous communities |
Member |
Malgorzata Smieszek-Rice | Norway Arctic governance, science diplomacy and science-policy interface, gender-environment nexus |
Member |
Agnieszka Skorupa | Poland Psychology; Human behavior in extreme situations; Group and individual adaptation to Polar region |
Member |
Sandra Maria Rodrigues Balão | Portugal Geopolitics & (Geo)Strategy; Security & Securitization Diplomacy |
Member |
Andrei Golovnev | Russia Social psychology in the Arctic; Circumpolar states; Policy of scientific researches |
Member |
Andrey Podoplekin | Russia Social psychology in the Arctic, Circumpolar states, Policy and programs of scientific researches |
Member |
Ana Maria Manero Salvador | Spain International Law of the Sea, International Environmental Law, Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights |
Member |
Ragnhild Nilsson | Sweden Indigenous politics; Indigenous representation and self-determination |
Member |
Laine Chanteloup | Switzerland |
Member |
James D. Ford | United Kingdom Climate/environmental change, Indigenous and local communities, climate adaptation |
Member |
Victoria Herrmann | USA Climate change, community adaptation, cultural heritage, storytelling |
Member |
Vera Kuklina | USA Human geography; Knowledge co-creation; Indigenous infrastructure |
Fellow 2023 |
Alison Perrin | Canada Science policy; climate change adaptation; human-environment relationships |
Fellow 2023 |
Naja Carina Steenholdt | Denmark Quality of life, living conditions, Greenland |
Fellow 2023 |
Eda Ayaydin | France Arctic geopolitics, indigenous politics, sovereignty, governance |
Fellow 2024 |
Charlotte Gehrke | Norway Environmental policy, science communication, science diplomacy |
Fellow 2024 |
Anita Lafferty | Canada Indigenous pedagogy, decolonization, land-based |
Fellow 2024 |
Elena Adasheva-Klein | USA Human-environment relations, environmental anthropology, environmental humanities |
Fellow 2025 |
Sophie Roher | Canada health equity, social determinants of health, community-partnered research |
Fellow 2025 |
Charlotta Svonni | Sweden Sámi education, Educational policy, Sámi history |
Fellow 2026 |
Mariel Kieval | Greenland Resource governance, Arctic geopolitics, Critical and ontological security |
Fellow 2026 |
Haliehana Stepetin | USA Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous Food Security, Indigenous Knowledge Systems |
SHWG Secretary |
Anna Varfolomeeva | Finland Indigeneity / Extractive Industries / Sustainability |
