Miyase Christensen is a Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Stockholm University. Christensen has served as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Guest Professor at KTH, as well as the Editor-in-Chief of Popular Communication and the Director of the Leading Research Environment in Global Media Studies and Politics of Mediated Communication at Stockholm University. Christensen’s research is interdisciplinary and integrative in nature. It comprises social theory perspectives on globalization processes, mobility and environmental change with a focus on the Arctic, technology and culture, and politics of communication and policy studies. As part of the Horizon2020 InsSciDE project Inventing a Shared Science Diplomacy for Europe, she conducted a case study on environmental change communication as a diplomatic problem. Christensen has published numerous international articles and seven books, the last few being Arctic Geopolitics, Media and Power(2019); Cosmopolitanism and the Media: Cartographies of Change(2015); and When the Ice Breaks: Media and Politics of Climate Change(2013).

Heather Exner-Pirot is the Managing Editor of the Arctic Yearbook. She is a Board member of the Saskatchewan Indigenous Economic Development Network, The Arctic Institute, and the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation. She is a member of the GlobalArctic Mission Council and former chair of the Canadian Northern Studies Trust. She has previously held positions at the University of Saskatchewan, the International Centre for Northern Governance and Development and the University of the Arctic, and completed her doctoral degree in political science at the University of Calgary in 2011.

Her current research interests include Indigenous and northern economic development.

Matthias Finger is an Emeritus Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, since 2020), a Professor at Istanbul Technical University (Istanbul, Türkiye, since 2018), and a Part-time Professor at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy, since 2010).

After having been Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, New York (1989-1991) and Associate Professor at Columbia University, New York (1992-1994), Matthias Finger was appointed Professor at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration in Lausanne in 1995. Between 2002 and 2020 he held the Swiss Post Chair in Management of Network Industries at EPFL. Over his career, he has specialized in policy and regulation of infrastructures (network industries) in the areas of communications, energy, and transport. More recently, he has been applying his expertise to what he calls the „new network industries“, i.e., digital platforms, data spaces and digital infrastructures more generally. Matthias is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, the Deputy Director of the Florence School of Regulation’s Transport Area, and the Director of the Istanbul Center for Regulation. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Education in 1986, both from the University of Geneva.

Dr. Lassi Heininen is Professor emeritus, Visiting Researcher at Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki, Editor of Arctic Yearbook, Chair of GlobalArctic Mission Council of the Arctic Circle and Leader of UArctic TN on Geopolitics & Security.

His research fields include IR, Geopolitics, Security Studies, Environmental Politics, Northern European & Arctic Studies. He supervises several PhD candidates, speaks in international gatherings, and acts as a reviewer for international journals & publications.

Among his recent publications are ”Geopolitical Features, Common Interests and the Climate Crisis: The Case of the Arctic” in Geneva Paper 35/24; ”Comprehensive Security” in Towards a Sustainable Arctic (WSPC 2023); “The Post-Cold War Arctic” in Global Arctic (Springer 2022); “Climate Change and the Great Power Rivalry” in Insight Turkey (2022); “Asevarainen turvallisuus – ympäristöllinen turvattomuus” in Ukrainan sota ja maailma sen jälkeen (Vastapaino 2022).