Miyase Christensen is Professor of Media and Communication Studies and affiliated researcher at the Dept. of History and Philosophy, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Christensen has served as 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 and comprises social theory perspectives on globalisation processes, mobility and environmental change with a focus on the Arctic; technology and culture; and, politics of communication as well as policy studies. As part of the Horizon2020 InsSciDE project Inventing a Shared Science Diplomacy for Europe, she is currently conducting a case study on environmental change communication as a diplomatic problem. Christensen has published numerous international articles and seven books, the last two being Arctic Geopolitics, Media and Power(2019); and, Cosmopolitanism and the Media: Cartographies of Change(2015).

Heather Exner-Pirot is the Managing Editor of the Arctic Yearbook. She is a Board member with 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. She is a consultant based in Western Canada working primarily with First Nations and Metis organizations on governance and economic development.

Matthias Finger is Professor Emeritus, in charge Governance and Regulation at the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT) at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Geneva and has been an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University (New York), an Associate Professor at Columbia University (New York), a Professor of Management of Public Enterprises at the Swiss Federal Institute of Public Administrationand between 2002 and 2020 the Swiss Post Chair in Management of Network Industries at EPFL. Since 2010,he is a part-time professor at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, where he directs the Florence School of Regulation’s Transport Area. Since 2017, he is a professor at the Faculty of Management at Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ).

He publishes in, and acts as a reviewer for, international journals & publications. Among his recent publications are ”Comprehensive Security” in Towards a Sustainable Arctic (WSPC 2023); “The Post-Cold War Arctic” in Global Arctic (Springer 2022); ”The Evolving Geopolitics of Polar Regions” (with H. Nicol) in Polar Cousins (UCalgary Press 2022); “Climate Change and the Great Power Rivalry” in Insight Turkey (2022); Arctic Policies and Strategies - Analysis, Synthesis, Trends (with Everett, Padrtova & Reissell, IIASA 2020); Climate Change and Security(with H. Exner-Pirot, Palgrave Pivot 2020).