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Arja Rautio, MD, PhD, ERT, Emerita Chair University of the Arctic (Arctic health) and Professor in Arctic Research, University of Oulu, Finland. Her research interests are on Arctic and Indigenous health and wellbeing, research ethics and environmental health under climate and global change in the Arctic. Her main on-going projects are funded by Horizon Europe programme, and they focus on effects of permafrost thaw on Arctic coastal communities and environmental pollution on human and wild-life health. Dr Rautio is using One Health and community based participatory research approaches in her work. She is a national key health expert in the working groups of Arctic Council. She is a board member of several international societies on circumpolar health.

Dr. Stanislav Saas Ksenofontov is an Indigenous Sakha social scientist from the Sakha Republic in Eastern Siberia, Russia. In his research, Stanislav focuses on the vulnerability of Arctic Indigenous social-ecological systems to global change drivers, namely climate change, industrial development, socio-political transformations. Other research interests include Arctic Indigenous sustainability, Arctic urbanization, Indigenous identities, Russian energy megaprojects, Asian stakes in the Arctic. Dr. Ksenofontov holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of Zurich, Switzerland.  Currently, he is a postdoctoral scholar at the ARCTICenter, University of Northern Iowa, USA. Besides research, Stanislav serves as a Fellowship Coordinator at the International Arctic Science Committee (Iceland).

Harmony Jade Sugaq Wayner is a tribal member of Naknek Native Village, a commercial fisher in the Bristol Bay salmon fleet, and a marine scientist focused on social-ecological systems to promote Indigenous values and well-being in fisheries. Harmony has a Master of Resource Management from the University Centre of the Westfjords in Iceland and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Alaska Southeast. Her graduate work looked at food sovereignty's importance in the well-being of Indigenous communities in the Lake Ilimana region of Alaska, as well as the development of culturally relevant well-being frameworks for fisheries evaluation.

She currently works at the International Arctic Research Center as an Indigenous Liason for the Research Networking Activities for Sustained Coordinated Observations of Arctic Change Project (RNA CoObs) and is assembling an expert panel to work on salmon in her home region of Bristol Bay.

J. Otto Habeck is professor at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. His research interests comprise land use in northern regions, agriculture and pastoralism, symbolic aspects of space and place, mobility, gender, and lifestyle. Currently he participates in a EU-funded research project with the acronym CHARTER, which aims to formulate scenarios of environmental change in Fennoscandia; moreover, the task is to make these scenarios meaningful and relatable to reindeer-herding communities. Very recently, he contributed to the article “Critical Seasonal Conditions in the Reindeer-Herding Year” by Roza Laptander and co-authors, in the journal Polar Science. .

Dr. Gertrude Saxinger is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Currently she is the coordinator of the IASSA Working Group on Gender in the Arctic and a member of the Austrian Polar Research Institute (APRI).

Gerti is interested in studies of the Arctic (Russia and Canada) as well as remote and sparsely populated regions. Her research focuses on environmental anthropology, extractive industries, mobility (specifically FIFO and the long-distance commuting system), infrastructure in remote regions, as well as gender and intersectionality.

Andrey N. Petrov is ARCTICenter Director and Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Northern Iowa, USA. Dr. Petrov is an economic and social geographer who specializes in Arctic economy, regional development and post-Soviet society, with an emphasis on the Indigenous Peoples and local communities in Russia and other circumpolar countries. Andrey is, among other things, one of the co-editors of the 2014 Arctic Social Indicators II Report.