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Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association



16-19 September 2018
Inari, Finland

MEMBERS

CanadaLarry Bagnell, Member of Parliament, Head of Delegation, Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region

Patricia Bovey, Senator
Georgina Jolibois, Member of Parliament
Yvonne Jones, Member of Parliament
Larry Maguire, Member of Parliament
Dennis Patterson, Senator
Guyanne Desforges, Association Secretary
Thai Nguyen, Adviser

Denmark/Greenland/
Faroe Islands
Magni Arge, Member of Parliament
Aaja Chemnitz Larsen, Member of Parliament
Sjurdur Skaale, Member of Parliament
Janus Haraldsen, Adviser
Peder Pedersen, Adviser

FinlandKari Kulmala, Member of Parliament
Katri Kulmuni, Member of Parliament
Markus Lohi, Member of Parliament
Johanna Ojala-Niemelä, Member of Parliament
Paula Risikko, Member of Parliament, Speaker of Finland’s Parliament
Mari-Leena Talvitie, Member of Parliament
Linda Haanpaa, Assistant
Tommi Halme, Assistant
Aleksi Hosioja, Assistant Maarit
Immonen, Assistant Nicola Lindertz, Adviser
Tiina Virtanen, Assistant
Teemu Vuosio, Adviser
Liisa Wallin, Assistant

IcelandAri Trausti Gudmundsson, Member of Parliament
Bjorn Gunnarsson, Member of Parliament
Oddny Hardardottir, Member of Parliament
Lineik Anna Saevarsdottir, Member of Parliament
Arna Bang, Adviser

NorwayKent Gudmundsen, Member of Parliament
Svein Harberg, Member of Parliament
Eirik Larsen, Member of Parliament
Willfred Nordlund, Member of Parliament
Eirik Sivertsen, Member of Parliament, Chair of the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region
Bengt Rune Strifeldt, Member of Parliament
Bjorn-Willy Robstad, Adviser

RussiaIgor Chernyshenko, Senator
Artur Chilingarov, Senator
Alexander Ishchenko, Member of Parliament
Sergei Kotkin, Member of Parliament
Valerii Markov, Senator Fedot Tumusov, Member of Parliament
Konstantin Zaitsev, Member of Parliament
Irina Kuzmina, Adviser
Kirill Mangush, Adviser

SwedenSofia Arkelsten, Member of Parliament
Emma Nohren, Member of Parliament
Emilia Toyra, Member of Parliament
Eva Hjelm, Adviser

PERMANENT PARTICIPANTS

Russian Association of Indigenous
Peoples of the North (RAIPON)

Grigorii Ledkov, Member of Parliament
Sami Parliament CouncilAili Keskitalo
Per-Olof Nutti
Siri Persson
Tiina Sanila-Aikio

OBSERVERS

China Shuhua Dou, Member of Parliament
Lifeng Cheng, Adviser
Xiangfeng Li, Adviser

Nordic Council
Union

Matilda af Hallstrom, Representative at the European
PolandMagdalena Blenska, Member of Parliament
Piotr Pyzik, Member of Parliament

Singapore Sam Tan, Member of Parliament
Shuo Wang, Adviser

United KingdomJames Gray, Member of Parliament
University of the ArcticLars Kullerud, President
Outi Snellman, University of Lapland

West Nordic CouncilGudjon Brjansson, Member of Parliament
Sigurdur Olafsson, Secretary-General

WWF Lotta Manninen, Global Arctic Program

INVITED SPEAKERS

Juhani Damski, Director General, Finnish Meteorological Institute
Lassi Heininen, University of Lapland
Timo Koivurova, Director of the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
Elena Kudryashova, Rector of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Russia
Toni Laine, Mayor of Inari
Guy Lindstrom, Former Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region
Janne Nakkalajarvi, Sami Education Institute
Janne Seurujarvi, Managing Director, Test World
Timo Soini, Finland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chair of the Arctic Council