Maria Lindén (née Annala)
Research Fellow- US domestic policy
- particularly electoral disruption and other threats to democracy
- Donald Trump and his supporters
Maria Lindén is a Research Fellow at the Center on US Politics and Power of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, and a PhD student at the University of Tampere. She is also the author of the narrative non-fiction book Trumpin kansa (Trump’s People, Into Kustannus 2020) and a former news journalist.
Lindén’s main area of expertise is the United States’ domestic politics. Her current research focuses on the crisis of liberal democracy in the present-day United States, especially electoral manipulation. She lived in Boston from 2015 to 2019, working as a freelance journalist covering American politics for the Finnish News Agency and other Finnish media outlets.
Podcasts
Host of FIIA podcast US Elections Untangled
Degrees
Master of Social Sciences (University of Tampere)
Bachelor of Arts (University of Helsinki)
Language skills
Finnish, English, Spanish (working languages), Swedish, French (fluent), Italian, Russian, Estonian, German (receptive skills)