Partners oceans apart: Economic resilience and global flows

Sari Rautio serves as the Director for Security Policy and Crisis Management within the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland since April 2018. Previously she held the position of Director for EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (2015-2018) in Helsinki and the Deputy Representative of Finland to the EU Political and Security Committee (PSC) in Brussels (2012-2015). Her earlier assignments within the Ministry entailed security policy, crisis management, UN policies, and the Middle East.

Professor Rory Medcalf is the Head of the National Security College (NSC) at the Australian National University. His professional background involves three decades of experience across diplomacy, intelligence analysis, think tanks, academia and journalism, including as founding Director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute from 2007 to 2015. He is a chief investigator in a 2019-2021 research project funded by the Australian Department of Defence, titled ‘Made for Multipolarity: Operationalising an Indo-Pacific strategy in the Indian Ocean’.

Jan-Olof Olsson has worked as an Executive Officer at the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency MSB since 2014. He is an expert within the field of security of supply, critical infrastructure and global flows, and is the MSB representative in different international work groups. He has a background in electrical engineering, and has previously worked for Fortum Power & Heat as Manager and Project Lead.

Christian Fjäder is Director of Policy Planning and Analysis at the National Emergency Supply Agency of Finland. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at FIIA and worked for Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks in the fields of corporate safety, risk management and business continuity management, being responsible for area (Asia Pacific) and global activities. He holds a PhD in International Relations from University of Sydney and is a Steering Group Member of the OECD High Level Risk Forum.

Mikael Wigell is Programme Director of the Global Security research programme at FIIA and Adjunct Professor at Tampere University. He has held Visiting Fellowships at Oxford University and the Torcuato di Tella University, Buenos Aires, as well as a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Academy of Finland. He earned his PhD from the London School of Economics and he is a former chairman of the Finnish International Studies Association. His latest book is the edited volume “Geo-economics and Power Politics in the 21st Century” (Routledge 2018; 2020).