Contributors
TROY BOUFFARD is director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Center for Arctic Security and Resilience and an instructor at the UAF Homeland Security and Emergency Management Program. He is also a nonresident research fellow at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba.
DR. RYAN BURKE is a professor and deputy head in the department of military and strategic studies at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA). He is also research director of USAFA and U.S. Northern Command’s Homeland Defense Institute.
ROB HUEBERT is an associate professor in the department of political science at the University of Calgary. He has also served as the associate director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. He served as a member of the Canadian Polar Commission (now Canada Polar Knowledge) from 2010 to 2015.
MARC LANTEIGNE is an associate professor of political science at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He specializes in international relations, comparative politics (China, the Indo-Pacific, Oceania and the polar regions), security studies and comparative political economy.
U.S. AIR FORCE MAJ. GEN. (RET.) RANDY A. KEE is the senior advisor for Arctic security affairs responsible for assisting the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) with the establishment of the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies.
DR. JAMES R. MORTON is an assistant research professor with the Center for Alaska Native Health Research. Morton supports the vice chancellor of research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks to foster opportunities with the DOD.
BRIG. GEN. PASCAL GODBOUT has been commander of Joint Task Force North since May 2021. The Canadian general has supported North American Aerospace Defense Command operations on four tours of duty.
LT. COL. MIKKEL PERLT was appointed as a representative to U.S. Strategic Command by the Danish defense chief in 2021. A 2000 graduate of the Royal Danish Air Force Academy, he has served at the Danish Joint Arctic Command in Nuuk, Greenland, and as the Arctic coordinator at Defence Command Denmark.
SARA OLSVIG is the international chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and a Ph.D. fellow at Ilisimatusarfik — the University of Greenland. Olsvig was a member of the Parliament of Denmark from 2011 to 2015 and the Parliament of Greenland from 2013 to 2018.
SVEIN EFJESTAD retired from Norway’s Ministry of Defence in 2022 after working in roles that included defense and nuclear planning as well as intelligence coordination. He is now a senior advisor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
JANNE KUUSELA is director general at the defense policy department of Finland’s Ministry of Defence. He previously served as acting director general and then deputy director general for defense policy. Kuusela is a member of the Arctic Policy Steering Group for the Finnish government and a board member at the Atlantic Council of Finland.
DR. P. WHITNEY LACKENBAUER is the network lead and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the study of the Canadian North and a professor at the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University. Having authored, co-authored or edited more than 40 books, he is considered one of Canada’s leading experts on Arctic security, history and contemporary policy.
DR. ADAM LAJEUNESSE is the Irving Shipbuilding Chair in Canadian Arctic marine security policy and an assistant professor at the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government. His research centers on issues of sovereignty and security in the Canadian North, with a particular focus on the history of the Canadian Armed Forces in the region.