Tanja Joona (Dr.Soc.Sci.), Docent in Public International Law is working as a Senior Researcher at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland (2000 - ). She is a Fulbrights Scholar at the Arctic Initiative IV Program (2024-2026) and also the PI (Principal Investigator) of REBOUND, a consortium funded by the Strategic Research Council of Finland under the JUST TRANSITION program (2023-2029) https://www.arcticcentre.org/EN/rebound. She was the Finnish Institutional  leader and WP4 leader of the H2020 project JUSTNORTH (2020-2023): Toward Just, Ethical and Sustainable Arctic Economies, Environments and Societies. www.justnorth.eu.Tanja Joona also hold a position as the Arctic Five Chair in Just Green Transition (2022-2024). Joona’s primary research interests focus mainly on the Arctic region, with comparative legal and political aspects of Indigenous Sámi society and especially issues dealing with traditional livelihoods, energy transition, and other land use, international human rights law, and identity questions in the context of justice and equality. Her Ph.D. (2012) dealt with the implementation of ILO Convention No. 169 concerning the rights of indigenous peoples and land use questions in Nordic countries. She has been working with several national and international projects, e.g., on Sámi children and youth in urban cities, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (NUORGÁV). During 2018-2020, she worked as a researcher in a project dealing with Arctic industrial cities and youth wellbeing (WOLLIE) funded by the Finnish Academy. Tanja Joona has published numerous scientific peer-reviewed articles and participated in international conferences worldwide. She also has several positions of trust at the University of Lapland as well as in the society as a Directorate Board Member of Metsähallitus, Council Member of Municipality of Ylitornio and Deputy Board Member of the Regional Council of Lapland. She is also the Chair of the Arctic Working Group of the Baltic Sea Commission.