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CIC Yukon: Arctic & European Security – the Nordic view

June 22, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm MST

About this event

Following decades of neutrality, Sweden and Finland recently joined NATO alongside Nordic neighbours including Denmark. Ambassadors from the three countries will share insights on how Arctic security is viewed from a European perspective. They will discuss what Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership means for security cooperation in the eastern Arctic and how Denmark, Sweden and Finland are working together with Canada to boost defence cooperation in our shared North.

Meet our speakers

Ambassador Harris is the Ambassador of Denmark to Canada.

He has previously served as Ambassador to Morocco and Mauritania, and has also had diplomatic postings as Deputy Head of Mission in Lithuania, Turikiye, and Egypt. Before coming to Canada, Ambassador Harris served as Director for Consular Affairs and Crisis Management at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen. Ambassador Harris completed a Masters Degree in Political Science and Contemporary History with a thesis on NATO’s expansion to the east.

Ambassador Korteniemi is the Ambassador of Finland to Canada.

Ambassador Korteniemi transferred to the post of Ambassador from her position as the Director of the North America Unit in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she oversaw political, commercial and transatlantic relations with Canada and the United States. She previously served as the Head of Unit for Peace and Security at the Permanent mission of Finland to the UN in New York and at the Embassy of Finland in Washington. Ambassador Korteniemi holds a Master’s degree in social sciences from the University of Tampere and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oregon. She was also a Transatlantic Diplomatic Fellow at the United States Department of State.

Ambassador Burgstaller is the Ambassador of Sweden to Canada.

Ambassador Burgstaller is a career diplomat who was more that 30 years experience in different foreign policy areas, including Nordic and Baltic Sea regional cooperation, reform and democratic transition cooperation in Centra and Eastern Europe and the Horn of Africa, humanitarian, peacekeeping and peacebuilding affairs and Arctic policy. Previously she was Sweden’s Ambassador to Sudan, South Sudan, and the Republic of Moldova. She has also served as the Deputy Permanent Representative of Sweden’s Mission to the UN in New York.

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  • CIC Yukon