Iselin / Heggelund Stensdal

Iselin Stensdal is Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway and has worked on Asian and Chinese interests for the Arctic since 2012. She edited Asian countries and the Arctic Future (2016), one of the first volumes that thoroughly investigated Asian countries’ Arctic interests. 

Gørild M. Heggelund is Research Professor at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway. She has conducted research on China’s environmental, energy and climate change policy for three decades, as well as China’s Arctic policies. Heggelund has lived and worked 17 years in China, including for the UN.