Anna-Lill Drugge
Anna-Lill Drugge Photo: Sameradion
Age: 47 years
Lives: Umeå
Occupation: Ph.D. in history and works as a university lecturer in Sami studies.
Background: Has researched Sami history, Sami media, indigenous peoples and Sami women and the mechanization of reindeer husbandry.
Gunlög Fur
Gunlög Fur Photo: Press photo
Age: 65 years
Lives: Tolg in Växjö
Occupation: Professor of history at Linnaeus University in Växjö
Background: Researched Swedish colonialism in Sweden and North America between Swedish settlers and American indigenous people and the Sami.
Contributed to the Church of Sweden's white book on the relations between the church and historical Sámi.
member of the Royal Academy of Wits.
Marie B Hagsgård
Marie B Hagsgård.
Photo: Sami radio & SVT Sápmi
Age: 62 years
Lives: Gothenburg
Profession: Lawyer, International expert.
Background: President of the Council of Europe's advisory committee for the framework convention on the protection of national minorities.
Judge-trained consultant in, among other things, writing judgments and procedural justice for courts.
Patrik Lantto
Patrik Lantto Photo: Sami radio
Age: 54 years
Lives: Umeå
Occupation: Professor at the Várdduo Center for Sami Research
Background: Has researched Sami media, education and history.
Marianne Liliequist
Marianne Liliequist Photo: Sami radio
Age: 72 years
Lives: Umeå
Occupation: Professor emerita at the Department of Cultural and Media Studies, Umeå University
Background: Researched on older Sámi, female zealots within the Sámi struggle and on Sámi belonging and exclusion.
Bertil Marklund
Bertil Marklund Photo: Press photo
Age: 73 years
Lives: Skellefteå
Profession: Ph.D. Várđđuo, Center for Sami Research at Umeå University.
Background: Wrote the thesis "Det milsvida skogfolket".
2015", which deals with how the forest Sami's lives were transformed, as well as a historical study on the Muonio forest Sami village.
Jonas Monié-Nordin Photo: SVT
Jonas Monie-Nordin
Age: 51 years
Lives: Skarnäck
Profession: Docent in historical archeology with a focus on early modern times.
Background: Issues of the heart are globalisation, colonialism and the rise of modernity, as well as issues relating to the Middle Ages.
He is also the editor of the journal Meta - historical archaeological journal.
Ulf Mörkenstam
Age: 57 years
Lives: Stockholm
Occupation: Professor, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University
Background: His main areas of research are policy studies and political theory, with a particular focus on indigenous rights.
He has been project manager for the first two election surveys in connection with elections to the Swedish Sámi Parliament, and has done several studies on Swedish Sámi politics.
Eivind Torp
Photo: Máret Steinfjell/ Sameradion & SVT Sápmi
Age: 66 years
Lives: Ridge
Occupation: Docent
Background: Worked for a long time with Sami legal issues at Mittuniversitetet, among other things with the establishment of the Sami legal database Svea.
Known to the public as a trial commentator for Sameradion and SVT Sápmi.
Laila Susanne Vars
Laila Susanne Vars Photo: Sami radio
Age: 45 years
Lives: Kautokeino
Profession: Ph.D., Lawyer, rector of Sámi Allaskuvla
Background: The only member who does not live on the Swedish side of Sápmi.
As a young lawyer, she negotiated the Finnmark Act with the Norwegian state, started her own party and sat for a period as vice president of the Sami Parliament, since 2017 a member of the UN's Indigenous Expert Group (EMRIP).
Patricia Fjellgren
Patricia Fjellgren Photo: Jörgen Heikki, Sami radio
Age: 45 years
Lives: Staare – Östersund
Occupation: Professional language revitalizer
Background: Multicultural worker with roots in Mittådalen and Idivuoma.
Received the Language Council's minority language award in 2017 for the work to revitalize the Sami languages.