Board of Directors

Member for Denmark (chairman)
Kasper Lykke Kirkelund Søndergaard
Danish Housing and Planning Authority
kasson@plst.dk

Sara Aasted Paarup, Vicedirektør (Deputy Member)
Plan – og Landdistriktsstyrelsen
sarpaa@bpst.dk

Member for Norway
Erik Vieth Pedersen, Director-General
Ministry of Local Governments and Regional Development
evp@kdd.dep.no

Ronny Kristiansen (Deputy Member)
Department of regional policy, KDD

Member for Sweden
Mattias Moberg, Head of Unit
Ministry of Rural Affairs and Infrastructure

Maria Eriksson, Senior Advisor, (Deputy Member)
Ministry of Rural Affairs and Infrastructure
maria.m.eriksson@regeringskansliet.se

Members for Finland
Olli Voutilainen, Senior Officer
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment
olli.voutilainen@tem.fi

Venla Bernelius, Leading Expert (Deputy Member)
City of Helsinki
venla.bernelius@helsinki.fi 

Member for Island
Björn Ingi Óskarsson, Lawyer
Ministry of Infrastructure
bjorn.i.oskarsson@irn.is

Aðalsteinn Þorsteinsson, Director (Deputy Member)
Ministry of Infrastructure

Member for Åland
Katarina Fellman, Director
Statistics and Research Åland
katarina.fellman@asub.ax

Member for the Faroe Islands
Eyðun Christiansen, Director
Association of Local Governments
eydunc@kf.fo

Representative from Nordregio staff
Nora Sánchez Gassen, Senior Research Fellow
Nordregio
nora.sanchezgassen@nordregio.org