Heli Hautala
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Program
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Heli Hautala is an Adjunct Senior Fellow for the Transatlantic Security Program. She specializes in Northern European security and in Russia. Heli joined the Finnish Foreign Service in 2004. She has served several times at the Embassy of Finland in Moscow and has worked as NATO Team Leader at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. During her career Heli has also worked with trade policy, both at the Ministry and in Geneva.
Heli earned her Master of Political Sciences from the Swedish-speaking Åbo Akademi University in Finland and a Master of Laws from the University of Toronto.
Recent Publications & News
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Russia Won’t Sit Idly by After Finland and Sweden Join NATO
Commentary
By Nicholas Lokker & Heli Hautala
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CNAS Responds: One Year of War in Ukraine
Press Release
By Richard Fontaine, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Heli Hautala, Jon B. Wolfsthal, Emily Kilcrease, Jonathan Lord, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Jacob Stokes, Nicholas Lokker, Hannah Dennis & Michael Akopian
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How Finnish and Swedish NATO Accession Could Shape the Future Russian Threat
Press Release
By Nicholas Lokker, Jim Townsend, Heli Hautala & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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How Finnish and Swedish NATO Accession Could Shape the Future Russian Threat
Reports
By Nicholas Lokker, Jim Townsend, Heli Hautala & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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New CNAS Report: "Russia in the Arctic: Gauging How Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Will Alter Regional Dynamics"
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Nicholas Lokker, Heli Hautala & Col James Frey
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