Biographie

Ms Åsa Larsson Blind is currently Vice-President of the Saami Council. She was elected President of the Saami Council in February 2017. She has been a member of the Saami Council since 2008 and elected vice president in 2011. Larsson Blind was 2011-2015 the Saami Council board member of IPS, Indigenous Peoples Secretariat and served also in that period as the HoD for Saami Council at Arctic Council SAO meetings. 2019 Larsson Blind was, as the first women, elected chair of Samiid Riikásearvi (National Association of Sámi in Sweden).

Larsson Blind was born and raised in a reindeer herding family and holds a Master Degee in Human Resources Management and Development from the University of Umeå. Larsson Blind has been active in several Sámi organizations in Sweden. She has been a board member of the National Sámi Association in Sweden 2007-2011, a board member in the Sámi Educational Center in Jokkmokk 2007-2009, and the Sámi Youth organization in Sweden, Sáminuorra 2002-2007.