Åsa Larsson Blind

Åsa Larsson Blind is vice-president of the Saami Council. She has been a member since 2008 and elected President in the period 2017-2019. She was, as the first woman to hold the positon, elected chair of the Sámi Association in Sweden 2019-2021, where she also served as board member in 2007-2011.

Larsson Blind was in 2018 elected to the municipal council in Kiruna, representing a local Sámi party, Sámelistu. In 2022 she was re-elected and serves as member in the municipality council, municipality board and chair of the minority language committee.

In 2011-2015 Larsson Blind served as board member of the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples Secretariat, IPS, and served also as the HoD for Saami Council at Arctic Council SAO meetings. Larsson Blind has a long experience from working with Sámi issues both nationally and internationally and experience from several Sámi organizations; 2007-2009 the Sámi Educational Center in Jokkmokk, 2002-2007 the Sámi Youth organization in Sweden, Sáminuorra.

Åsa Larsson Blind lives in Övre Soppero in the Swedish part of Sápmi, is part of a reindeer herding family and mother of three children. She holds an MSc in Human Resources Management and Development and works as project manager at the Saami Council.