Åsa Larsson Blind is vice-president of the Saami Council. She has been a member of the Saami Council since 2008 and was elected President in the period 2017-2019. She was, as the first female, elected chair of the National Sámi Association in Sweden 2019-2021. 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. Larsson Blind is born and raised in a reindeer herding family and holds a Master's Degree 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. 

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