OPENING KEYNOTE – SANNA MARIN: Building for Nordic strength and success

Europe’s relation to Russia was never simple and Finns know it as well as anybody. In Gothenburg, meet Sanna Marin – who, as prime minister, led her nation’s determined step in 2023 to join Nato in the wake of Russia’s Ukraine invasion the year before. Learn where she sees the keys to a successful future for the Nordic region, from a perspective that couldn’t be more holistic.

Geopolitical resilience, energy transition, human rights, social equality, gender ... The range of attention points for Finnish ex-prime minister Sanna Marin is broad, as also reflects in her new role as a strategic councellor with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, the high-profile think tank. (Then, let’s not forget her proven concern for meeting efficiency; her national breakthrough came after a clip of her stern chairing of a Tampere city council session had gone viral in 2016.)

Born in 1985, she entered her prime minister term in 2019 as the then youngest head of government in the world. The first member of her family to study at university, she finished her master’s degree in 2017 after running studies in parallel with various jobs for many years. Meet up to explore Sanna Marin’s take on where we should all direct our efforts to craft the best future for our nations, businesses and citizens.