Dr Hanna Ojanen an expert on European foreign, security and defence policy. She is Adjunct Professor (docent) of international security organisations at the Finnish National Defence University, as well as Adjunct Professor in international relations at the University of Helsinki.
She holds a doctorate in political and social sciences from the European University Institute (EUI, Florence). Her previous positions include Jean Monnet Professor at the University of Tampere (Faculty of Management), Head of Research, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, and Programme Director of the Research Programme on the European Union, Finnish Institute of International Affairs.
She is member in the ECFR Council (European Council on Foreign Relations) and in the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Church(Geneva).
Her recent research has focused on inter-organisational relations (particularly EU-NATO-UN relations) and her book entitled The EU’s Power in Inter-Organisational Relations was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.