Heli Hautala

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Program

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Heli Hautala is an Adjunct Senior Fellow for the Transatlantic Security Program. She specializes in Northern European security and in Russia. Heli joined the Finnish Foreign Service in 2004. She has served several times at the Embassy of Finland in Moscow and has worked as NATO Team Leader at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. During her career Heli has also worked with trade policy, both at the Ministry and in Geneva.

Heli earned her Master of Political Sciences from the Swedish-speaking Åbo Akademi University in Finland and a Master of Laws from the University of Toronto.

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Press Release
- October 31, 2023
New CNAS Report: Assessing the Evolving Russian Nuclear Threat
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Michael Kofman, Nicholas Lokker & Heli Hautala
Reports
- October 31, 2023
Assessing the Evolving Russian Nuclear Threat
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Michael Kofman, Nicholas Lokker & Heli Hautala
Commentary
- War on the Rocks
- March 30, 2023
Russia Won’t Sit Idly by After Finland and Sweden Join NATO
By Nicholas Lokker & Heli Hautala
Press Release
- February 16, 2023
CNAS Responds: One Year of War in Ukraine
By Richard Fontaine, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Heli Hautala, Jon B. Wolfsthal, Emily Kilcrease, Jonathan Lord, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Jacob Stokes, Nicholas Lokker, Hannah Dennis & Michael Akopian
Press Release
- January 24, 2023
How Finnish and Swedish NATO Accession Could Shape the Future Russian Threat
By Nicholas Lokker, Jim Townsend, Heli Hautala & Andrea Kendall-Taylor