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​Dr. Sanna Kopra is an Academy of Finland post-doctoral researcher  in the Arctic Centre at University of Lapland, a visiting scholar in Aleksanteri Institute at University of Helsinki, and a Senior Fellow at the Arctic Institute.  Her research focuses on global environmental politics, international norms of responsibility,  and  geopolitics of the Arctic.  As the author of China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change and a co-editor of Chinese Policy and Presence in the Arctic, Kopra is most known for her research on China's Arctic and climate policy.  

Dr. Kopra's current project "The Rise of China and Normative Transformation in the  Arctic Region" is funded by the Academy of Finland, a major Finnish funding agency for academic research.  
In 2018, Kopra received the International Studies Association (ISA) English School Section’s Outstanding Research Paper Award for her work “China and international climate responsibility: Agency and Institutional Change”,  which was first presented at the ISA 2017 conference.