Saara is the Programme Officer (Fellowship Experience) for the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme. She leads on the delivery, operations, and implementation of the programme’ fellowship experience (FE), including all aspects of programme administration and delivery from recruitment, selection, admissions, onboarding, and delivery of the FE up to completion.
Previously, Saara was the Senior Grants Officer at Media Defence. She coordinated their emergency defence grants and funded partners programmes. Saara has also worked as an International Relations Assistant for Imperial College London, and as a Project Coordinator for Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki.
Saara has an undergraduate degree in Political History from University of Helsinki and Master's degree in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics from UCL.