The Sherpa Corps is the backbone of participant experience at Helsinki Geoeconomics Week 2025. Comprising a hand-picked cadre of graduate students, early-career professionals, and rising geoeconomics practitioners, this elite team serves as the intellectual and logistical bridge between speakers, sessions, and strategy.
Selected for their exceptional professionalism, situational fluency, and intellectual versatility, the Sherpas are more than volunteers. They are embedded guides. Each Sherpa is assigned to one or more distinguished speakers or sessions, ensuring seamless support, accurate briefing alignment, and enriched engagement throughout the event.
Their work is vital to the high-level execution of HGW25 and offers them a unique vantage point from which to learn, contribute, and connect at the commanding heights of global economic statecraft.
We are proud to introduce the 2025 Sherpa Corps.
Helsinki Geoeconomics School
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Helsinki Geoeconomics Lab
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Helsinki Geoeconomics Society
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Sven Saxén
Head Sherpa
Farheen Butt
Dewmini Liyanage
Noel Marjomäki
Laurent Misso
Debolina Muna
Sami Musa
Laurita Ngube
Saori Katada
Senior Adviser - Helsinki Geoeconomics Week
Henry Gao
Senior Adviser - Helsinki Geoeconomics Week
William J. Norris
Senior Adviser - Helsinki Geoeconomics Week
Soma Noguchi
Mika Noh
Jaakko Pakarinen
Amjad Sargani
Dale Satre
Pia Seidel
Ivana Situm
Clément Stratmann
Thijmen Vernede