Steering Committee
The Steering Committee serves as the main coordinating body of the NDPC. The SC consists of national ministerial representatives from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Sweden, as well as EU representatives.
The Steering Committee formulates the overall policy orientation of the Partnership, ensures political support and continued commitment and decides on issues relating to the NDPC Secretariat, and more.
NDPC chairing country in 2025 is Latvia.
Finland – 2024
Sweden – 2023;
Russia – 2022 (until 3/2022);
Poland – 2021;
Norway – 2020;
Latvia – 2019;
Finland – 2018;
Sweden – 2017;
Russia – 2015/2016;
Poland 2014 – 2015;
Finland 2012 – 2013;
Norway – 2011;
Sweden – 2010.
Steering Committee Members
| Denmark | Ms Rose Sofie Levinsen, Head of Section, Analysis and International Relations, Ministry of Culture |
| Estonia | Ms Anu-Maaja Pallok, Adviser Creative Industries, Ministry of Culture |
| Ms Liina Jänes, Adviser on International Cooperation, Ministry of Culture | |
| Finland | Ms Maija Lummepuro (chair), Senior Ministerial Adviser, Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Education and Culture |
| Ms Marja Joenusva, Finland’s Ambassador for Barents and Northern Dimension | |
| Germany | Ms Mechthild Ermisch, German Federal Foreign Office |
| Iceland | Ms Arna Kristín Einarsdóttir, Director General, Department of Culture and Media, Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs |
| Latvia | Ms Ina Ločmele, Senior Officer, Department of Creative Industries, Ministry of Culture |
| Ms Lāsma Krastiņa-Sidorenko, Head of Creative Industries Department, Ministry of Culture | |
| Lithuania | Ms Daiva Parulskienė, Ministry of Culture |
| Norway | Mr Sverre Miøen, Royal Ministry of Culture |
| Poland | Ms Urszula Ślązak, Director of International Relations Department, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage |
| Ms Anna Woźnicka, Department of International Relations, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (on leave) | |
| Ms Zuzanna Przypkowska, Deputy Director, Department of International Relations, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage | |
| Sweden | Mr Robert Nilsson, Deputy Director, Ministry of Culture |
| European External Action Service | Mr Eduard Auer, Head of Division EURCA.1 (Regional Eastern Partnership, Regional Cooperation and OSCE) |
| Ms Paula Avril Jatariu, Policy Desk Officer, EURCA.1 (Regional Eastern Partnership, Regional Cooperation and OSCE) |
Steering Committee is coordinated by the Head of Secretariat Dace Resele, dace.resele@ndpculture.org
* Since the 8th of March 2022, the European Union, Iceland, and Norway have suspended until further notice all activities of the Northern Dimension policy that involve Russia. Read more.
* Since September 2025, the Northern Dimension policy has ceased. Please note that this has no impact on the NDPC activities, which remain unaltered as a valuable transnational cooperation framework. Read more.