Sari Varpama
Sari Varpama (BA Hons., Cert. Mgmt, MSc) works as Executive Director of Demo Finland, a co-operative organisation of Finnish parliamentary parties. Demo Finland facilitates joint projects between its member parties and political movements in developing countries in support of pluralistic democracy. Prior to this, she co-ordinated an international civil society network associated with the Helsinki Process on Globalisation and Democracy, a multi-stakeholder forum initiated by the Finnish and Tanzanian Foreign Ministries. Returning to her country of origin in 2003, she had spent 11 years in the UK working for various NGOs in international campaigning and advocacy posts.