Expert Bio

Rickard Lindholm is a staff assistant intern for the Global Europe program at the Wilson Center. His main areas of interest include foreign and security policy, democratic resilience, hybrid threats and elections.

He holds a master’s degree in political science from Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland and has previously studied international politics at KU Leuven, Belgium. He holds professional experience from the Secretariat of the Security Committee of the Finnish government, where he worked with societal resilience and comprehensive security policy.

Rickard speaks English, Swedish and Finnish, as well as some German, Dutch and Norwegian.