Timothy Heleniak is a Senior Research Fellow at Nordregio, the Nordic Centre for Spatial Development in Stockholm, Sweden. He has a PhD in Geography and does research on migration, population change, and regional development in the Nordic region and the Arctic. He previously worked at the World Bank, UNICEF, the U.S. Census Bureau, and Georgetown University. He is currently working on an NSF-funded project titled 'Polar Peoples: Past, Present, and Future'. He was formerly the editor of the journal, Polar Geography, and is currently the Series Editor, Routledge Research in Polar Regions.