Anu Juvonen
Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Civil Society, Executive Director of DEMO Finland
Anu Juvonen is the Executive Director of Demo Finland – Political Parties of Finland for Democracy, an impartial multiparty democracy support organization involving all of Finland’s nine parliamentary parties. She was seconded by Finland to the Council of Europe as a Policy Advisor (2021–2024) on democracy, specifically on civil society matters. Anu Juvonen is also the President of the European Partnership for Democracy’s (EPD) and a member of the Human Rights Delegation of the Finnish National Human Rights Institute (NHRI). She has worked for over 20 years in the field of democracy support, development policy and international affairs mainly in CSO’s, working and living in Nepal, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia among other countries, and holds both MA and BA (Hons) degrees from the University of Sussex, UK.