Walter Joseph Hickel
General Secretary of the Northern Forum 1997-2010
After the main Secretariat of the Northern Forum was opened in anchorage, Alaska, USA), branches of the Secretariat – in Bodo (Norway), in Rovaniemi (Lapland, Finland), in Yakutsk (Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia) and in St. Petersburg (Russia). In recent years, there have been two innovations in the structure of the organization concerning former presidents northern forum. Thus, in 1994 the post of General Secretary of the Northern Forum was introduced, in 2001 an Advisory Council was established. Mr. Walter Hickel became General Secretary. The Advisory Board automatically includes the former chairmen of the Northern Forum – W. Hickel, M. E. Nikolaev.
Sigbjørn Eriksen
Chairman of the Northern Forum 1994-1997
Mayor of Nordland Province, Norway 1984-1997
Mikhail Yefimovich Nikolayev
Chairman of the Northern Forum 1997-2001
President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia 1991-2001
Hannele Pokka
Chairman of the Northern Forum 2001-2005
Governor of Lapland Province, Finland 1994-2008
Alexander Filipenko
Chairman of the Northern Forum 2005-2009
Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
Yegor Afanasyevich Borisov
Chairman of the Northern Forum 2011-2015
President of the Republic of Saha (Yakutia), Russia 2010-2018
Viktor Tolokonsky
Chairman of the Northern Forum 2015-2017
Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia 2014 - 2017
Alexander Tsybulsky
Chairman of the Northern Forum 2018 - to the present
Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug
