Else Grete Broderstad is the Academic Director at the Centre for Sami Studies at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway. She is part of the cross-disciplinary project TUNDRA, where she focuses on circumpolar governance arrangements, indigenous rights, and political participation. She is primarily interested in political procedures and rights governing the relationship between indigenous minorities and non-indigenous majorities.

In her most recent publication, “Cross-border Reindeer Husbandry: Between Ancient Usage Rights and State Sovereignty,” in The Proposed Nordic Saami Convention. National and International Dimensions of Indigenous Property Rights, edited by Nigel Bankes and Timo Koivurova (Hart Publishing, 2013), she discusses the problems of reaching an agreement between Norway and Sweden on the cross-border reindeer husbandry management.