Nauja Bianco (pronounced Naya) is a native Greenlander, born and raised in the capital Nuuk. Ms. Bianco currently lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has lived in in Brussels, Belgium (2006-2010), and Toronto, Canada (2017-2019). She works as an independent consultant working with and for the Arctic and the North.

Ms. Bianco has a major in political science from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Sciences-Politique in Lille, France. The first 15 years Ms. Bianco’s career was within government, diplomacy, international relations, and foreign- and security policy working for the Government of Greenland, as a diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and a senior adviser in the intergovernmental organization the Nordic Council of Ministers (cooperation between Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland along with Greenland, Faroe Islands and Åland).

While living in Toronto 2017-2019 Ms. Bianco became an independent consultant (Isuma Consulting) doing strategic advisory work within Arctic and Nordic affairs and freelance journalism/communication. In 2020-2023 Ms. Bianco was the CEO of the North Atlantic House (cultural house) and the Greenlandic House (working with Greenlandic Inuit in Denmark and Greenland in Denmark overall) in Odense, Denmark. Per September 1, 2023, Ms. Bianco revived Isuma Consulting and is now an independent consultant advising on Greenland/the Arctic/the North and working as an active Member of the Board of Directors for the Canadian mining company Greenland Resources Inc.

Ms. Bianco’s overall area of expertise is facilitating cooperation in the Arctic and the Nordic countries on policy, governance, arts, and culture. Being a global Greenlander, working for creating added value for the Arctic, the Nordics, and the trans-Atlantic bonds has always been an ambition. She focuses on the need of connecting the dots - initiatives, governments, businesses as well as people – through many means.