Dr. Sanna Salo

Sanna Salo is an Academy of Finland post-doctoral fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. She earned her PhD in 2017 from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and has since worked at the Universities of Stockholm and Helsinki.

Salo’s field of expertise is comparative European politics, especially the Nordic countries and, most recently, Germany. Her recent research has focused on the European center-left and center-right parties’ strategies towards the rising radical right. Together with Professor Jens Rydgren (Stockholm University) she has published a book titled The Battle Over Working-Class Voters: How Social Democracy Has Responded to the Populist Radical Right in the Nordic Countries (2021), which studies the responses of Nordic labor movements to the rise of the radical right in the region.

At the WZB, Sanna Salo will work on finalizing her Academy of Finland project and the start-up phase of her future, Kone Foundation-funded project titled Divided and Lost? The Strategies of Center-Right Parties to the Radical Right Challenge in Finland, Sweden and Germany.