Åsa Larsson Blind is vice-president of the Saami Council. She has been a member of the Saami Council since 2008 and was elected President in the period 2017-2019. She was, as the first female, elected chair of the National Sámi Association in Sweden 2019-2021. Larsson Blind was 2011-2015 the Saami Council board member of IPS, Indigenous Peoples Secretariat, and served also in that period as the HoD for Saami Council at Arctic Council SAO meetings.