Anna Storgårds

Internationally oriented professional working for sustainable careers

Anna Storgårds is a Career counsellor at the University of Helsinki. She has worked with internationalization and employability issues in higher education for nearly twenty years. Anna especially focuses on supporting international students' employability in the Finnish labour market. She manages the HelsinkiUNI International Talent Programme (group mentoring) and runs career management workshops in the UH international traineeship programme. Together with industry partners, she is developing innovative ways for students to collaborate with employers. Anna has taken part in creating an application and guidance tool for soft skills recognition, SkillMill.

Anna holds an MA in Sociology, focusing on ethnic relations, from the University of Helsinki. She has extensive personal international experience, having lived in seven countries besides Finland. In addition to presenting at EAIE, she has been a speaker in international networks such as EURIE and APAIE. Anna is an associate partner in the Employability Expert Community 2022-2024.