Dr Anna-Liisa Heusala is a Finnish political scientist who works as a university lecturer in the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. She has been an adjunct professor in the Finnish National Defence University since 2010.  Her research focuses on Russian comprehensive security and public administration.  Her works include publications in Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Review of Central and East European Law and Journal on Baltic Security.