Minda Holm is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), where she has worked in different capacities since 2012. She was between 2018 and 2014 the Editor in Chief of the peer-reviewed Scandinavian academic journal Internasjonal Politikk, and has since 2017 had a monthly newspaper column on international affairs, currently for Klassekampen (before 2020 Dagsavisen).

Holm has been a member of the board of Human Rights House Foundation since 2018. She has also been a member of the board of the Fulbright Alumni Association, and has previously led student groups at Amnesty International, focusing on Russia and Eastern and Central Europe and the Middle East and North Africa. She has worked and/or studied in Russia, Wales, England, US, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Denmark and Egypt.

Holm holds two BAs in Political Science and Post-Soviet Area studies from the University of Oslo and the American University in Cairo, and two MScs in International Relations from London School of Economics and the George Washington University, where she was a Fulbright scholar specialising in International Security Studies. She has as of 2023 a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen, with a thesis on ideology in global politics. Her research expertise is global order and governance, liberalism in global politics historically and at the present time, illiberal, reactionary and far right international ideologies, and questions of sovereignty, morality, and recognition in international affairs. She has also previously worked at Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS).