Taika

Taika Tikkanen

I started as an intern at Akordi in December 2024. During my internship, I will mainly work on communication tasks and assist in various projects. At the same time, I am working on my Master’s thesis on the nature conservation disputes in the Gulf of Bothnia. I am a fifth year student at Tampere…
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Timo Karjalainen

Timo Karjalainen

Timo is an entrepreneur in the natural resources sector and an environmental sociologist by training. Timo has focused his expertise on various environmental and natural resource projects and disputes. In particular, his work has been related to land, water and fish resource use in Northern Finland,…
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Heidi Kekkonen

Heidi Kekkonen


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Irina NiinivaaraAkordi / Antti Rintala

Irina Niinivaara

I am the Chief Operating Officer of Akordi, joining the team in 2024. My work experience is in responsible business development and environmental management. In the past, I have also been responsible for building company collaboratin platforms with different kinds of industries. I have a master's…
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Minna NäsmanAkordi / Antti Rintala

Minna Näsman

I am the Development Director of Akordi, I joined the team in 2024. I have a decade of business experience in the energy sector and a built up knowledge of communications as a journalist. Before joining Akordi, I built and managed Finland's national hydrogen economy network. I completed my PhD…
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Camilla Strandberg-Panelius

MSc (Environmental Science), Associate Environmental policies, nature conservation
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Sini Lahdenperä

Sini has a master's degree in law. She specialises in drafting legislation and has previously worked at the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Currently Sini is working in the Finnish Immigration Service.
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Juha KotilainenAkordi / Antti Rintala

Juha Kotilainen

Juha Kotilainen works an Associate at Akordi and a researcher in the University of Eastern Finland. Kotilainen has experience in working with issues concerning mining, circular economy, social acceptance and ecological compensation. I graduated in 2016 from the University of Eastern Finland, majoring…
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Anni Kettunen

I work as a Junior Associate in Akordi's team since 2021 and during these years I’ve gained a deeper understanding of interest-based negotiation, its prerequisites, and related opportunities. I’ve worked in various projects related to waters and waterbodies, forests, and wind energy, for example. My…
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Juha-Pekka TurunenAkordi / Antti Rintala

Juha-Pekka Turunen

Juha-Pekka Turunen has a Master's degree in Science (Agriculture and Forestry) and over 25 years of experience is stakeholder engagement ja communication.
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Lasse Peltonen

Lasse Peltonen is the co-founder of Akordi and the Chairman of the Board. I have been intrigued by conflicts environmental conflicts since my graduate studies in Environmental policy at University of Tampere, where I received a Master's degree in 1998 and a Doctorate in 2003. Since then, I have worked…
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Emma LuomaAkordi / Antti Rintala

Emma Luoma

My educational background is in environmental politics and regional studies as I have a master's degree on Administrative Studies from the University on Tampere. For my master thesis I studied the collaborative process of making a strategic forest program for the city of Jyväskylä. I am interested…
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Jonna KangasojaAkordi / Antti Rintala

Jonna Kangasoja

Jonna Kangasoja is Co-Founder and CEO at Akordi. She has received her negotiation, conflict management and mediation training at Harvard Program on Negotiation and at MIT with Lawrence Susskind. She is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), and Finnish Association of Facilitators…
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