Samo Pohja

I am an intern at Akordi since January 2026. During my internship, I am learning about conflicts related to zoning and energy projects. I will map out zoning projects in Ostrobothnia and compile an overview of them for both stakeholders and Akordi. I will also write my master's thesis on this topic,…
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Thomas Banafa

I joined the company in 2025 as the Business Director. Previously I have worked as an entrepreneur and a consultant specializing in flood risk management planning; I also collaborated with Akordi as an external expert in 2019–2021. I am writing my doctoral thesis at Aalto University on the topic of…
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Camilla Strandberg-Panelius

Environmental Policy and Nature Conservation
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Taika Tikkanen

I started at Akordi as an intern in December 2024, after which I took the role of a communications specialist. I am mainly responsible for Akordi's communications, but I also work on various projects. For example, I am involved in the production of our trainings and in the interaction tasks of the JustH2Transit…
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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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Minna NäsmanAkordi / Antti Rintala

Minna Näsman

I am a specialist at Akordi, joining the team in 2024. I have a decade of business experience in the energy sector and expertise in communications gained as a journalist. Before joining Akordi, I built and managed a national hydrogen network for public actors in Finland. I wrote my doctoral thesis…
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Juha KotilainenAkordi / Antti Rintala

Juha Kotilainen

I am a Specialist and Associate at Akordi, where I have been part of the team since 2017. My academic background is in the collaborative governance of natural resources, which was also the focus of my doctoral dissertation, Emerging Forms of Collaborative Mineral Governance, completed in 2024. In my…
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Juha-Pekka TurunenAkordi / Antti Rintala

Juha-Pekka Turunen

Juha-Pekka holds a Master's degree in Agriculture and Forestry and has 25 years of experience in interactive design, planning and implementation of interaction and communication in challenging design and preparation processes, and operating in various conflict situations. Juha-Pekka has also completed…
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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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