Tiimi Archive - Akordi

Sara Vanhanen

I joined Akordi as a project worker in May 2025. My main tasks include communication tasks and assisting in various projects at Akordi. I graduated with a Master of Social Sciences degree from the University of Helsinki in Spring 2025. In my thesis I examined the wind power conflict in Fosen, Norway,…

Camilla Strandberg-Panelius

Environmental Policy and Nature Conservation

Taika Tikkanen

I started as an intern at Akordi in December 2024 after which I continued working at Akordi as a Communications Specialist. I 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 Kvarken archipelago. I…

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,…

Heidi Kekkonen

Akordi / Antti Rintala

Irina Niinivaara

I am the Chief Operating Officer of Akordi, joining the team in 2024. I bring to the team my expertise in responsible business, management systems and network management. I also have experience in building platform partnerships with companies. I have a master's degree in recycling engineering. At…

Akordi / 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…

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.

Akordi / Antti Rintala

Juha Kotilainen

I am an Expert 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 dissertation,…

Anni Kettunen

I work as an 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 educational…

Akordi / 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…

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…

Akordi / 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…

Akordi / 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…