Curriculum Vitae:
Date of birth:
March 11, 1952
Place of birth:
Tampere, Finland
Citizenship:
Finnish
University education:
- Ph.D., Forest ecology (January 18, 1985)
- Lic.Agr.For., Forest research (May 27, 1982)
- M.Sc., Forest research (May 30, 1977)
- B.Sc. , Silviculture (December 3, 1975)
All at the University of Helsinki
Languages:
Finnish (mother tongue), Swedish, English, German
Professional interests:
Environmental policy, Industrial Ecology, Forest environment, Climate mitigation and adaptation, Biodiversity conservation, Equity and Sustainability in Land Use
Professional occupations:
June 1 (in effect, September 30) 1997 -
Chair of Environmental Science and Policy (full, tenure)
University of Helsinki
September 11, 2001 - September 15, 2002
Senior Research Scientist
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
On leave of absence from the University of Helsinki
September 1, 1990 - September 30, 1997
Senior Research Specialist
Finnish Forest Research Institute
October 14, 1995 - November 10, 1995
Visiting Scientist
University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Marine Sciences
January 1, 1985 - August 31, 1990
Director, Finnish Acidification Research Program (HAPRO)
Ministry of the Environment, Helsinki, Finland
August 1, 1987 -August 8, 1988
Research scholar
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
On leave of absence from the Ministry of the Environment
August 15, 1984 - December 31, 1984
Consultant, Ministry of the Environment
Preparation of the Research Plan for HAPRO
December 1, 1983 - August 14, 1984
Research scientist
Academy of Finland, Committee for Environmental Research
July 1, 1982 - November 30, 1983
Research scholar
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
January 1, 1979 - June 30, 1982
Postgraduate Fellow
Academy of Finland, Commission for Agricultural and Forestry Research
At University of Helsinki, Department of Silviculture
June 10, 1981 - September 15, 1981
Program participant
Young Summer Scientists´ Program
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
October 1, 1978 - December 31, 1978
University Assistant
University of Helsinki, Department of Silviculture
May 1, 1975 - September 30, 1978
Research Assistant
Financed by Foundation for Research of Natural Resources in Finland
University of Helsinki, Department of Silviculture.
Scientific research:
see: Publications
L eadership of scientific research programs:
- Director, Finnish Acidification Research Program (HAPRO)
- HAPRO consisted of about 20 individual research projects during 1990-2004 with the research budget ranging from 5 000 to 150 000 euro. The total a research budget of HAPRO was about 8 million euro.
Teaching experience:
About 25 courses in the field of environmental science and policy for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Helsinki in 1997-2004.
International experience:
Scientific:
- Participation in more than one hundred international scientific seminars, workshops and conferences in 1978-2004.
- Member of editorial board of Environmental Science & Policy.
- Member of the Organising Committee for the XX IUFRO World Congress in Tampere, Finland in 1995.
- Member of the Organising Committee for the 3 rd International Acid Rain Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1995.
- Chairman of the Governing Board of the Bilateral Finnish-Russian research program on acidification in the Kola Peninsula (1990-1995).
- Business trips to more than 20 European countries, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, the US and China.
- UN related:
- Participation in preparations of " Our Common Future ", published in 1989 by the UN World Commission for Environment and Development.
- Member of the Delegation of Finland in the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Converence on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
- Consultancy contracts with UNEP and FAO/ECE during the period 1987-2000 including participation in UNEP Climate Workshops in Slovenia, Croatia and Romania in 1998.
- Other inter-governmental:
- Contribution to drafting the resolutions of Pan-European Ministerial Conferences on Forests in Strasbourg 1990 and in Helsinki 1993.
- Participation in 1993 in the Montreal process for global forest policies.
- Lead Author of the 2 nd Assessment Report of IPCC published in 1995 (IPCC= Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change). Working Group II Chapter 24.
- Member in 1996-1998 of the Consultative Forum on the Environment of the Commission of the EU (DG XI).
- Co-ordinating Lead Author in 1998-2001 in the preparations of the 3 rd assessment report of IPCC. Working Grou III Chapter 4.
- Lead Author in 2002-2004 of Millenium Ecosystem Assessment. Chapter 9..
Non-governmental:
- Staff member of IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, in Laxenburg, Austria) during four periods in 1981-2002.
- Chairman of the Finnish National Member Organization to IIASA, 1998-2001.
- Representative of Finland in the Council of IIASA 1998-2001.
- Chairman of Membership Committee of the Council of IIASA 2000-2001.
- Member of Executive Committee of the Council of IIASA 2000-2001 .
Honours and awards:
- Pfeil-Reisestipendium, November 21, 1986.
Die Forstwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
im Breisgau, BRD.
- Honorary Scholar of IIASA, 2001.
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