Bodo Steiner is Professor of Food Economics & Business Management, Head of the research group Management & Organizations For Sustainable Food Systems, Deputy director at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki, and Coordinator of MATS, a research and innovation action project, funded by the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. He is affiliated with the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), the Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies (URBARIA), the Helsinki Inequality Initiative (INEQ), the InterTran Research Group for Sustainable Law and Business at the University of Helsinki (INTERTRAN), the Sustainable Change Research Network (SUCH), the Finnish Organic Research Institute (FORI), the Task Force of the Finnish National Food Research Strategy, and serves as advisory board member for the Institute for the Economy for the Common Good, and as member of the Environmental Footprint Technical Advisory Board of the European Commission.
He earned his PhD from the University of Reading and has previously held faculty and visiting appointments at the University of California Berkeley, University of Alberta, University College Cork, University of Southern Denmark, University of Kiel, and Beijing Normal University.
His recent research and teaching interests focus on mixed methods to address organizational sustainability, in particular social capital, social sustainability in food systems and value chains, and circular economy strategies. His work has been published by MIT Press, The Economist, and journals including Ecological Economics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Regional Studies, European Journal of Political Economy, Food Policy, Economic Record, European Journal of Marketing, and the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.
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Dr. Cyrielle Gaglio is a postdoctoral researcher in Economics. Before joining the University of Helsinki, she earned a research fellow contract at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) under the Chair in Transformative Innovation and she previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po-OFCE, a French research institute whose activities focus on economic research, forecasting and the evaluation of public policies. She received a PhD in Economics from the Université Côte d’Azur (France), in 2017. She has teaching experience in microeconomics, statistics, growth models and core economics. Her main research interests include international economics/trade, digital economy, and industrial economics.
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Inna Makarenko, Dr. of Sci. (in Economics), Professor, Visiting Researcher at the Department of Economics and Management, MSCA4 Ukraine Fellow.
Inna has a Ph.D. in Finance, Dr. of Sci. Degree in Accounting and Audit, Master's Degree in Accounting and Audit, Master's degree in High School Pedagogy and ACCA Dip IFR certificate as a professional in international financial reporting standards.
She is a member of the editorial board in the journals Agriculture and Resource Economics, Banks and Bank system, and Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks.
Inna also provides a review for the Journal of Economic Studies, Agriculture and Resource Economics, Problem and Perspectives in Management.
She acts as a member of European Accounting Association, European Academy of Management and full member professional accountant of Chamber of Accountants and Auditors of Ukraine.
She was a project leader in 2 national R&D funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, a Deputy Leader in 1 R&D project, and several international grants (ERASMUS-JMO-2022-MODULE ERASMUS2027 101085395 TARGETS and Ukrainian-Austrian bilateral grant).
Inna participates in 4 international internships and three virtual mobility programs. She is an author of more than 200 scientific works, including 30 articles indexed in peer-reviewed journals and 17 intellectual property documents.
In 2023 Inna received the Academy of Finland mobility grant (Decision number 353888) and MSCA for Ukraine Fellowship (Grant number 1233713 funded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) in cooperation with Prof. Bodo Steiner (University of Helsinki). Her current research devoted to achieving Sustainable Development Goals progress through an integrated cross-sectoral analysis of banking and agri-food on sustainability reporting transparency.
Dr. Stefano Ghinoi is a Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Comunicazione ed Economia, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia (http://personale.unimore.it/Rubrica/dettaglio/sghinoi). Previously he was a Senior Lecturer in Economic Sociology at the Department of Economics and International Business, University of Greenwich. Before joining the University of Greenwich, he worked as a post-doc researcher at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and the University of Bologna (Italy). He received a PhD in Economic Statistics from the University of Bologna, Department of Statistical Sciences, in 2016. He worked as a consultant for private companies and public authorities in Italy and other European countries, and he has teaching experience in Microeconomics, Statistics, and Social Network Analysis. His main research interests include economics of innovation, sustainability and climate change, organizational networks, and policy evaluation.
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Dr. Imbrogiano joined the Department of Economics and Management in summer of 2020, after finalizing his PhD thesis at the Sustainable Minerals Institute of the University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests lie in the sustainability performance in businesses, the governance of business sustainability (i.e. the practices of sustainability standard setters and sustainable supply chain managers, amongst others), and in social-cultural foundations of (un-)sustainable development. Before pursuing his research interests, Jean-Pierre worked for Intertek in Germany and for the German development cooperation (GIZ) in Mongolia.
Selected publications:
Imbrogiano, J.-P. (2020). Contingency in business sustainability research and in the sustainability service industry: A problematization and research agenda. Organization & Environment. doi: 10.1177/1086026619897532
Imbrogiano, J.-P. (2024). De-anthropocentrification now: A call for problematizing revisions of human-animal positions in social thought. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 20(1): 2366620.
Imbrogiano, J.-P., Steiner, B., Mori Junior, R., Sturman, K. (2023). What enables metals ‘being’ ‘responsible’? An exploratory study on the enabling of organizational identity claims through a new sustainability standard. Resources Policy, 103619.
Imbrogiano, J.-P. (2023). Understanding sustainability performance in business organizations: Implications for the sustainability service industry. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Dr. Lombardini’s research focuses on sustainable food systems and social norms and uses the tools of behavioural and experimental economics and cost-benefit analysis. She is currently active in Leg4Life project (Legumes for Sustainable Food System and Healthy Life), which explores the role of domestic legumes as a key component of a more sustainable food system.
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Selected publications:
Smed, S., Lombardini C., Lankoski L. (2022 - forthcoming). Who reacts to food taxes? How a multiple-selves model can help to explain the effects of food taxes, in A Modern Guide to Food Economics, edited by Roosen, J. and Hobbs J. E., Elgar Modern Guides.
Salmivaara, L., Lombardini, C., & Lankoski, L. (2021). Examining social norms among other motives for sustainable food choice: The promise of descriptive norms. Journal of Cleaner Production, 311 doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127508
Lombardini, C., & Lankoski, L. (2013). Forced choice restriction in promoting sustainable food consumption: Intended and unintended effects of the mandatory vegetarian day in Helsinki schools. Journal of Consumer Policy, 36(2), 159-178. doi:10.1007/s10603-013-9221-5
Helena Ponstein has a focus on the wine value chain and metrics-based sustainability. She holds a PhD on the avoidance of GHG emissions from global food value chains from the Faculty of Life Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Fredrik Salenius is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Economics and Management. He currently works on topics in food economics, business management, and agriculture. His previous research has focused on questions in fisheries economics, especially in the context of international fisheries, which he has tackled by econometric methods and bioeconomic modeling. He holds an Msc in environmental economics from the University of Helsinki. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Iceland in 2021.
Dr. Riccardo De Vita is visiting scholar at the Centre for Business Network Analysis, University of Greenwich, London. After starting his career at Universita’ Carlo Cattaneo (LIUC) in Italy, Riccardo moved to the University of Greenwich in 2009 to join the Center for Business Network Analysis. Over the years he developed extensive teaching and managerial experience. He was appointed Head of Department in 2015, after having successfully led the largest post-graduate programme in the University. Riccardo employs Social Network Analysis, often in conjunction with other methodologies, to study organizations and innovation
generation. He is regularly involved in the delivery of methodological training and commissioned research, which he carries out in different countries in the world and in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders.
Dr. Waichman is a behavioral economist who is using controlled experiments to study issues mainly related to environmental economics and sustainability as well as to public economics and industrial organization.
Brian Wink is Head of Psychology (School of Sport, Health and Social Sciences), Southampton Solent University. He is interested in how our perception of the world and our beliefs about it influence our behaviour. He holds both an undergraduate degree and a PhD in psychology from the University of Reading. He lectured at the University of Wolverhampton for over 10 years before taking up his current position as head of psychology at Southampton Solent University. He has developed and delivers a positive psychology based programme, emphasising the importance of our perceptions, which has been shown to increase psychological wellbeing in the workplace. He also provides consultancy on Q methodology, a factor analysis based technique for identifying common perspectives from participants, which can be effectively employed in evaluation.
Common research interests with the Food Economics and Business Management research group: ecological worldview, evolved psychological mechanisms (biases), dual process model, self-determination theory, automatic/implicit/explicit processing, cultural values, attitudes and subjectivity
Khalid Al Matrushi has a master degree from the University of Hull, UK, and joined the University of Helsinki in summer 2020 as a doctoral student at the Department of Economics and Management. In his research, he explores the vulnerabilities in supply chains, and how synergies in supply chain management practices be best measured and utilized, especially in electricity sectors, to enhance the supply chain resilience and sustainability. Previously to his doctoral study, Khalid has worked for the Majan Electricity Company (Oman) as a Head of Procurement
Ehsan Gale-Gafi is a doctoral candidate in the Doctoral Programme of Food Chain and Health at the University of Helsinki. His research focuses on optimizing closed-loop supply chains in the Finnish food industry, specifically targeting bread, chicken, and vegetable sectors. He is committed to enhancing the sustainability and efficiency of these supply chains through innovative modeling and optimization techniques. His work aims to bridge the gap between academia and industry by developing practical solutions that contribute to a more sustainable and resilient food system. Additionally, he is involved in entrepreneurship and innovation initiatives, fostering collaboration between researchers and early-stage entrepreneurs.
Hannele Suvanto is a researcher at the University of Helsinki's Ruralia Institute in Seinäjoki. Her research interests are in management of business relationships in food supply chains. Her current researches investigates trust and communication in business relationships, entrepreneurial orientation of farmers and short food supply chains in the rural areas. She aims to contribute toward a better understanding of managerial, economic and behavioural factors of actors in the food chains.
Kenza is completing a doctoral degree in the Doctoral Programme in Food Chain and Health, within the Dept. of Economics & Management (supervisor: Prof. Steiner). Her work focuses on the quality of sustainability reporting of agri-food and banking businesses in the Nordic Countries.
Narta Voca is completing a doctoral degree in the Doctoral Programme in Food Chain and Health, within the Dept. of Economics & Management (supervisor: Prof. Steiner). Her research interests focus on food quality and sustainability in agri-food value chains (food labeling and authentication practices in Balkan countries). Through her research, she intends to build bridges between academia and the food industry, to create further networks between agri-food chain actors, thereby contributing towards more sustainable food systems.
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Kateryna is a Master’s student in the Agricultural, Environmental and Resource Economics Program at the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. Working as the research assistant at the MATS project, helping with finalization of case studies reports and publications. She is particularly interested in Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) and Circular Economy.