Executive Steering Committee

Mr. Pasi Rutanen
Former Ambassador of Finland to OECD and to the Peoples Republic of China

Mr. Rutanen has had a long and distinguished international career both as a journalist and as a diplomat. He has served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of Finland and he is also the former Ambassador of Finland to China, to the OECD in Paris as well as to Southeast Asia. He was the first correspondent of the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation to Washington, D.C.

Mr. Rutanen has written numerous articles and six books dealing with international political and economic questions, including the Pacific Basin and China. His specialty is globalisation, and he is a well-known expert on issues concerning China, East Asia and the Trans-Pacific area. He is an expert in advising companies that are going through internationalisation. Mr. Rutanen is currently based in Paris and travels extensively between China and the United States.




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Mr Alec Arho Havrén
Founder

Mrs Sari Arho Havrén
Co-founder, Executive Director

Dr Niclas Ihrén
Sustainability Expert, Advisor to Tällberg Foundation, Global Utmaning and the World Ecological Forum

Ms Anna Hrdlicka
Licentiate of Technology in Real Estate Economics

Bishop Lennart Koskinen
Lutheran Church of Sweden

Mr Alfred Kwok
Co-founder, Savantas Policy Institute, Hong Kong

Mr Tomas Otterström
Deputy CEO at GreenStream Network Plc

Mrs Marianne Samuelsson
former governor of Gotland (Environmental/Green party)

Professor Derek Shearer
former US Ambassador to Finland and professor at Occidental University

Ms. Saara Kankaanrinta
Secretary-General of BSAG, Content Leader of Baltic Sea Action Summit 2010

Professor Kai Wartiainen
Architect, Creative Director, Pöyry Architects

Dr Po Chi Wu
Visiting Professor and Co-founding Executive Director of the Global Innovation Research Center, Peking University and Co-founder and Managing Director of DragonBridge Capital, California, USA

Mr. Pasi Rutanen
Former Ambassador of Finland to OECD and to the Peoples Republic of China

Ms. Carola Wictorsson
Marketing Director, Jyvaskyla Innovation

Ms. Doris Kwan
CEO, Brainworks Asia Ltd.

Charles Gloor
Co-founder and Managing Director of Birgli