Speakers Jarkko Rantala, WSP Finland Oy29.03.2019D.Sc. (Tech.) Jarkko Rantala is working at WSP Finland Oy as a business unit manager in Business & Logistics business area. He has a long career in academic research and education at Tampere University of Technology, where he was acting as a professor in transportation systems and logistics. He has also background in leadership of sales and business areas in trucks and construction equipment, and as a leading expert in logistics in consultancy companies. His greatest professional passions are freight transports, transport demands in diverse businesses and the development of logistics concepts and related business models. ... Read more...Juha Kenraali, Traficom14.03.2019Juha Kenraali works in Finnish Transport and Communications Agengy Traficom, responsible for e.g. data issues and market based transport pilots. Previously worked in pharmaceutical industry, Finnish Customs and Ministry of Finance. Master Degree in Statistics. ... Read more...Mona Mansour, North Sweden European Office22.02.2019Mona Mansour is Senior Adviser European Affairs at North Sweden European Office in Brussels. Mona is responsible for Internal Market issues including EU-transport policy. Mona has over 20 years of working experience with EU Affairs, previously as EU Specialist/Senior Consultant at leading global consulting firms.... Read more...Antti Pursiainen, VR Transpoint20.02.2019Antti Pursiainen is the Sales Director, railway logistics Russia and CIS countries at VR Transpoint. Antti has 20 years’ experience of sales management from several business areas in Russia and CIS-countries. ... Read more...Martti Husu, Kouvola Innovation Oy08.02.2019Martti Husu is the Managing Director of Kouvola Innovation Oy. On top of leading the company, his main operations are stakeholder co-operation and international business. He is strongly involved in the development of the North Europe – Asia container train connection.... Read more...Jakub Jakóbowski, Center for Eastern Studies (OSW)08.02.2019Jakub Jakóbowski – Senior Fellow at the China-EU Programme in the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), a public think-tank based in Warsaw, Poland. PhD. Candidate at the Collegium for Socio-Economics, Warsaw School of Economics. He specializes in China’s international political economy, as well as CEE-China and EU-China relations. Author of the recent The Silk Railroad. The EU-China rail connections: background, actors, interests' report.... Read more...Anu Kujansuu, Kouvola Cargo Handling Oy25.01.2019Anu Kujansuu is the Marketing Director of Kouvola Cargo Handling Oy, the company in charge of China block train sales, train loading and documentation in Finland. Kujansuu is responsible for the key account management on the Kouvola-Xi’an route. Kujansuu has over 20 years’ working experience from freight forwarding and Customs procedures.... Read more...Merja Kyllönen, Member of the European Parliament17.01.2019As a member of European Parliament, Merja Kyllönen has concentrated on subjects of transport, climate and energy. Kyllönen is member of Committee on Transport and Tourism and member of Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. She is also substitute of Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and also substitute of Delegation for relations with Japan. Merja Kyllönen was Finland´s Minister of Transport in 2011-2014, member of Finland´s Parliament 2007-2014 and she has been member of municipal council in Suomussalmi since 2000.... Read more...Almat Karimov, NZ Kazakhstan Railways JSC17.01.2019Almat Karimov, Vice President, NZ Kazakhstan Railways JSC... Read more...Marita Toikka, Mayor of Kouvola16.01.2018Marita Toikka is the Mayor of Kouvola since 2017. She has a master’s degree in law and a long experience in Municipal Administration. She has previously worked for the Cities of Imatra and Lappeenranta. Marita Toikka is an active spokesperson for the City of Kouvola and promoter of the unique North European logistics centre. ... Read more...
