Speakers Petteri Portaankorva, City of Kouvola23.07.2019M.Sc. (Civ.Eng.) and M.Sc. (Econ.& BA) Petteri Portaankorva is working for the City of Kouvola as a development director. He has a wide experience especially in transport and intelligent transport systems both in private and public sector since late 1980’s. Nowadays his work deals with economic development and vitality of the city, public affairs and strategic co-operation, business and university co-operation, urban policy and transport system development. He is responsible for the certain strategic development projects of the city.... Read more...Mona Mansour, North Sweden European Office (Brussels)01.07.2019Mona Mansour is Senior Adviser European Affairs at North Sweden European Office in Brussels. Mona Mansour is responsible for Internal Market issues including EU-transport policy. She has over 20 years of working experience with EU Affairs, previously as EU Specialist/Senior Consultant at leading global consulting firms.... Read more...Arja Suominen, Finnair10.06.2019Arja Suominen is the Senior Vice President for Communications and Corporate responsibility at Finnair, and her team is heading Finnair’s responsibility actions, that are increasingly important as consumers and governments alike expect more actions from airlines to reduce the CO2 im-pact of commercial aviation. Arja has extensive experience of managing communications and corporate responsibility in an international and fast changing environment – for the past 8 years at Finnair, and prior to that, as the head of Nokia’s global communications organisation.... Read more...Tero Kosonen, VR Transpoint28.05.2019Tero Kosonen, M. Sc, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, VR-Group Ltd, VR Transpoint. He has a long history in expert and management positions in rail logistics. He has been responsible for infrastructure consulting and planning, production and sales of railway freight operations during his career. Kosonen is a member of the Confederation of Finnish Industries' (EK) logistics committee. He is also the leader of the Finnish delegation of the freight working group between VR Group and RZD. VR Transpoint is an experienced, diversified and skilled logistics provider – both on rail and road. We offer rail logistics as well as national and international road logistics services to answer the heavy industry’s needs – transportation of mass goods is what we do best. We also provide diverse rail logistics export, import and transit transports and related added value services. ... Read more...Ari Herrala, Finnish Transport and Logistics SKAL27.05.2019Ari Herrala works as Lobbying Director at the Finnish Transport and Logistics organization SKAL. He also has many roles in the representative EU Commission groups, f.ex Monitoring of Implementation of Digital Tachograph and Driving Licence Committee and Technical Expert Group. He represents Finland in the CORTE Confederation of Organisations in Road Transport Enforcement. ... Read more...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...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 Parliament17.01.2019Merja Kyllönen was Finland´s Minister of Transport in 2011-2014 and Member of the Parliament in 2007-2014, she was re-elected in 2019. From 2014 to 2019 Kyllönen was a member of the European Parliament, where she concentrated on subjects of transport, climate and energy. She was also member of Committee on Transport and Tourism and member of Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.... 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...Murat Nurtleuov, Embassy of Kazakhstan to Finland12.01.2018... Read more...Nancy Li, Scand-China International Link12.01.2018Nancy Li is the General Director of Scand-China International Link Oy in Finland. She is also Senior Advisor and representative of Kouvola Innovation Oy in the Railgate Finland China Express operation in China.... Read more...
