Staff
Riina Haavisto
I am a sustainable development professional with work experience from academia, start-up world, development cooperation and environmental management. As an environmental economist, my research has focused on climate change adaptation, climate policy and weather and climate risk management across different economic sectors. I've also worked at the intersection of gender equality and climate change in South East Asia and the Caribbean. In my role as a Social Responsibility Coordinator I develop and work with a variety of sustainability topics within administration and research & education, support Hanken in its journey to become carbon neutral by 2030 and coordinate sustainability-related partnerships, networks, events and communication.
City of Helsinki, environmental specialist, Helsinki, Finland 15.3.2023 - 30.4.2023
Environmental reporting, research and event planning to support environmental management within the city of Helsinki.
Third Rock, sustainability specialist, Helsinki, Finland 3.10.2022 - 25.11.2022
Fixed term life cycle assessment and carbon footprint calculation project implementation through Environmental Impacts Academy's LCA program, as well as other sustainability consulting and reporting for Third Rock.
UN Women Multi-Country Office Caribbean, Programme Analyst (Climate Change and DRR), Bridgetown, Barbados 22.9.2021-21.9.2022.
Support for formulation and implementation of climate change, humanitarian action and DRR projects across the Caribbean region.
UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Programme Analyst (Climate Change), Bangkok, Thailand, 22.9.2019-21.9.2021.
Programme management, implementation and development support to the EmPower-programme, including monitoring of results, and lead the work around generation of sex, age, and diversity disaggregated data to inform policy.
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Researcher, Helsinki, Finland 01.01.2015-31.7.2019.
Coordinated and conducted research (interviews, workshops, document reviews and analysis, economic modeling etc.) in multidisciplinary climate change adaptation projects on urban planning, water management, energy, and Arctic resilience.
Kliffa Innovations Oy, Co-founder, Helsinki, Finland 25.8.2015 to 31.8.2019.
Developed an online platform for resource efficient and innovative use of urban spaces.
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Assistant Researcher, Helsinki, Finland 30.9.2013- 31.12.2014
Conducted research and developed a hydro-economic model for payments for watershed services (PWS) scheme in Peru.