Anna-Kaisa Kähkölä
Ms Kähkölä holds a Master's degree in Forest Ecology from the University of Helsinki (2010). She specializes in tropical silviculture, plantation forestry, climate change, and forest carbon. She has worked for several years in East Africa on topics related to forest value chains, forest management practices, sustainable management of natural forests, forest policy, climate resilience, agroforestry, forest-related advocacy, and reforestation campaigns, as well as general project cycle management and evaluations. She enjoys working at the interface between the development industry and the private sector and has facilitated mutually beneficial relationships between communities and enterprises. Her native language is Finnish, and she is fluent in English with competent skills in Swedish and Kiswahili.