Professor of Futures Studies, Dr. Markku Wilenius
Finland Futures Research Centre,
Turku School of Economics
Rehtorinpellonkatu 3, 20500 Turku, Finland
Email:
markku.wilenius@tse.fi
Markku Wilenius has acted as Director of the Finland Futures Research Centre in 1999-2001, as Research Director in 2002-2003 and again as Director starting from August 1, 2003. He was nominated as Professor of Futures Studies at the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration on November 14, 2003. Markku Wilenius is also Docent in the University of Helsinki.
Markku Wilenius' interests in research and development focus on the development of the society and foreseeing of development, visionary and strategic management of organisations in terms of their competence building as a way to "futurise" them, and sustainable development. Currently he is finalising a book on creative economy and the meaning of cultural know-how, named "Cultural Competence as a Component of National Competitiveness".
In October 2002 he was appointed as associate member to the Club of Rome and he acts as the Chairman of the Finnish Association for the Club of Rome. He is also a member of Finnish Government's Committee for Sustainable Development, and he has also acted as a chairman in the committee, nominated by CSD, that prepared the national agenda of Finland for the UN summit meeting in Johannesburg 2002. Wilenius has also acted as member of the executive committee of the Finnish Consumer Agency.
http://www.tukkk.fi/tutu/personnel.asp >> Wilenius
Factor 10 Institute
Carrère des Bravengues; F-83660 Carnoules, France
Fax: +33 (0) 494 332 458
Between 1992 and 1997 Professor Schmidt-Bleek worked as a Vice-President of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy in Germany. He is now member of the international Factor 10 Club and president of the Factor 10 Institute in Carnoules, France.
Professor Schmidt-Bleek was the winner of the Takeda World Environmental Award 2001 together with Ernst-Ulrich von Weizsäcker.
Nokia Oyj
Keilalahdentie 4, 02150 Espoo
Box 226, 00045 NOKIA GROUP
Email: erkki.ormala@nokia.com
Dr. Ormala had his M.Eng. degree in 1974 and his Dr.Tech. degree in 1986 from the Helsinki University of Technology.
He worked as a research engineer at the Technical Research Centre of Finland 1974-1987. In 1967 he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University in the USA and in 1982 at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. 1987-1999 he was the Secretary of the Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland. The Council is chaired by the Prime Minister with the task to give advice to the Government and administration in issues related to science, technology and innovation policies. In 1999 he joined the Nokia Group as Director, Technology Policy. At Nokia his responsibilities cover technology policy, knowledge management, university co-operation, future watch and issues relating to information society.
Dr. Ormala has published over forty papers on evaluation and innovation policies. He has been a consultant to a number of industrial companies, international organisations and European governments. In 1992-1993 he chaired the international expert group which carried out the evaluation of EUREKA. Since 1994 he has been a member of the evaluation and monitoring panels of the EU RT&D programmes. In 1996-1999 he was the chairman of the OECD Working Group for Technology and Innovation Policy.
Box 474, 33101 Tampere, Finland
Email:
arto.timperi@fi.timberjack.com
Arto Timperi is a PhD (Engineering and Automation) from Tampere University of Technology. Since 1998, Arto Timperi has been working as the manager of Timberjack Energy Technology, developing the new promising and growing bio energy business area for the company. Before that he worked in the Fusion Power development at Max Planck Institute für Plasmaphysik in Munich, Germany. In 2003, he served the European Commission as a chairman to monitor the Fusion Technology project and the EU 5th Frame Work Programme. He currently serves also as a member of the management board of the National Wood Energy Programme, the management board of the National Fusion Energy Programme (fusion) and the management board of the Centre for Sustainable Energy (SENTRE) in Tampere, Finland.
In 2002, he was nominated as a Bioenergist of the Year in Finland by Finnbio Ry. He was also a member of the team that received World Energy Globe Award in Austria, on March 2002, for the achievements in the development of the World’s Biggest Biomass Power Plant, Alholmens Kraft (together with Alholmens Kraft, UPM-Kymmene and PVO). On January 19th 2004 in Berlin, the consortium of PVO, UPM and Timberjack was nominated to a winner of the EU Commission Campaign for Take-Off Awards by the achievements of the 630M€ bioenergy investment programme.
Dr. Jukka Leppälahti
National Technology Agency of Finland, Tekes
P.O.Box 69, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
Jukka Leppälahti is also the programme committee member in the non-nuclear energy programme of EU 6.FP. Furthermore, he is also responsible for strengthening the role of sustainable technology development in the activities of Tekes.
More information may be found on the website: http://www.tekes.fi
Ministry of Trade and
Industry
P.O. Box 32, 00023 Government, Finland
Email: risto.ranki@ktm.fi
In 1971-1989, Risto Ranki served in the Economics and Budget Departments of the Ministry of Finance and was its economic policy attaché at the permanent delegation to the OECD in Paris. In 1987-1991 he was one of the permanent advisers in the Cabinet Committee for Economic Policy.
Risto Ranki was co-author of the National Industrial Strategy (1993), acted as Ad hoc Rapporteur to the Prime Minister on Housing Finance (1996), and is currently a deputy member of the Helsinki City Council and Vice-Chairman of the city health board.
He studied economics (M.Sc.) and mathematics (B.Sc.) in the University of Helsinki and completed his doctoral thesis in 2000.
Technology and Society
Unit at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA)
Nachhaltige Informationstechnologie
Lerchenfeldstr. 5, CH-9014 St. Gallen, Switzerland
Email:
lorenz.hilty@empa.ch
Hilty is currently responsible for the research and development program "Sustainability in the Information Society" of the Council of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH), chair of the Technical Committee for Environmental Informatics of the German Informatics Society, and Swiss delegate to the Technical Committee "Computers and Society" of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP-TC9).
Dr. Lorenz Hilty earned his master's and PhD in Computer Science at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and has been working on information and simulation systems in environmental research and sustainable development for two decades. He has published several books and more than 70 articles in this field.
University of
Helsinki
P.O. Box 33, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Email:
ilkka.niiniluoto@helsinki.fi
Ilkka Niiniluoto's doctoral dissertation in 1973 analysed the role of theoretical concepts in inductive inference. In 1973-77 Niiniluoto was Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Helsinki, and since 1977 Professor of Theoretical Philosophy. Since 1975 he has been the President of the Philosophical Society of Finland. In 1998-93 he was vice-rector for research, and since 2003 he has worked as the rector of the University of Helsinki.
Niiniluoto has written, in the spirit of scientific realism, on probability and induction, explanation, truth and verisimilitude, theory change and scientific progress. His other interests include philosophical logic, epistemology, philosophy of technology, and philosophy of culture. As the chair of the Board of Finland Futures Academy he has also written about the foundations of futures studies. Niiniluoto's main works are Is Science Progressive? (1984), Truthlikeness (1987), and Critical Scientific Realism (1999).
Institut für Philosophie,
Freie Universität Berlin
Habelschwerdter Allee 30
D-14195 Berlin, Germany
Email:
fow@snafu.de
Between June 1984 and October 1989 Dr Frieder Otto
Wolf was an ‘Alternate member’ for the Greens in the European parliament.
Between 1994-1999 he was a Member of the European Parliament for the German
Greens. Since May 2003 he has been working as the Co-ordinator of the
Thematic Network “Sustainability Strategy”.
Sustainable Europe Research Institute, SERI
Grosse Telegraphenstr. 1 D,
50676 Köln, Germany
Email:
JoachSpangenberg@aol.com
You can see more of Spangenberg's work on the website: http://www.seri.at/Data/people/members/spangenberg/engpersonenjs.htm
Academy Research Fellow, Dr. Jyrki Luukkanen
Finland Futures Research Centre,
Turku School of Economics
Hämeenkatu 7 D, 33100 Tampere, Finland
Email:
jyrki.luukkanen@tse.fi
He is a Docent of Futures Studies specializing in energy, environmental and development studies. His research interests are mainly in the field of environmental politics, energy and climate policy, sustainable development, material flow analysis and development studies.
National Consumer Research
Centre
P.O. Box 5 (Kaikukatu 3), 00531 Helsinki, Finland
Email:
paivi.timonen@ncrc.fi
Corporate Responsibility, Kesko Oyj
Satamakatu 3,
00160 Helsinki, Finland
Email
jouko.kuisma@kesko.fi
Jouko Kuisma chairs the Responsible Importers' Network in Finland and is active in various international organizations such as the International Chamber of Commerce, EuroCommerce and the EU Multi Stakeholder Forum on CSR.