Baltic Rim Economies – a list of writers

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Baltic Rim Economies – a list of writers
The following expert articles have been published in the previous reviews:
Review
Author(s)
Position
Title of article
1/2015 Karmenu Vella
European Commissioner for
Environment, Maritime Affairs and
Fisheries
Now is the time to deliver
sustainable Blue Growth in the
Baltic
1/2015 Sirpa Paatero
Minister for International
Development
Finland
The Finnish icebreakers in the
Arctic region
Member of the European Parliament
Poland
Cultural diplomacy a tool to
promote EU values in its
Eastern neighbourhood in view
of new geopolitical situation
1/2015 Bogdan Zdrojewski
1/2015 Johannes Koskinen
Member of the Finnish Parliament
Chair of the Constitutional Law
Committee
Member of the Finnish Delegation to
the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Ukraine stresses the need to
reform and enhance the OSCE
Finland
1/2015 Bodo Bahr
Head of the BSPC Secretariat
Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference
Germany
Parliamentary cooperation in the
Baltic Sea Region
1/2015 Anders Lidén
Ambassador of Sweden to Finland
Strong links across the Baltic –
the Swedish-Finnish
relationship
1/2015 Sarah Price
HM Ambassador to Finland
British-Finnish relations in
2015
1/2015 Alexander Ostrovsky
Ambassador of Belarus to Finland
Transit potential of Belarus
Mayor
City of Turku
1/2015 Aleksi Randell
Chairman of the Board
Centrum Balticum Foundation
Finland
1
Baltic Sea Region Forum – a
region on the move?
1/2015 Bo Andersson
Secretary General
Norden Association
Sweden
The Nordic way might also be a
way for the Baltic Sea Region
1/2015 Talis Linkaits
Head of Secretariat
Baltic Sea Region
Spatial Planning Initiative VASAB
Latvia
Towards coherent spatial
planning and territorial
development of the Baltic Sea
Region
1/2015 Jens Stenbæk
Chairman of the Regional Council
Region Zealand
Denmark
Seizing the potentials for a
strong, sustainable regional
growth
1/2015 Stanislav Usachev
Head of International Relations
Yegor Gaidar Foundation
Russia
Yegor Gaidar Foundation –
changing the future
1/2015 Toni Vanhala
Head of International Affairs
Regional Council of Kymenlaakso
Finland
Kymenlaakso region and its
international co-operation in the
Baltic Sea area
1/2015 Marketta Mäkinen
Director of International Relations
City of Jyväskylä
Finland
The City of Jyväskylä and its
future cooperation in the Baltic
Sea region
1/2015
Monika CholewczyńskaDmitruk
Head of ETC/ENI Unit
Pomorskie at the start of new
Marshal Office of the Pomorskie Region
financial perspective 2014-2020
Poland
1/2015 Merja Salmi-Lindgren
Secretary General
Finnish Marine Industries
Finland
The Finnish marine industry –
the forerunner of smart maritime
technology solutions
1/2015 Saara Malila
Director of Communications and
Marketing
City of Turku
Finland
A logo doesn’t make a city, but a
uniform look can build it
PhD Student
CIRCLE, Lund University
1/2015 Joakim Lundblad
1/2015 Andris Jaunsleinis
Senior Policy Analyst
Time for the cities to step up
The Chamber of Industry and Commerce
in Southern Sweden
Sweden
Chairman
Latvian Association of Local and
Regional Governments (LALRG)
Latvia
2
Experience of consultations
among central and local
governments, social partners and
scientists in Latvia
1/2015 Anja Nystén
Senior Adviser
Environment, Energy and Climate
NEFCO
Finland
Reduction of nutrient load in
the Baltic Sea
1/2015 Lotta Nummelin
Managing Director
The Baltic Sea Fund
Finland
25 years for the Baltic Sea
1/2015 Åsa Stenmarck
Head of waste group IVL
Swedish Environmental Research
Institute
Former project manager
RECO Baltic 21 Tech
Sweden
RECO Baltic 21 Tech – a project
facilitating climbing in the
waste hierarchy
1/2015 Susanne Scherrer
Director
Interreg Baltic Sea Region Managing
Authority/Joint Secretariat
Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein
Germany
Funding cooperation – Interreg
Baltic Sea Region ready for a
new start
1/2015 Kalman Kalotay
Economic Affairs Officer
United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development
The impact of the new ruble
crisis on Russian FDI
1/2015 Kurt Bratteby
Director
Department for International Relations The Swedish Institute –
Swedish Institute
fostering territorial cooperation
Sweden
1/2015 Olaf Osica
Executive Director
Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)
Poland
Flying over the landslide
1/2015 Tomas Ries
Dr., Senior Lecturer, Assistant
Professor
National Defence College
Sweden
Baltic insecurity in a new
Europe
1/2015 Olli-Matti Mikkola
PhD
University of Turku
Finland
The military reform in Russian
newspapers
1/2015 Christian Opitz
Project Assistant
Research Center Norden Project
German Institute for International and
Security Affairs
Germany
(How to) Put the Baltic into the
Nordic Defence Cooperation?
3
1/2015 Yuri Piskulov
Doctor of Economics, Professor
Russian Foreign Trade Academy
Russia
How to restore trust?
1/2015 Tatiana Romanova
Dr., Associate Professor
Department of European Studies
St. Petersburg State University
Russia
Institutional aspects of EURussian energy relations – from
diversification to
primitivisation?
Iwona M. Batyk
1/2015
Lyudmila W. Semenova
Dr. eng., Assistant Professor
Faculty of Food Science University of
Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Poland
PhD, Assistant Professor
Faculty of Service
Immanuel Kant Federal University of
Kaliningrad
Russia
The importance of local border
traffic between Poland and
Russia in the era of sanctions on
Polish food products
1/2015 Piia Moilanen
Programme Manager
Tekes Arctic Seas Programme
TEKES
Finland
Arctic growth requires risk
management
1/2015 Dimitrijus Kucevicius
Director of the Innovation Department
Ministry of Economy
Lithuania
Science and technology parks – a
promising part of the
Lithuanian innovation
ecosystem
1/2015 Heli Salminen
Docent, Head
Auria Biobank
Finland
Biobanks – driver for
innovations in Europe
Head of Media and Communications
Balticlab
Anthony Jay Olsson
1/2015
Mirjam Külm
1/2015 Max Hogeforster
Programme Manager
Balticlab
Council of the Baltic Sea States
International Secretariat
Sweden
Dr., Chairman of the Hanse-Parlament
Germany
4
The future as now – when
innovation is not enough
Dual systems of vocational
training to overcome skills
mismatch and increase
innovation in the Baltic Sea
Region
Professor in Vytautas Magnus
University in Kaunas
Member of Lithuanian Association of
Adult Education
Lithuania
Genutė Gedvilienė
1/2015
Vidmantas Tūtlys
1/2015 Mark Galeotti
1/2015 Vladimir Gelman
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Head of the
Centre for Vocational Education and
Research
Vytautas Magnus University in
Kaunas
Lithuania
Member of European Network of the
Research of Vocational Education
VETNET
Professor of Global Affairs
SPS Center for Global Affairs
New York University
USA
Professor
European University at St. Petersburg
Russia
Finland Distinguished Professor
University of Helsinki
Finland
Development of key competences
of adults in Lithuania –
challenges and solutions
Transnational crime in the
Baltic states
Electoral authoritarianism in
Russia – what’s next?
Professor Emeritus
University of Tartu
Estonia
1/2015 Rein Taagepera
University of California, Irvine
USA
When decaying empires strike
back
Johan Skytte Prize 2008 in Political
Science
1/2015 Roman Ryabkov
Head of International Operations
Jokerit Hockey Club Oy
Finland
Jokerit and KHL – an essential
new trade bridge to the East
1/2015 Thorsten Kohlisch
Head
Joint Technical Secretariat
South Baltic Cross-border Co-operation
Programme
Center of European Projects, Gdańsk
Poland
Towards tangible results for blue
and green growth – the South
Baltic Programme 2014-2020
1/2015 Stefan Gänzle
Associate Professor
University of Agder, Kristiansand
Norway
The EU’s Strategy for the Baltic
Sea Region – a Baltic model for
Europe
5
1/2015 Merike Niitepõld
Head of Managing Authority
Central Baltic Programme 2014-2020
Regional Council of Southwest Finland
Finland
25 years of Interreg cooperation
– going for concrete results
1/2015 Evgenia Sergeeva
International Projects Coordinator
OPORA ROSSII, St. Petersburg
Russia
Cooperation with Finland –
OPORA ROSSII St. Petersburg
branch
1/2015 Elena Leontyeva
Partner
Consulting Company Success
Russia
Cooperation of young leaders
and entrepreneurs of twin-cities
Turku and St. Petersburg
1/2015 Satu Paiho
Dr. VTT Technical Research Centre
Finland
Huge market for energyefficiency in Russian (and
Eastern European) residential
districts
1/2015 Matilda Dahl
PhD in Business Administration
Assistant Professor
Uppsala University Campus Gotland
Sweden
Organizing the Baltic Sea
Region – a failing management
project?
1/2015 Merle Haruoja
Member of the Council
BSNGONW Estonian Foundation
Estonia
Human Rights Education is a
human right
1/2015 Urszula Kowalczyk
Head of Economics and Law
Department
Maritime Institute in Gdansk (MIG)
Poland
The Maritime Institute in
Gdansk activity in BSR Interreg
projects
Director
1/2015 Kari Liuhto
Professor
Turku School of Economics
Finland
China’s economic presence in the
Baltic Sea region
6/2014 Lenita Toivakka
Minister for European Affairs and
Foreign Trade
Finland
The benefits and doubts of TTIP
6/2014 Linas Linkevičius
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Lithuania
Road from Vilnius to Riga –
mounting challenges for the EU
Eastern Partnership
6/2014 Sirpa Pietikäinen
Finland
Baltic Sea area as the key player
in blue growth
6
6/2014 Inese Vaidere
Professor
Latvia
EU sanctions against Russia –
the high price of indecisiveness
6/2014 Tibor Szanyi
Hungary
Possible effects of the Russian
embargo on food taxes
6/2014 Christofer Fjellner
Swedish Moderate Party
Member of the delegation for relations
with Belarus
Sweden
EU’s perpetual dance with
Belarus
6/2014 Heikki Autto
National Coalition Party
Member of Parliament
Rovaniemi, Finland
The European bio-economy
grows from the North
6/2014 Esko Lotvonen
Mayor
City of Rovaniemi
Finland
Rovaniemi – the Arctic capital
of Finland
Chairman
Tschudi Shipping Company
6/2014 Felix H. Tschudi
Chairman
Centre for High North Logistics
Norway
The Arctic Corridor – Arctic
infrastructure as catalyst for
Nordic resource development
6/2014 Erja Tikka
Ambassador for Baltic Sea Affairs
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Finland
EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea
Region, more commitment and
focus for better results
6/2014 Helena Lindberg
Director General
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency
(MSB)
Sweden
Meeting the challenges of transboundary flows through
macroregional cooperation
6/2014 Asta Mackeviciute
Policy Officer
Directorate General for Humanitarian
Aid and Civil Protection
European Commission
Solidarity – a burden, privilege
or natural state?
6/2014 Bo Harald Tillberg
Director
Nordic Council of Ministers Office in
Lithuania
Belarusian language and
national identity – old
challenges, new paradox
7
Kjell Nilsson
Stefanie Lange
6/2014 Scherbenske
Aslı Tepecik Diş
Linus Rispling
Director
Nordregio
Research Fellow
Nordregio
Nordregio in the Baltic Sea
Region
Research Fellow
Nordregio
GIS Analyst
Nordregio
Partner
Storvik & Co AS
Norway
Nordic branding
Secretary General
John Nurminen Foundation
Finland
Summer 2014 – a tale of two
seas
6/2014 Vincent F. Valentine
Dr., Officer-in-Charge
Transport Section, Trade Logistics
Branch Division on Technology and
Logistics
UNCTAD
Maritime transport in the Baltic
Sea from a global perspective
6/2014 Sanna Sonninen
Director
Finnish Transport Safety Agency Trafi
Finland
Baltic Sea – the sea of
information?
6/2014 Kimmo Mäki
Managing Director
Port of Helsinki
Finland
Port of Helsinki on the move
Johanna Boijer6/2014
Svahnström
Head of Communications
Corporate Communications
Viking Line Abp
Finland
Viking Line’s commitment to
environmental work
6/2014 Kåre Storvik
6/2014
Annamari ArrakoskiEngardt
Professor, Head
Economics and Management
Department
Gdynia Maritime University
6/2014 Marek Grzybowski
President
Polish Maritime Cluster
Editor-in-Chief
The Internet Manager
Poland
8
Knowledge transfer and
international cooperation –
Polish Maritime Cluster and
experience
6/2014 Johanna Karhu
Project Coordinator of the Baltic Sea
Pilot Project BALSAM
Helsinki Commission (HELCOM)
Finland
Cooperation in marine
environmental monitoring in the
Baltic to support future policy
needs
6/2014 Desislava Dikova
Professor in International Business
with CEE focus
WU Vienna University of Economics
and Business
Austria
Entry mode choices of MNCs in
the Baltic Sea region
6/2014 Igor Gurkov
Distinguished University Professor
National Research University Higher
School of Economics, Moscow
Russia
New conditions, new motives,
and new modes of operations of
Western MNCs in Russia
6/2014 Esa Österberg
Chief Specialist
National Institute for Health and
Welfare
Finland
Consequences of travelers’
alcohol traffic between Finland
and Estonia
6/2014 Juhana Aunesluoma
Research Director
Network for European Studies
Finland
The Baltic World – 25 years
from the revolutions of 1989
Professor, Leading expert
Bulgarian Republican Institute
Bulgaria
6/2014 Venelin Tsachevsky
Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Finland
(2003-2006)
Casimir Ehrnrooth – the Finn
who made history
Author of the book “Casimir Ehrnrooth:
The Finn who made history” (2014)
Professor, dr hab.
Head
Department of Applied Sociology and
Social Work
Wielisława Warzywoda6/2014
Kruszyńska
Director
Institute of Sociology
Faculty of Economics and Sociology
University of Łódź
Poland
6/2014 Vladimir Miklashevsky
Economist, Trading Desk Strategist
Danske Bank
Finland
9
“Investing in children” – a
political slogan or a serious
challenge for European societies?
Ukraine crisis accelerates
rouble’s move into free float
6/2014 Janis Berzins
Managing Director
Center for Security and Strategic
Research
National Defence Academy of Latvia
Latvia
Russia and European security
6/2014 Liudas Zdanavicius
Lecturer
The General Jonas Zemaitis Military
Academy of Lithuania
Lithuania
Impact of the Russian economic
sanctions on Lithuania
6/2014 Erik Jones
Director
European and Eurasian Studies
The Johns Hopkins University SAIS
USA
Russian sanctions and Russian
confidence
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Latvia
6/2014 Toms Rostoks
Researcher
Centre for Security and Strategic
Research
Latvia
Baltic security and NATO
membership after Ukraine
6/2014 Justyna Gotkowska
Project Coordinator
‘Security and Defence in Northern
Europe’
Centre for Eastern Studies
Poland
Russian military activity against
Sweden – short and long term
perspective
6/2014 Viljar Veebel
Associate Professor
Estonian National Defence College
Estonia
Will economic sanctions fulfil
Baltic expectations in terms of
Ukraine and Russia?
6/2014 Dmitry A. Lanko
Associate Professor
Russia
Regional approach in Russian
policy towards Estonia in the
times of sanctions
6/2014 Susanne Oxenstierna
Dr., Deputy Research Director
Swedish Defence Research Agency
Sweden
Future growth of the Russian
economy?
6/2014 Jeff Schubert
Research Consultant
Shanghai Institute of International
Financial Centre (SIIFC)
Shanghai University of Finance and
Economics
China
Moscow as an International
Financial Center (IFC)
10
6/2014 Yulia Vymyatnina
BP Professor of Economics
European University at St. Petersburg
Russia
Eurasian Economic Union – a
union of conflicting political
interests
6/2014 Dmitry Gudimenko
CEO
Capital Development Group Ltd
Finland/Russia
Russian double-headed eagle –
what will it bring to its Western
partners and neighbors
Deputy Director
HSE Institute for Statistical Studies
and the Economics of Knowledge
(ISSEK)
Alexander Sokolov
Director
HSE Foresight Centre
National Research University – Higher
School of Economics (HSE)
6/2014
Foresight in Russia
Oleg Karasev
Head of the Chair of Statistics
Faculty of Economics
Moscow State University
Konstantin Vishnevskiy
Head of Department for Private-Public
Partnership in Innovation Sector
(ISSEK)
School of Economics (HSE)
Russia
6/2014 Heidi Saario
Business Development Officer
International Affairs
Turku Region Development Centre
Finland
Economic cooperation of Turku
region and St. Petersburg
6/2014 Denis Mustonen
Senior Advisor
Economic Development/
City Competitiveness
City of Helsinki
Finland
Russian cooperation of the City
of Helsinki
6/2014 Juhani Wihanto
Head of Real Estate and Investments
Wihanto Group
Finland
Office real estate market in St.
Petersburg, Russia in 2014
6/2014 Elizaveta Ageeva
L.L.M, M. Sc. (Tech.)
Specialist in International Operations
NCC Rakennus Oy
Finland
Foreign investments in
commercial real estate in St.
Petersburg – trick or treat?
11
6/2014 Viktorija Cohen
PhD, Researcher, Lecturer
Faculty of Economics
Vilnius University
Lithuania
Development of Kaliningrad
region – modification scenario
6/2014 Petri Vuorio
Senior Adviser
East Consulting Ltd.
Finland
Finland’s future position as a
hub of Russian tourism
Iwona M. Batyk
Dr. eng., Assistant Professor
Faculty of Food Science
University of Warmia and Mazury in
Olsztyn
Poland
6/2014
Lyudmila W. Semenova
Faculty of Service
Immanuel Kant Federal University of
Kaliningrad
Russia
Olga Petrova
Journalist, Development Director
Art-Media agency “Main Stream”
Russia
Alexandra Petrova
General Director
Art-Media agency “Main Stream”
Russia
6/2014
Tourism development between
border regions: Kaliningrad
(Russia) and Warmia–Mazury
(Poland)
“Main Stream” agency
6/2014 Olga Hannonen
Researcher
Centre for Tourism Studies
Department for Geographical and
Historical Studies
University of Eastern Finland
Finland
Russian second home owner –
friend or foe?
6/2014 Jury Ponomarev
PhD, Professor
Karelian Branch of the Russian
Presidential Academy of National
Economy and Public Administration
Russia
On the socio-economic situation
in the Republic of Karelia
6/2014 Ilya Shegelman
Rector’s Adviser
Petrozavodsk State University
Russia
Clusters in the economy of a
cross-border region and Finnish
experience
12
Aleksei Vasilev
Assistant Professor
Russia
Pavel Shchukin
Head of Innovative Section
Russia
6/2014
5/2014 Else Berit Eikeland
Arctic Ambassador and Senior Arctic
Official
Norway
Development of high-technology
manufacture of stamp-welded
slide and wedge gate valves for
atomic, heat-power and gas-andoil industries
Norway’s priority on economic
development in the Arctic
Finnish Ambassador to Norway
(2010–2014)
5/2014 Maimo Henriksson
5/2014 Timo Rautajoki
Director (2014-)
Unit for Northern Europe
Finland
The inevitable choice – Finnish
companies go North
President and CEO
Lapland Chamber of Commerce
Finland
Financial and political crises are
delaying projects in European
High North
President and CEO
Arctia Group
5/2014 Tero Vauraste
Vice Chair
Arctic Economic Council
Finland
Knowledge and data exchange
between industry and academia
in the Arctic context
5/2014 Kari Synberg
Více-President
Finnish Geographical Society
Finland
Finnish-Russian co-operation
opportunities in the Arctic
region
5/2014 Andrey Kletrov
Advisor
Finpro Trade Center in Murmansk
Russia
To become a supplier to Russian
Arctic mines – a worthy choice
5/2014 Mikhail Belokon
Doctoral student
Saint Petersburg State University
Russia
Russia’s monotowns in the
Arctic region as centers of
country’s mining industry
5/2014 Hanna Mäkinen
Project Researcher
Pan-European Institute
University of Turku
Finland
The development of the Russian
maritime sector – boosted by the
growing interest to the Arctic
13
Harri Mikkola
Senior research fellow
The Finnish Institute of International
Affairs
Finland
5/2014
Juha Käpylä
Research fellow
Affairs
Finland
The uncertain future of the
global Arctic
5/2014 Lassi Heininen
Professor
University of Lapland
Finland
The achieved high Arctic
stability as an asset for the
storms of international politics
5/2014 Jussi Huotari
PhD candidate
The Faculty of Social Sciences
Northern Cultures and Resource
Politics Doctoral Programme
Finland
Arctic Roulette – will economic
sanctions open the door for SinoRussian offshore operations in
the High North
5/2014 Kai Sun
Associate Professor
School of Law and Politics
Ocean University of China
China
After getting in – what comes
next after China got the
Observer Status?
5/2014 Young Kil Park
Director
Maritime Territory Research Center
Korea Maritime Institute
South Korea
The Arctic – South Korea’s
interests and challenges ahead
PhD student (Environmental Policy)
Institute for Natural Resources,
Environment and Society (LYY)
5/2014 Adrian Braun
Visiting Researcher
Arctic Centre
Finland
The relevance of Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR)
reports in the framework of
Arctic business operations
5/2014 Jaakko Henttonen
Chair
Arctic Contaminants Action Program
A Working Group of the Arctic Council
Arctic Contaminants Action
Program (ACAP) – practical
projects to reduce contamination
in the Arctic
5/2014 Jutta Wark
International Chair
Sustainable Development Working
Group
Arctic Council
The human face of the Arctic –
the Sustainable Development
Working Group of the Arctic
Council
14
5/2014 Aileen A. Espíritu
Researcher, Associate Professor
The Barents Institute
Campus Kirkenes
Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences,
and Education
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Professor
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center
5/2014 Shinichiro Tabata
Lars Elenius
5/2014
Mats-Olov Olsson
Director
Helsinki Office
Hokkaido University
Japan
Futuring the Arctic
Japan-Finland bilateral project
on the socio-economic
development of the Russian Far
North
Professor, Chief Editor of the Barents
history textbook
Department of Historical, Philosophical
and Religious Studies
Umeå University
A History Textbook and an
Sweden
Encyclopedia of the Barents
PhD, Chief Editor of the Encyclopedia Region
of the Barents Region
Centre for Regional Science (Cerum)
Umeå University
Sweden
5/2014 Eini Laaksonen
University Teacher
Pan European Institute
University of Turku
Finland
Concluding remarks on the
Special Issue on the future of the
Arctic – from researcher’s
perspective
4/2014 Carl Haglund
Minister of Defence
Finland
The Baltic Sea as an example of
regional maritime security
cooperation
4/2014 Rokas Masiulis
Minister of Energy
Lithuania
Klaipeda LNG terminal – the
game changer in the Baltic
region
4/2014 Martin Lidegaard
Foreign Minister
Denmark
The rising importance of the
Baltic Sea region
4/2014 Hans-Peter Bartels
Dr., Member
Chairman of the Defence Committee
German Bundestag
Germany
Cooperation in European
security policy with the prospect
of a European army, and the
topical relevance of this debate
for the Baltic Sea region
15
4/2014 Jette Nordam
Ambassador of Denmark in Finland
The importance of cooperation
across the Baltic Sea region
4/2014 Riitta Hemmi
Consul, Environment
Consulate General of Finland in St.
Petersburg
Russia
Hazardous waste landfill near
the Baltic Sea
4/2014 Katariina Kiviluoto
Project Coordinator
The ARCHOIL-project
Turku University of Applied Sciences
Finland
Cooperation vital in insular oil
spill response
4/2014 Ksenia Yudaeva
First Deputy Governor
Bank of Russia
Russia
Introduction of inflation
targeting in Russia
4/2014 Lene Espersen
4/2014 Hanna Ekman
Chairman
Baltic Development Forum
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Denmark
Development Director
Centrum Balticum
Finland
Mayor
City of Umeå
4/2014 Marie-Louise Rönnmark
Chairperson
Capital of Culture committee
Sweden
Bridging the Baltic Sea
Centrum Balticum – making the
most of the Baltic Sea region
Aiming for growth in the far
north – Umeå’s goal as Capital
of Culture 2014
4/2014 Paweł Adamowicz
Mayor
City of Gdańsk
Poland
A strong brand is fundamental
4/2014 Johanna Reiman
Executive Director
Baltic Region Healthy Cities
Association - WHO Collaboration
Centre for Healthy Cities and Urban
Health in the Baltic Region
Finland
Health in All Policies needs a
boost in the Baltic Sea region
4/2014 Jaakko Lehtonen
Director General
Finnish Tourist Board
Finland
The appealing Maiden of
Finland
16
4/2014 Anu Valtonen
Professor of Cultural Economy
Finland
Tourism insights from the Arctic
Circle
4/2014 Teija Raninen
Film Commissioner
West Finland Film Commission
Finland
Turku – a European film city
4/2014 Juha Aaltonen
Airport Manager
Turku Airport
Finland
Turku Airport
4/2014 Frøystein Gjesdal
Rector
NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Norway
Baltic Management Institute –
a success story in executive
education
4/2014 Per Holten-Andersen
President
Copenhagen Business School
Denmark
Copenhagen Business School in
the Baltics – where university
means business
and Development
Switzerland
The Crimean crisis and the
future of Russian outward
foreign direct investment
4/2014 Andrii Chubyk
Energy Analyst
Centre for Global Studies Strategy XXI
Ukraine
European gas rebus
4/2014 Hannu Arkonsuo
Managing Director
Arewcon-Development Oy
Finland
EU-Russian energy relations
and Ukraine crisis
4/2014 Edward Hunter Christie
Research Partner
University of Turku
Finland
Russia sanctions – the need for
new EU solidarity mechanisms
Professor
BI Norwegian Business School
4/2014 Ole Gunnar Austvik
4/2014 Stanislav L. Tkachenko
Norwegian Institute of International
Affairs (NUPI)
Norway
Professor of Economics
School of International Relations
Saint-Petersburg State University
Russia
17
Will economic sanctions work?
Russia’s innovation economy
and impact of Western sanctions
Dr., Brigadier General (retired)
Security Policy Expert
4/2014 Klaus Wittmann
Senior Fellow
Aspen Institute
Thinking beyond Putin
Lecturer of Contemporary History
Potsdam University
Germany
4/2014 Louis Clerc
4/2014 Henrik Ringbom
4/2014 Üllas Ehrlich
Senior Lecturer
Department of Political Science and
Contemporary History
University of Turku
Finland
Adjunct Professor (Docent) of Maritime
Law and the Law of the Sea
Department of Law
Åbo Akademi
Finland
Professor II
Scandinavian Institute of Maritime
Law
University of Oslo
Norway
Professor of Environmental Economics
Tallinn University of Technology
Estonia
Head
EU-Russia Dialogue
4/2014 Thomas Schneider
Representative to Estonia
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Germany
Atlantism versus gaullism? The
sale of French Mistral-class
ships to Russia in the context of
French foreign policy
Regulating the Baltic Sea
Current challenges of
environmental economics in
Estonia
Russian minority in Estonia –
social co-existence, educational
transformation and the labour
market
4/2014 Evgeny Gontmakher
Dr., Prof., Deputy Director
Institute of World Economy and
International Relations
Russian Academy of Science
Russia
The Russian labor market –
European tendencies and
national features
4/2014 Jadwiga Rogoża
Senior Fellow
Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)
Poland
Kaliningrad’s paradoxes
4/2014 Yuri Babkin
Development Director
Kaliningrad Region Development
Corporation
Russia
Kaliningrad region establishes
favourable conditions for
international business
18
4/2014 Kristiina Tõnnisson
Dr., Director of European College
University of Tartu
Estonia
Where did we lose the students
while teaching EU?
Director
Institute of International Programmes
Lyudmila Kulikovskaya
Director
Barents EU Centre
Russia
4/2014
Anastasia Kuznetsova
Director
European Union Information Centre
The EU Centre in the Barents
Euro-Arctic region
Coordinator
Barents EU Centre
Russia
PhD, DSc, Senior Researcher
4/2014 Toomas Varrak
Tālis J. Putniņš
Professor, Head of the Chair of Political Considering the stake of science
in politics
Science and International Relations
Euroacademy
Estonia
Assistant Professor
Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
Latvia
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research
Fellow
University of Technology in Sydney
Australia
4/2014
Arnis Sauka
Assistant Professor
Latvia
Dr. hab., Leading Researcher
Institute for Social Research
Daugavpils University
4/2014 Victor Voronov
Theresa Weiss
4/2014
Vassilen Iotzov
Shadow economies in the Baltic
countries – recent trends
Expert in Sociology and Economics
Science Council
Latvian Academy of Sciences
Latvia
South Baltic Programme
Poland
19
Systemic difficulties in Latvia –
causes and possible solutions
Live and let die?! Corporate
social responsibility as a
sustainable business concept
3/2014 Kari Mäkinen
The Most Revd Dr
The Archbishop of Turku and Finland
The Evangelical Lutheran Church
Finland
The Baltic Sea – a meeting point
for ecclesial traditions
3/2014 Petteri Orpo
Chairman of Executive Board
Finland
Turku and Southwest Finland
– active in business and crossborder cooperation
3/2014 Juho Savo
Region Mayor
Finland
The Baltic Sea – on my mind
Mayor
City of Turku
Chairman
Finland
Turku Pro Baltic – long term
commitment for Baltic Sea
cooperation
3/2014 Kari Häkämies
Director-General
Regional State Administrative Agency
for Southwestern Finland
Former Minister of the Interior
Finland
Work before everyday security is
rewarding
3/2014 Kalervo Väänänen
Rector
University of Turku
Finland
The future lies in the hands of
the youth
3/2014 Mikko Ketonen
TS-Yhtymä Oy
Finland
Economic growth is the best
guarantee for the protection of
the Baltic Sea
3/2014 Kari Takanen
Rear Admiral
Commander of the Finnish Navy
Finland
Maritime security at the Baltic
Sea
3/2014 Jukka Savolainen
Captain (N)
Commander of West Finland Coast
Guard District
Finland
Coast guards – cooperating
internationally for the security
of the Baltic Sea area
3/2014 Tapio Huttunen
Police Chief
Southwestern Finland Police
Department
Finland
The Baltic Sea – a sea of
cooperation
20
3/2014 Arto Honka
Director
Turku Customs
Finland
Customs as a facilitator of trade
from the early days of history to
the present and the future –
with a Turku twist
3/2014 Pekka Sundman
Director
City Development Group
Central Administration
City of Turku
Finland
The role of Finnish marine
industry in Baltic Sea area
3/2014 Kari Vainio
Senior Editor-in-Chief
Turun Sanomat
Finland
Turku lies at the heart of the
Baltic Sea
3/2014 Rikumatti Levomäki
CEO
Turku Science Park Ltd
Finland
Life science city Turku ‒ real
triple helix
3/2014 Hanna Halme
Vice President, General Manager
PerkinElmer Diagnostics EMEA
Finland
Global human and
environmental health company
in Turku ‒ making a difference,
every day
3/2014 Jaakko Saari
Director
Igence Oy Ab
Finland
Growing opportunities in
eCommerce all around the Baltic
region
3/2014 Vesa Marttinen
Managing Director
Turku Repair Yard Ltd, part of BLRT
Grupp
Finnish Marine Industries
Finland
Regional marine industry
3/2014 Bo Österlund
Commodore (one star admiral) ret.
Finland
Our national economy relies on
our maritime traffic – true or
not?
3/2014 Hannu Kottonen
President, CEO
HKScan Group
Finland
HKScan – from Turku to the
Baltic Rim markets
MD
Sam Hansén
3/2014
Ilpo Mantere
COB
Lahtinen Mantere Saatchi & Saatchi
Finland
21
Surfing on the waves of emotion
across the Baltic
3/2014 Anne-Marget Hellén
3/2014 Sari Ruusumo
Director of Tourism
Turku Touring
Southwest Finland Tourist and
Convention Bureau
City of Turku
Finland
Convention Manager
Turku Touring
Convention Bureau
City of Turku
The Baltic Sea – a top travel
destination of the future
Destination for friendship
Chair
Congress Network Finland
Finland
3/2014 Janne Tienpää
Senior Sales Manager
Sokotel Ltd, part of S-Group Hotels
Finland
Focus on tourism – case Finland
Director
External Affairs
City of Turku
3/2014 Mikko Lohikoski
Secretary General
Cities as key actors in regional
cooperation – the Turku Process
as example
Coordinator
Turku Process
Finland
3/2014 Kauko Jämsén
Director, Ambassador
Turku Centre in Saint-Petersburg
Small is beautiful in the Baltic
Sea region
3/2014 Krista Taipale
Head
Turku-Southwest Finland European
Office in Brussels
Smart development of Baltic Sea
region at the core of EU funding
programmes 2014–2020
3/2014 Tapio Reponen
Vice-Rector
University of Turku
Finland
University of Turku has an
active participation in Baltic
Sea region development
3/2014 Juha Kettunen
Rector
Finland
A glimpse at the migration flows
in the Baltic Sea region
3/2014 Markus Granlund
Dean, Professor
University of Turku
Finland
Looking at research and
education in business and
economics from local and global
perspectives
22
3/2014 Urpo Kivikari
Professor (emeritus) of International
Economics
University of Turku
Finland
Turku – “Baltic city”
3/2014 Niklas Österlund
CEO
HC TPS Turku Oy
Finland
Sports – a bridge across the seas
Principal
Turku Conservatory of Music and
Dance
3/2014 Juha Järvinen
Choir conductor
Male Choir LY in Turku 2013
Luvia Male Choir 2001–2012
Finland
Communities, individuals and
cultural history among Baltic
and Nordic male choirs
3/2014 Kari Immonen
Museum Director
Turku Art Museum
Finland
Monuments for men or
monuments men? (Best) possible
scenarios for visual arts
3/2014 Maija Palonheimo
Managing Director
Linnateatteri
Finland
Film city Turku
Artistic advisor
3/2014 Raija-Liisa Seilo
Director (2008–2013)
Turku City Theatre
Member
Arts Council of Varsinais-Suomi
Finland
Turku and changing cultural
climate in the Baltic Sea region
3/2014 Riitta Ahdan
Coordinator
Head of INTERACT Point Turku
Project Director INTERACT ENPI
Finland
Cooperation challenges in the
regional context
3/2014 Björn Grönholm
Head of Secretariat
Union of the Baltic Cities
Commission on Environment
Finland
Increasing role of cooperation –
again
Coordinator
Baltic Sea Challenge
3/2014 Salla-Maria Lauttamäki
Executive Manager
Protection Fund for the Archipelago
Sea
Centrum Balticum
Finland
23
A clean, productive and shared
Baltic Sea
Director
3/2014 Kari Liuhto
Director
Professor
University of Turku
Finland
Build common strategies to
avoid common tragedies
Vice-President of the European
Commission in charge of Transport
Rail Baltic – a vital transport
link to connect East and West
Prime Minister
Iceland
Together we stand stronger – the
importance of regional cooperation
2/2014 Joachim Zeller
Member
European Parliament
Giving up Russia?
2/2014 Kristiina Ojuland
Member
ALDE group
European Parliament
EU-Russia relations – on the
verge of breaking
2/2014 Siim Kallas
2/2014
Sigmundur Davíð
Gunnlaugsson
Member
Swedish Green Party
2/2014 Carl Schlyter
2/2014 Henrik Normann
Member
Vice President
Committee of Environment European
Parliament
Time to focus on human growth
instead of economic growth
President and CEO
Nordic Investment Bank
NIB – supporting sustainable
growth in the Baltic Sea region
Mayor
City of Raisio
Finland
2/2014 Ari Korhonen
A crucial time for Europe
Member
Council of European Municipalities
and Regions
2/2014 Anita Lehikoinen
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Education and Culture
Finland
24
Strong internationalization
safeguards quality of higher
education
2/2014 Ilpo Kokkila
Confederation of Finnish Industries
EK
Finland
Paving the way for more
business with Russia
2/2014 Alexander Y. Panychev
Rector
Petersburg State Transport University
Russia
High speed rail lines as a factor
of development of science,
innovative technologies and
education
2/2014 Mika Joukio
CEO
Metsä Tissue
Finland
Metsä Tissue seeking for strong
growth in Poland
2/2014 Mikko Söderlund
Managing Director
SRV St. Petersburg
Finnish real estate investment
vehicles in St. Petersburg
2/2014 Aleksei Novitsky
Director
Gasum Oy Energy Trading Unit
Finland
GEK Insights – Natural Gas
Outlook 2014
2/2014 Alexander Starchenko
Chairman
Supervisory Board
Non-commercial partnership Energy
Consumers Association
Russia
Distributed generation in Russia
– menace or opportunity?
Senior Vice President
Paulig Group
2/2014 Elisa Markula
2/2014 Pekka Heikonen
Managing Director
Gustav Paulig Ltd
Finland
CEO, President
Pemamek Oy Ltd
Finland
Baltic welding companies to
reach competitiveness through
automation
Group Managing Director, Associate
Dean
Aalto University Executive Education
2/2014 Pekka Mattila
Professor of Practice
Aalto University School of Business
Finland
2/2014 Igor Kogut
Paulig – promoting the role of
coffee in the Baltic Sea region
Director
Ukrainian School of Political Studies
Ukraine
25
Building a Nordic hub for
leadership and organizational
development
Political prospects of Ukraine in
the context of “Revolution of
Dignity”
Ukraine after Euromaidan –
country on the path of reforms in
the conditions of deep economic
and political crisis
2/2014 Arseniy Svynarenko
Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies
Finland
2/2014 Niklas I.M. Nováky
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Politics & International
EU military crisis management
Relations
– the need for common funding
University of Aberdeen
The United Kingdom
2/2014 Minna Jokela
Dr. (Soc.Sc.), Researcher
The Finnish Border and Coast Guard
Academy
Finland
Border security as a field of
practice between Finland and
Russia
2/2014 Jukka Manner
Professor, Ph.D.
Department of Communications and
Networking
Aalto University
Finland
From IT security to cyber
security – bits destroying our
physical world
Jacek Bełdowski
2/2014
Jan Fidler
Dr., Scientific Project Coordinator
Institute of Oceanology of the Polish
Academy of Sciences (IOPAN)
Poland
Danger remains from World
War II in our shared waters
Project Coordinator, Managing Director
Biuro Projektów Fidler
Germany
Senior Advisor
Tetraplan A/S
2/2014 Helena Kyster-Hansen
Baltic Transport Outlook 2030
Project Manager
BTO2030 study
Denmark
2/2014 Karlis Bukovskis
Deputy Director
Latvian Institute of International
Affairs
Latvia
The lost and found for Latvia –
10 years of European Union
membership
2/2014 Ivars Ijabs
Associate Professor of Political Science
Latvia
Geopolitics of a minority –
Latvian Russian-speakers in the
shadow of Crimea
2/2014 Daina Ruduša
Rīga2014 International Media
Coordinator
The Latvian Institute
Latvia
A positive force majeure of
culture in Rīga 2014
26
Pavel Cheshev
Ph.D., Advisor
Tekes Russia, Moscow
Tekes - Finnish Funding Agency for
Innovation
2/2014
Virpi Herranen
Head
Tekes Russia, St. Petersburg
Tekes - Finnish Funding Agency for
Innovation
Finnish-Russian innovation
cooperation – growing on
2/2014 Tomi M. Virtanen
Assistant Manager
Turku Chamber of Commerce
Finland
Finnish technology startups and
traditional manufacturing
industry
2/2014 Aleksandr Loktev
Director
RVC Infrafund
Russia
Soft infrastructure for the
innovative companies
2/2014 Alexander Galitsky
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Almaz Capital Partners
Russia
Public-private partnerships –
fostering innovations in Russia
2/2014 Alexander Khasi
Co-founder
MedStart
Russia
MedStart – helping biomedical
start-ups succeed
2/2014 Alexey Kostrov
Executive Director
Moscow Seed Fund
Russia
Moscow Seed Fund – increasing
start-up investments in the
region
2/2014 Anastasia Tyurina
Head of Innovation Department
National Research University - Higher
School of Economics
Russia
Sustainable development of
Russian technology parks – next
step in the way
2/2014 Andrew Vvedenskiy
Director of Infrastructure and Regional
Development
RVC
Russia
Innovation infrastructure as the
key element of sustainable
venture ecosystem in Russia
2/2014 Artour Baganov
CEO
Global TechInnovations
Russia
Surviving the “Valley of Death”
– start-up acceleration programs
2/2014 Denis Sosnovtsev
Channel Solution Manager
IBM
Russia
Towards a smarter planet
27
2/2014 Dmitry Chikhachev
Managing Partner
Runa Capital
Russia
Developing Russian venture
industry
2/2014 Elena Kasimova
Business Development Director
Bioprocess Capital Partners
Russia
Biotech funds – achieving the
maximum results
2/2014 Evgeny Kuznetsov
Director
Strategic Communications Department
RVC
Russia
Innovation ecosystem in Russia
– entering the global competition
2/2014 Gulnara Bikkulova
Director
Technology Capital and Markets Access
Department
RVC
Russia
Business of Innovative
Technologies (BIT) – the largest
innovation contest in Russia
2/2014 Igor Rozhdesvenskiy
CEO
Ingria Business Incubator
Russia
Business incubators and
technoparks – connecting the
elements of the innovative
ecosystem
CEO
Centre for Innovation Development
City of Moscow
2/2014 Konstantin Fokin
CEO/President
National Business-Angels Association
Russia
Flying with the wings of
business angels
2/2014 Maria Podlesnova
CEO & Cofounder
RusBase
Russia
RusBase – single point of entry
to the Russian technological
media space
2/2014 Michael Kharuzin
Investment Director
RVC Seed Fund
Russia
RVC Seed Fund – sawing into
success
2/2014 Natalia Polyakova
Head of Institutional Department
RVC
Russia
Intellectual property in
technology development in
Russia
2/2014 Renat Garipov
GreenfieldProject
Co-founder
Russia
Russian Startup Rating –
ranking the success stories
28
2/2014 Victor Sidnev
General Director
TECHNOSPARK Nanotech Center in
Troitsk
Russia
Regional innovative cluster –
Troitsk Innovation Center
Associate Professor
Department of Regional Economics
Stanislav Babich
2/2014
Dmitry Vasilenko
Associate Professor
Department of International Economic
Relations
Vice-Rector on International Relations
The perspectives of the RussianEU cooperation in the field of
use of the LNG as motor fuel in
St. Petersburg State University of
Economics
Russia
Deputy Director
International Relations (IMEMO)
2/2014 Alexey Kuznetsov
Corresponding Member
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian FDI in the Baltic
Sea region
Professor
MGIMO University
Russia
2/2014 Anna Beitāne
Andrey Makarychev
Associate Fellow
Latvian Institute of International
Affairs
Latvia
Professor of International Relations
University of Tartu
Estonia
2/2014
Alexander Sergunin
Juhana Lounela
Russia
Senior Lecturer
Finland
2/2014
Tapio Riihinen
Managing Partner, Senior Consultant
ManagEast Oy
Finland
29
The soft power dimension of
Russia’s foreign policy towards
the Baltic States
Russia’s Baltic policies – what
kind of soft power?
Western companies promoting
transformation of leadership
culture in Russia
2/2014 Yury Zverev
Head
Department of Geography,
Environmental Management and
Spatial Development
Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal
University
Russia
The Kaliningrad region – a
search for a new model of
economic development
2/2014 Kaja Tampere
Ph.D., Professor of Communication
Management
Tallinn University
Estonia
Strategic Communication
Management (CM) in the postcommunist Baltic Sea region
Research Director
Finland Futures Research Centre
University of Turku
2/2014 Jari Kaivo-oja
Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Science
Finland
2/2014 Joanna Żukowska
Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Warsaw School of Economics
Poland
Cross external debt position
analysis in the Nordic and in the
Baltic Sea countries – quartiles
2011Q4-2013Q3
Modern marketing
communication on the Polish
market
Director of the Secretariat
Youth of the Westpomeranian Region
Poland
2/2014 Małgorzata Ludwiczek
Coordinator
Working Group on Youth Policy
Baltic Sea States Subregional
Cooperation
The future of youth cooperation
Dr., Adjunct Professor
Institute of Political Science
Marcin Chełminiak
2/2014
Institute of Political Science
Wojciech Kotowicz
University of Warmia and Mazury in
Olsztyn
Poland
30
Local border traffic between
Poland and the Kaliningrad
region – international and crossborder determinants
Professor, Chair
Regional Centre of Exprertise in
Hamburg
2/2014 Walter Leal Filho
2/2014 Piotr Masiukiewicz
Head
Research and Transfer Centre
Applications of Life Sciences
Faculty of Life Sciences
Hamburg University of Applied
Sciences
Germany
Ph.D., Professor Warsaw School of
Economics
Institute of Value Management
Fostering sustainability and
university networking – a case
study from the RCE Hamburg
and Region
Crisis taxes – threats and
opportunities
Former President of Polish banks
Poland
Professor
BUP National Centre
2/2014 Alexander Fehér
2/2014 Visvaldas Varžinskas
Remigijus Čiegis
Department of Sustainable
Development
Slovak University of Agriculture in
Nitra
Slovakia
Associate Professor
Kaunas University of Technology
Kaunas University of
Institute of Environmental Engineering Technology – steps towards
(APINI)
sustainable university
Lithuania
Professor
Department of Business Economics and
Management
Kaunas Faculty of Humanities
Vilnius University
Lithuania
2/2014
Linas Kliučininkas
A BUP motivated system of
education for sustainable
development in Slovakia
Professor
Department of Environmental
Engineering
Faculty of Chemical Technology
Kaunas University of Technology
Lithuania
31
Assessment of sustainable
university development
Thomas S. Grindsted
2/2014 Kaisu Sammalisto
Tove Holm
Ph.D. student
Department of Environmental, Social
and Spatial Change
Roskilde University
Denmark
Ph.D., MBA, Associate Professor
ESDAN – with quality
Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable management systems towards
Development
sustainability
University of Gävle
Sweden
M.Sc., Environmental Coordinator
Novia University of Applied Sciences
Finland
Murat Zh. Nurushev
2/2014
Dana Aikio
Professor, Doctor of Biology
Eurasian National University
Member
Academy of Sciences RAEN
Kazakhstan
Ph.D. of Economics
LST Group
Finland
Development prospects for trade
and economic relations between
Kazakhstan and Finland in a
short run
2/2014 Irina Lyutomskaya
Senior Lecturer, Teacher of English and
Russian
Foreign Languages Department
Petersburg State Transport University
Russia
Durham and St. Petersburg –
university partners
2/2014 Kari Liuhto
Professor of the Russian economy
University of Turku
Finland
Despite the NATO membership
of the Baltic States their exports
to Russia grown faster than
those of Finland between 2004
and 2013
1/2014 Štefan Füle
Enlargement and European
Neighbourhood Policy
EU-Belarus –
relations conditioned on respect
for values and based on contacts
with people
1/2014 Vladimir Makei
The Republic of Belarus
Belarus and Finland – forging a
brighter future
1/2014 Filip Kaczmarek
Chairman
EP Delegation for Relations with
Belarus
European Parliament
EU-Belarus relations
32
Co-President
Euronest Parliamentary Assembly
Member
European Parliament since 2007 from
the Group of the Progressive Alliance of
Socialists and Democrats
1/2014 Evgeni Kirilov
Member
EP Committees on Foreign Affairs,
Security and Defence, Regional
Development
The EU’s Eastern Partnership
and Belarus
Member
EP Delegations for relations with the
countries from the South Caucasus and
with the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia
Honourable Member
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe
1/2014 Qimiao Fan
Country Director for Belarus, Moldova
and Ukraine
The World Bank
Belarus needs bold and
comprehensive reforms to achieve
sustainable growth
1/2014 Maira Mora
Ambassador
Head of Delegation
Delegation of the European Union to
Belarus
EU-Belarus – necessary
partnership
1/2014 Francis Delaey
Head
Minsk Resident Office
EBRD
Unleashing Belarus’ potential
1/2014 Alexander Ostrovsky
Ambassador of Belarus to Finland
Eurasian integration – benefits
for European businesses
Rector
Belarusian State University
1/2014 Sergey V. Ablameyko
Doctor of Science
Academician
National Academy of Science
Belarus
33
Belarusian-Finnish cooperation
in education and science – case
of BSU
Chairman
Juha Hämäläinen
1/2014
Juuso Viitikko
1/2014 Antti O.K. Nieminen
Topi Paananen
Director
Finnish Belarusian Chamber of
Commerce
Finland
Ph.D., Adjunct Professor
Managing Director
Kiilto Oy
Finland
Belarus – developing economy
Kiilto Oy – first steps in the
adhesives business in Belarus
CEO
Peikko Group Corporation
Finland
1/2014
Peikko Group and Belarus
Andrei Naumovich
1/2014 Pavel Laschenko
Managing Director
Peikko BelRus FLLC
Belarus
Country Managing Partner for Belarus
Ernst & Young
Belarus
Business environment in Belarus
today
Doctor of Economics
1/2014 Halina Shmarlouskaya
1/2014 Irina Yeremeyeva
Dean
School of International Economic
Relations
Belarus State Economic University
Belarus
Belarusian State Economic University
Belarus
External economic potential of
the Republic of Belarus –
economic outlook
EU-Belarus relations – threats
and political opportunities
President
Sierž Naūrodski
CASE Fellow
Uladzimir Valetka
CASE Belarus
Belarus
1/2014
Aleksei Bykov
1/2014
Anna Zezulkina
Securities market in Belarus –
still undisclosed potential
Dr. in Economics, Professor
Belarus
34
Measuring risks of regional
development – case of Belarus
1/2014 Elena A. Dostanko
Director
Center for International Studies
Belarus
Belarusian-Finnish relations
1/2014 Hanna Smith
Researcher
Aleksanteri Institute
Finland
Eurasian integration as a
defining factor in Belarusian
foreign policy
1/2014 Uladzimir Rouda
Ph.D. in Political Science
Professor
European Humanities University
Lithuania
The crisis of the Belarusian
economic model
1/2014 Dzmitry Kruk
Researcher
Belarusian Economic Research and
Outreach Centre
Belarus
Belarus – a chance to convert
past mistakes into new
advantages
1/2014 Galina Gavrilko
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Relations
Belarus
Integration on the territory of
the former Soviet Union – a
search for an optimum model
1/2014 Kari Liuhto
Professor, Director
University of Turku
Finland
How the Finnish firms view the
Belarus business environment?
7/2013 Lauri Ihalainen
Minister of Labour
Finland
The Finnish marine industry in
the midst of structural change
7/2013 Ari Puheloinen
General Commander
Finnish Defence Forces
Finland
Security in the Baltic Sea area
7/2013 Eeva-Johanna Eloranta
MA, MSSc
Member of Parliament of Finland
Member of the City Council of Turku
Member of the Nordic Council
Finland
The Baltic connection
7/2013 Jukka Kopra
Regional Council of South-Carelia
Finland
Economic growth in SouthEastern Finland
35
7/2013 Ritva Koukku-Ronde
Ambassador of Finland
to the United States of America
The Baltic Sea region has a role
in transatlantic relations
7/2013 Elisabeth Kerher
Austrian ambassador in Finland
Austria and Finland – a
partnership with room for
improvement
Founder and Chairman of the Board
Baltic Sea2020 Foundation
Björn Carlson
Valery Gergiev
7/2013 Juha Nurminen
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Counductor
Artistic and General Director of the
Mariinsky Theatre and co-founder of
the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm
Founder and Chairman of the Board
The Baltic Sea orchestra is
playing out of tune
Composer and conductor
Co-founder of the Baltic Sea Festival in
Stockholm
Michael Tydén
General Manager of Berwaldhallen
Co-founder of the Baltic Sea Festival in
Stockholm
7/2013 Alex Prilutskii
Dr., Rev., General Secretary
The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of
Ingria
Russia
Evangelical-Lutheran Church of
Ingria
7/2013 Ilya Ermakov
Senior Adviser: Economic Cooperation,
Maritime Policy, Energy
Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS)
CBSS Expert Group on maritime
policy – towards better
coherence among actors in the
Baltic Sea region
7/2013 Janne Laine
Mayor
Savonlinna
Finland
Cooperation with Russia
benefits Eastern Finland
7/2013 Maksim Meyksin
Chairman
Committee for Industrial Policy and
Innovations
City of St. Petersburg
Russia
Innovation development of St.
Petersburg
7/2013 Irina Gladysheva
Minister of Economic Development and
Competition Policy
Territory available for investors
The Arkhangelsk region
Russia
36
7/2013 José Valanta
City of Vantaa
Finland
Vantaa – Finland's link with
the world
7/2013 Juhani Pekkala
Managing Director
Finnish Commerce Federation
Finland
The Baltic is a challenge to trade
7/2013 Kari Häyrinen
CEO & President
Finpro
Finland
Finland welcomes foreign
investors
7/2013 Timo Pietiläinen
Head of Representative Office
Finnvera Plc, St. Petersburg
Russia
Finnvera promotes the
internationalisation of SMEs in
Russia
7/2013 Yuri Piskulov
Dr. (Econ.), Professor
Russian Foreign Trade Academy and
Russian State Academy of Intellectual
Property Rights
Editor
Journal “Mezhdunarodnaya
ekonomika”
Russia
The joint global competitiveness
– an ambitious goal of trade
policy between Russia and
Finland
7/2013 Petri Lahesmaa
Director, EU Affairs
The Beneficiaries of Finnish Lottery
Belgium
Responsible gaming system – the
most efficient way to prevent
money laundering
7/2013 Markku Kivikoski
President
Tampere University of Technology
Finland
Technology for the benefit of
people and the environment
Rector
Leonids Ribickis
Advisor to the Rector
Arturs Zeps
Riga Technical University
Latvia
7/2013
Role of advisory council in
developing competitive
technological universities
7/2013 Matti Manninen
Rector
University of Jyväskylä
Finland
University of Jyväskylä – ahead
of its time for 150 years
7/2013 Anatoly Voronin
Rector
Russia
cooperation with the Finnish
universities and organizations
37
7/2013 Kalle-Antti Suominen
Professor in Physics
Vice-rector for Research
University of Turku
Finland
University of Turku – with
research to better future
7/2013 Hannu Salmela
Vice Dean
Finland
The future of business education
7/2013 Matti Lievonen
President & CEO
Neste Oil
Finland
An oil company’s perspective on
operating in the Baltic Rim
Professor, Executive Director
Klaus Töpfer
7/2013
Carolin Sperk
Research Assistant
Institute for Advanced Sustainability
Studies Potsdam
Germany
Germany’s energy policy –
responsibility and chance for
sustainable development
7/2013 Frank Apel
Senior Vice President Sales Central
Europe and Nordic Countries
AREVA GmbH
AREVA in a key position to
support Baltic Rim countries in
their future energy strategy
7/2013 Jukka Ruusunen
President and CEO
Fingrid Oyj
Finland
Towards a Northern Dimension
electricity market?
7/2013 Denis Kolchin
Associate Professor
Investment and Innovation Chair
Finance University under the
Government of the Russian Federation
Russia
Risks and opportunities analysis
in the oil and gas industry of
Russia
Artur Usanov
7/2013
Alexander Kharin
7/2013 Jānis Bērziņš
Strategic Analyst
The Hague Centre of Strategic Studies
The Netherlands
Lecturer
Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad
Russia
Director
Center for Security and Strategic
Research
Latvia
38
Oil production in Kaliningrad
Financial markets and the threat
for European security
7/2013 Sakari Martimo
7/2013 Tomasz Szatkowski
Capt (N)
Commandant
Finnish Naval Academy
Finland
President
National Centre for Strategic Studies
Foundation
Poland
Asmus Fellow
German Marshall Fund of the United
States
The Finnish Naval Academy –
international cooperation
Poland and prospects for defence
cooperation with Nordic
countries
7/2013 Kari Huhta
Diplomatic Editor
Helsingin Sanomat
Finland
Debating NATO in Finland and
Sweden – some wind, less
motion
7/2013 Lauri Kontro
Editor-in-Chief
Maaseudun Tulevaisuus
Finland
Northern Europe as a model
region for agriculture
St. Petersburg bureau chief
Vedomosti Russian business daily
7/2013 Anna Scherbakova
Guest lecturer
School of Journalism and Mass
Communications of St.Petersburg State
University
Russia
Investment climate of St.
Petersburg in the mirror of media
7/2013 Jürgen Sorgenfrei
Dr., Director Consulting
IHS Global
Germany
German Baltic ports – forecast
2030
7/2013 Sturla Henriksen
CEO
Norwegian Shipowners’ Association
Norway
High North – high stakes:
maritime activities in the Arctic
7/2013 Stephen Blank
Senior Fellow
American Foreign Policy Council
The United States of America
The Arctic as a manifestation of
international transformation
7/2013 Ulrika Larpes
Attorney-at-law
Representative for the Shipowners´
Foundation
Finland
Shipping as a strategic enabler
for Finnish industry
39
7/2013 Beata Madejska
Lawyer
BSR InnoShip project
Poland
Lower emissions from ships in
the light of provisions of
“sulphur directive” adopted by
the European Union
7/2013 Jaakko Mäkikalli
Marketing Manager
Turku Fair & Congress Center
Finland
The power of personal and
genuine encounters – the key to
the success of fairs
7/2013 Shinichiro Tabata
Professor
Slavic Research Center
Hokkaido University
Japan
Will the boom in Japan-Russia
economic relations continue?
D.Sc., Professor
Aalto University School of Business
Finland
7/2013 Henrikki Tikkanen
Professor
Stockholm University School of
Business
Sweden
Large Finnish companies’
international business strategies
– an outlook
Visiting Professor
Asian Institute of Technology
Thailand
7/2013 Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Professor of Finnish history
University of Turku
Finland
Maternity health – political
issue in 18th century Finland
and Sweden
7/2013 Jukka Korpela
PhD, Professor of History
Head of the Department of
Geographical and Historical Studies
Finland
Positive and negative market
forces in university life
7/2013 Yuri Mazurov
Professor
Moscow State Lomonosov University
Russia
Sport in modern society –
reflections on the eve of the
Olympic Games in Sochi
7/2013 Petri Minkkinen
Dr., Researcher and Chair
Science and Art Association KAKTUS
Finland
Karelia in the Finnish-Russian
relations
7/2013 Kirsti Virtanen
International Relations Manager
Finland
Russian cooperation in Finnish
universities of applied sciences
40
7/2013 Dmitry Gudimenko
CEO, Capital Development Group Ltd.
Member of the board, Construction
Company SUART
Helsinki – St. Petersburg
Urban development cooperation
in the Baltic region
7/2013 Tomas Janeliūnas
Associate Professor
Institute of International Relations
and Political Science
Vilnius University
Lithuania
Third party in the EU EaP
Programme
7/2013 Ihor Lishchynskyy
Head of International Relations
Department
Ternopil National Economic University
Ukraine
International relations of
Ternopil National Economic
University and Baltic Rim
universities
Dr., Associate Lecturer
Department of History
University of Reading
UK
7/2013 Matthew Broad
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Political History
University of Turku
Finland
6/2013
Jochen Schulte
Roger Jansson
6/2013 Janne Tamminen
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Rapporteur of the Baltic Sea
Parliamentary Conference BSPC
on Integrated Maritime Policy
Former Chairman of the BSPC
Working Group on Integrated
Maritime Policy
Vice President of the
Åland Parliament
Rapporteur of the Baltic Sea
Parliamentary Conference BSPC
on Integrated Maritime Policy
Former Vice Chairman of the BSPC
Working Group on Integrated
Maritime Policy
Executive Secretary
CPMR Baltic Sea Commission
41
Anglo-Nordic relations – past,
present, future
The maritime agenda of the
Rapporteurs of the Baltic Sea
Parliamentary Conference on
Integrated Maritime Policy
The future of maritime regions
around the Baltic Sea
6/2013
Gun Rudeberg
Chris Wooldridge
Legal Counsel and Head of
Environmental Affairs at
Ports of Stockholm
Chairman of the European
Sea Port Organization’s
Sustainable Development
Committee
Clean Baltic Sea – the role of
ports
Dr., Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Cardiff University, UK
Science Coordinator & Senior Trainer
Eco-SLC
6/2013 Emil Arolski
Project Manager
LNG in Baltic Sea Ports & Baltic
Ports Organization
Baltic Ports Organization
c/o Actia Forum Ltd
LNG in Baltic Sea Ports Project
6/2013 Stefan Jankowski
Maritime University Szczecin
Poland
Possibilities for the use of LNG
as a fuel on the Baltic Sea
6/2013 Gonçalo Carneiro
Programme Manager / Consultant
NIRAS International Consulting
Stockholm
Sweden
Maritime spatial planning – a
new layer in integrated marine
management
6/2013 Michael Baldauf
Dr.-Ing, Associate Professor
Maritime Safety and Environmental
Administration, Chief Instructor
Maritime Simulation
MaRiSa – Research group
'Maritime Risk and System Safety'
World Maritime University
Malmö
Sweden
e-Navigation – a key for safe,
efficient and sustainable
shipping
6/2013 Proshanto K. Mukherjee
Professor
Lund University
Sweden
The international legal
framework of MONALISA
6/2013 Mikko Varjanne
M.Sc. Economics
Chief Operative Officer
SHIPSU.com
Using modern web-based
solutions in connecting marine
industry professionals
6/2013 Raphaël Baumler
Containership gigantism –
reaching the limits of
uncertainty
42
Professor, Vice President
(Academics)
6/2013
Neil Bellefontaine
Ilias Visvikis
Associate Professor
Director of Executive and
Professional Development
The current and future needs of
postgraduate maritime education
6/2013 Urszula Kowalczyk
Head of Economics and Law
Department
Maritime Institute Gdansk
Poland
Current trends in the Polish
maritime industry
Director
6/2013
Alari Purju
Eva Branten
6/2013 Sari Nyroos
Research Assistant
Department of Logistics, Tallinn
University of Technology
Estonia
Training Manager
Centre for Maritime Studies
University of Turku
Finland
Maritime sector stakeholders
and new regulations
SmartComp – Finnish
perspective through national
consultation days
SmartComp project partner
6/2013
Esta Kaal
Kaja Tampere
Professor of communication
management
SmartComp project consultant
Tallinn University
Institute of Communication
Estonia
Does the Central Baltic region
maritime cluster need a brand?
6/2013 Tony Munoz
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
The Maritime Executive
The USA
Surging U.S. energy production
revives maritime sector
6/2013 Arto Kuuluvainen
PhD, Research Manager
Centre for Collaborative Research
University of Turku
Finland
Finnish marine SMEs in Brazil
Researcher
6/2013
Makiko Kubo
Researcher
Takuma Matsuda
Japan Maritime Center
Japan
43
Seafarer demand forecast based
on economic conditions
6/2013 Ari Virtanen
Head of Finland Trade Center
Finpro
South Korea
Korean marine industry and
opportunities for Baltic region
Head of Trade Center
Finpro
China
Jari Makkonen
6/2013
Sari Arho Havrén
6/2013 Minghui Gao
PhD, Consul (Innovation)
Consulate General of Finland
Shanghai
TEKES
China
Research Assistant
University of Turku
Finland
Common value chains in East
Asia – case shipbuilding
Skyrocketing Chinese maritime
cluster and its future
development with international
partners
Project Researcher
Eini Laaksonen
6/2013
Hanna Mäkinen
Project Researcher
University of Turku
Finland
The booming maritime sector in
the Far East – what’s in it for
Finnish companies?
5/2013 Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
President of Latvia (1999-2007)
Latvia
What kind of Latvia in what
kind of Europe?
5/2013 Algirdas Butkevičius
Prime Minister
Lithuania
Lithuanian success – from crisis
towards credible European
Union
5/2013 Arvydas Pocius
Lieutenant General
Chief of Defense
Lithuania
Back to the family – two
decades of military-to-military
U.S.-Baltic relationship
5/2013 Andris Vilks
Minister of Finance
Latvia
The euro – the key driving force
in competition to promote
sustainable growth
5/2013 Päivi Räsänen
Minister of the Interior
Finland
Finland prepares for increased
eastern mobility and possible
visa-free travel between EU and
Russia
5/2013 Rein Lang
Minister of Culture
Estonia
Like minded Baltic cultures
44
5/2013 Hannes Swoboda
President
Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in
the European Parliament
A new transatlantic alliance
must be based on shared values
and shared objectives
5/2013 Jouni Backman
Chairman of the Social Democratic
Parliamentary Group
Finland
The Silicon Sea?
5/2013 Anu Urpalainen
Member of Parliament of Finland
Member of City Council of Imatra
Finland
The Russian border – yesterday´s
curse, today´s possibility
5/2013 Ine Eriksen Søreide
MP for the Norwegian Conservative
Party (Høyre)
Norway
The “non-race to the Arctic” –
some observations from Norway
5/2013 Olli-Pekka Heinonen
State Secretary
Prime Minister’s Office
Finland
The change of the Arctic
geography
5/2013 Petteri Taalas
Professor
Director-General
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Finland
Baltic maritime safety and
research know-how is applicable
in the Arctic
5/2013 Alexander Sergunin
Russia
Is Russia a revisionist or status
quo power in the Arctic?
5/2013 Jørg Willy Bronebakk
Ambassador
Royal Norwegian Embassy
in Finland
Managing the Arctic –
challenges and opportunities
5/2013 Urban Rusnák
Secretary General
Energy Charter Secretariat
Shifting the parameters of the
debate on global energy
challenges – investment needs to
become the buzzword
5/2013 Galymzhan Koishybayev
Ambassador
Embassy of the Republic of
Kazakhstan to the Republic of Finland
New opportunities for
cooperation with Kazakhstan
5/2013 Monika Sztajerowska
Trade Policy Analyst
OECD
Russia’s first year in the WTO –
hip, hip hooray?
Rector
5/2013
Yaroslav Kuzminov and
Isak Froumin
Academic Supervisor
HSE Graduate School of Education
Russia
45
Universal higher education and
its social and economic impact –
case of Russia
5/2013 Jyri Häkämies
Director General
Confederation of Finnish Industries,
EK
Finland
Baltic Sea market – new era,
new challenges
5/2013 Antti Sippola
CEO (acting)
SOK
Finland
S Group seeks growth from its
neighbouring countries
5/2013 Markku Andersson
Mayor
City of Jyväskylä
Finland
Jyväskylä and the Union of the
Baltic Cities
5/2013 Jukka Savolainen
Capt (CG)
Commander of West Finland Coast
Guard District
Finland
West Finland coast guard
district – slimming down with
help of synergies and technical
applications
5/2013 Jarkko Saksa
Deputy DG
Finnish Customs
Finland
Maritime traffic at the threshold
of the new customs regime
5/2013 Juha Mutru
Managing Director
Finnish Port Operators Association
Mutru
Finland
Finnish harbours in Russia's
transit traffic
5/2013 Katri Pynnöniemi
Researcher
Affairs
Finland
A new matrix for Russia’s
shipbuilding industry? Civilianmilitary and public-private
partnerships
5/2013 Veijo Hyvönen
Managing Editor, Economic and
Business News
Turun Sanomat (the third largest daily
newspaper in Finland)
Finland
Eurozone's model student
Finland fell into a debt trap
5/2013 Jānis Ikstens
Director
Advanced Social and Political Research
Institute
Latvia
Latvia and euro – a window of
opportunity
5/2013 Kim Talus
Professor of European Law University
of Eastern Finland
Finland
Regulatory exemption for the
Finnish–Baltic gas markets –
the impact of an LNG terminal
5/2013 Joseph Dutton
Global Gas Security Project
University of Leicester
The UK
The global gas revolution – why
European shale might not matter
46
5/2013
Mikhail I. Levinbuk and
Dmitry Yu. Murzin
Professor
Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical
Synthesis, Moscow
Russia
Professor
Åbo Akademi University, Turku
Finland
Oil refining in Russia – time for
a change
5/2013 Rafal Bajczuk
Expert
Department for Germany and Northern
Europe
Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW),
Warsaw
Poland
Germany’s energy
transformation and the coal
‘renaissance’
5/2013 Ionut Purica
Dr., Senior Researcher
Institute for Economic Forecasting
The Romanian Academy
Romania
From the Varangians to the
Greeks – critical infrastructures
interconnector
5/2013 Päivi Ilves
Programme Director
South-East Finland – Russia ENPI
CBC 2007-2013
Finland
Development of regional
cooperation between South-East
Finland and St. Petersburg and
Leningrad Region
5/2013 Heikki Aalto
CEO
Bothnian Arc
Finland
Bothnian Arc – vital crossborder area in northernmost part
of the Baltic Sea
5/2013
Roland Trill and AnnaLena Pohl
Dr., Professor for Business Studies,
Hospital Management and eHealth
Management Secretariat of the eHealth
for Regions Network
Flensburg University of Applied
Sciences
MA, Management Secretariat of the
eHealth for Regions Network
Flensburg University of Applied
Sciences
Cross-border cooperation in
eHealth issues in the Baltic Sea
Region – the eHealth for regions
network as facilitator and
booster
Germany
5/2013 Aniela Tejchman
Head of International Relations Office
Gdansk University of Technology
Poland
Gdansk University of
Technology and its cooperation
in the Baltic Sea Region
Indiana University/Bloomington
5/2013
Michael Alexeev and
Robert Conrad
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Russia’s small business tax
Economics
regimes
Duke University
The USA
47
Subproject Manager
University of Turku
Finland
Johanna Aaltonen,
Graham Appleby, María
5/2013
Fernanda Bocángel and
Taina Laiho
Graham Appleby
Industrial Liaison Officer
DESY
Germany
María Fernanda Bocángel
Communication Manager
Invest in Skåne
Sweden
Science Link adds value to
BSR's industry and SMEs
Taina Laiho
Project Researcher
University of Turku
Finland
5/2013 Eero Aro
Senior Scientist
Finnish Game and Fisheries Research
Institute
Finland
Sustainable exploitation of the
Baltic Sea fish resources require
integration of thinking
5/2013 Henrik Meinander
Dr., Professor of History
Finland
Context matters
5/2013 Veikko Saksi
MA (Econ.), Editor-in-Chief
Karjalan Kuvalehti
Finland
Finnophobia replaces
finlandization
5/2013 Helene Carlbäck
Associate Professor in History
former Director of the Centre for Baltic
and East European Studies
Södertörn University
Sweden
Gender equality the Nordic way
– an asset in soft diplomacy
towards the Baltic Sea Region?
5/2013 Li Bennich-Björkman
Johan Skytte Professor in Eloquentia
Research Director Uppsala
Centre for Russian and Eurasian
Studies (UCRS)
Uppsala University
Sweden
Baltic States – choices on
citizenship and Western
integration
5/2013 Oleg Bukhovets
Doctor of History Science, Professor
Head of the Department of Political
Sciences
Belarus
How can the post-Soviet
countries use the Belarusian
subsurface regulations?
5/2013 Valentina Simkhovich
Doctor of sociology, Professor
Dean of the Faculty of Management
Belarus
Belarus is pregnant with charity
48
5/2013 Kari Liuhto
Professor at the University of Turku
Director of the Centrum Balticum
Foundation
Finland
NATO occupies a half of
Russia’s foreign economic
relations
4/2013 Merja Kyllönen
Minister for Transport
Finland
Developing the competitiveness
of Finnish maritime cluster
4/2013 Michael Prehn
Deputy Director
Danish Maritime
Denmark
Maritime industry in the North
4/2013 Elena G. Efimova
Professor of World Economy
Department
Russia
Russian shipbuilding industry –
inside the WTO
4/2013 Heikki Liimatainen
Researcher
Transport Research Centre Verne
Finland
Baltic Sea 2030 – trends and
scenarios
4/2013 Vesa Marttinen
Managing Director
Turku Repair Yard Ltd.
part of BLRT Grupp
Finland
North-European marine
industries – lifecycle business
with local shipping,
infrastructure and natural
resource operators
4/2013 Kimmo Iljin
CEO
Turku Stevedoring Oy
Finland
Port of Turku as part of the
development of the maritime
cluster in the Baltic Sea region
4/2013 Kimmo Mäki
Managing Director
Port of Helsinki
Finland
Port of Helsinki foresees growth
in traffic to Tallinn
4/2013 Annemari Andrésen
Manager
PBI Research Institute
Finland
Finnish logistics cluster
4/2013 Jussi Mälkiä
President
Meriaura Group
Finland
Baltic short sea shipping – a
strategy for survival
4/2013 Eija Kanto
Executive Adviser
Finnish Shipowners’ Association
Finland
Shipping is the greenest
transportation mode but is faced
to be even greener
4/2013 Teemu Makkonen
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Turku
Finland
Innovation and competitiveness
– the future of the maritime
companies
49
4/2013 Kari Laine
Dr., Principal Lecturer
Satakunta University of Applied
Sciences
Finland
Open innovation between firms
and universities
4/2013 Maria Mustonen
Project Manager
TFK Transport Research Institute
Sweden
The dilemma of vessel noise
4/2013 Jouni Saarni
Project Researcher
Centre for Collaborative Research
University of Turku
Finland
Dynamic capabilities in Finnish
maritime industry during the
years of weak demand and
uncertainty from 2009 to 2012
4/2013 Teijo Niemelä
Editor and Publisher
Cruise Business Review
The USA and Finland
Shipbuilding industry needs a
sustainable orderbook to survive
4/2013 Kimmo Juurmaa
Managing Director
Offshore Technology Center Oy
Finland
Finnish maritime industry –
observations from the IFCO
project
Project Researcher
Project Researcher
4/2013
Eini Laaksonen and
Hanna Mäkinen
University of Turku
Finland
How to support the
competitiveness and networking
of the maritime clusters in the
Central Baltic region?
3/2013 Joaquín Almunia
Vice President responsible for
Competition Policy
European Commission
Government subsidies and the
internal market – another
evolutionary step for Europe’s
State aid policy
3/2013 Jari Koskinen
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
Finland
Finland will meet the renewable
targets with forest energy
3/2013 Urmas Paet
Estonia
NATO and the Baltic Sea
Region – an Estonian
perspective
3/2013 Viktor Mayko
Deputy Minister
Ukraine
Ukraine – in search of success in
the modern world
3/2013 Romana Jordan
Slovenian Member
European Parliament
The role of nuclear energy in
European sustainable energy mix
3/2013 Sampo Terho
Member
European Parliament
The Baltic Sea: stable and safe –
for now
50
3/2013 Vilja Savisaar-Toomast
Member
Committee on Transport and Tourism
European Parliament
Rail Baltica and Baltic-Adriatic
Growth corridor influence to the
regional cohesion policy
3/2013 Nils Torvalds
Member
European Parliament
In a sea of challenges
3/2013 Tom Packalén
Finland
Security policy in the north
3/2013 Arto Satonen
Member of Parliament, Vice-Chairman
National Coalition Party’s
Parliamentary Group
Finland
Tuition fees in Finland for
foreign students outside of
EU/EEA -area
Ambassador of Finland in Poland
Baltic Sea region at the heart of
Poland's and Finland’s foreign
policy
3/2013 Arthur König
Dr., Mayor
City of Greifswald
Germany
Greifswald and its international
activities within the Baltic Sea
Region
3/2013 Sverker Göranson
General, Supreme Commander
Swedish Armed Forces
Sweden
Security in the Baltic Sea region
3/2013 Jaakko Kaukanen
Chief of the Finnish Border Guard
Lieutenant General
Finland
The Baltic Sea countries are
fore-runners in cooperation in
coast guard functions
3/2013
3/2013
Janusz Niesyto and Jari
Vilén
Arunas Molis and
Florinda Giacomelli
3/2013 Claes Levinsson
Ambassador of Poland in Finland
Dr., Chief
Strategic Analysis and Research
Division
NATO ENSEC COE
Lithuania
MIREES Master student
University of Bologna
Italy
Intern
NATO ENSEC COE
Lithuania
Director
Uppsala Centre for Russian and
Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
Uppsala University
Sweden
51
Operational energy security in
NATO context – looking to the
future
Baltic security – a word of
caution
3/2013 Slava Khodko
Scientific Adviser
Center on Cross-Border and
Interregional Cooperation
Higher School of Economics, St.
Petersburg branch
Russia
The Baltic Sea Region –
strategies, projects and
cooperation
3/2013 Kai Paananen
CEO
SET Group Oy
Finland
Opportunities for Finland – the
Arctic and Russia
3/2013 Esko Mustamäki
Managing Director
Arctech Helsinki Shipyard Inc.
Finland
The Arctic shipbuilding market –
a real opportunity or a distant
dream?
Member of Board of Directors
Helsinki Sustainability Center
3/2013 Kari Liuhto
3/2013 Carsten Ørts Hansen
3/2013
Olli-Pekka Brunila and
Anni Anttila
Professor, Director
University of Turku
Finland
Associate Professor
CBS Maritime
Copenhagen Business School
Denmark
Researcher
University of Turku
Maritime Logistics Research Unit in
Kotka
Finland
The Nordic Countries on the top
of the world in snow-how
Shipping in the Baltic Sea –
stormy waters ahead?
Green co-operation in the eastern
Gulf of Finland
Project manager
Kymenlaakso University of Applied
Science
Finland
3/2013 Juha Kalli
Project engineer
University of Turku
Finland
Baltic maritime transport on
rough sea
3/2013 Marc Auboin
Counsellor
Economic Research and Statistics
Division
WTO
The WTO Academic Programme
and Saint-Petersburg State
University
52
3/2013 Fredrik Erixon
Director, Co-founder
European Centre for International
Political Economy (ECIPE) (a worldeconomy think tank based in Brussels)
Belgium
Russia in the World Trade
Organisation – improving the
chances of success
Professor, Head, WTO Chair holder
Sergey F. Sutyrin and
3/2013
Olga Y. Trofimenko
3/2013 Vladimir Salamatov
Associate Professor
World Economy Department
Russia
Vladimir Salamatov
Director General
World Trade Center Moscow
Russia
Does Russian accession to the
WTO matter for the
competitiveness of domestic
companies?
Evolution of regulatory
measures – from tariff to nontariff
Doctor of Physics and Mathematics,
Professor, Vice-Rector for Academic
Affairs
Ihar Hancharonak and
3/2013
Tatyana Prannik
PhD, Associate Professor
Director of the Centre for International
Cooperation and Educational
Programmes
Educational integration for
sustainable economic
development
Academy of Public Administration
under the aegis of the President of the
Republic of Belarus
3/2013 Sergey Kizima
Head
Department of International Relations
under the aegies of the President of the
Republic of Belarus
Chinese vector of Eurasian
integration
3/2013 Olga S. Shimova
Dr. hab. (Economics), Professor
Belarus
Environmental economics for
3/2013 Eduard Simchanka
Professor
Institute for Parliamentary and
Entrepreneurship
Minsk
Belarus
Small and medium enterprises in
Belarus – status and problems
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3/2013
Elena Dadzerkina and
Maria Usik
PhD, Doctoral Candidate
The Academy of Public Administration
under the aegis of the President of the
Belarus
Student
The 5th course of The Academy of
Public Administration under the aegis
of the President of the Republic of
Belarus
Status and prospects for
development of rail transport in
Belarus
Partner Projects Manager, RVC
Daria Lipatova, Pekka
Viljakainen, Evgenia
3/2013
Mayer and Sergey
Blintsov
Advisor to the President Skolkovo
Foundation
Head of Partner Department, RVC
Russian startup tour – bringing
international experience to
Russian regions
Head of Zvorykinsky Project
Russia
The TRIPADA concept – a road
map for concretely turning
Russian innovations to local and
global benefits!
Partner
Ilkka Linnakko and
3/2013
Tomas Rosin
CEO, Partner
TRIDARA
3/2013 Tero Piispanen
Program Director
Finnish HealthBIO cluster
VP
ScanBalt
Finland
Early stage growth financing is
needed in the growing Life
Sciences sector
3/2013 Sari Autio-Sarasmo
PhD, Research Coordinator
Finland
Technology transfer between
East and West and Russia’s
economic modernisation
3/2013
Nikolay M. Megevich
and Simon J. Chernyak
Master of European Studies
Russia
Cross-border innovation
strategies – Russian-Finnish
experience
3/2013 Arkady Ryabichenko
Junior Research Fellow
Social and economic Studies centre
University
Russia
Russian innovative ambitions as
positive factor for country image
in Nordic
3/2013 Vlad Ivanenko
Senior energy economist
Canadian Ministry of Natural
Resources
Canada
Is the price of Russian natural
gas inflated for the Baltic Rim?
54
PhD, Professor, Director
Contemporary Foreign Policy Studies
Centre
Former Bulgarian Ambassador to
Finland and Estonia
Bulgaria
3/2013 Gennady Kretinin
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor,
Director REC Baltic region
On the perspectives of building
Manager
nuclear power plant in
Baltic Research and Information Center
Lithuania
Russian Institute of Strategic Research
Russia
3/2013 Elena Paltseva
Research Fellow
SITE
Stockholm School of Economics
Sweden
Visiting Professor
New Economic School
Russia
Energy development in SouthEast Europe and the Baltic Sea
region – similar problems, similar
prospects
Supply diversification and
allocation of bargaining power
in the EU-Russia gas
relationship
3/2013 Vladimir Feygin
President
Institute for Energy and Finance
Russia
On interactions between energy
markets
3/2013 Pekka Hakanen
Editor on Financial Affairs
Turun Sanomat
Finland
Russian roulette with gas
3/2013 Simonas Klimanskis
Deputy Director
Lithuanian Institute of Development
of Social Market Economy
Lithuania
The Baltic Sea Region – the
positive steps towards ensuring
energy security
3/2013 Romas Švedas
Independent Expert, Lecturer Institute
of International Relations and Political
Science
Vilnius University
Lithuania
Energy in Baltics – the last
phase of Eurointegration
Professor
Institute of European Studies
Mihails Rodins,
3/2013 Aleksandr Gaponenko
and Inna Dovladbekova
Dr.oec., Director
Faculty of European Studies
Rigas Stradins University
Lithuania's energy sector –
trends and problems of
development
Latvia
3/2013 David Dusseault
Senior Market Analyst
Gasum OY
Finland
55
Global energy markets – the
view from Espoo
3/2013 Nikolay Dobronravin
Professor
St.Petersburg University
Russia
Energy politics in the Baltic Sea
Region – new Russian
perspectives?
3/2013 Jack Sharples
PhD Candidate
University of Glasgow
The UK
Gazprom and the development
of spot-pricing on the EU gas
market
3/2013 Juho Rahkonen
PhD, Research Manager
Taloustutkimus Oy
Finland
Visa-free travel between EU
and Russia might be true in the
near future
3/2013 Andrei Yakovlev
Director
Institute for Industrial and Market
Studies
National Research University –
Higher School of Economics
Vice President
Association of Russian Economic Think
Tanks (ARETT)
Russia
In search of new mechanisms for
state-business interaction
and Development
The 2013 Cyprus bailout and the
Russian foreign direct
investment platform
3/2013 Wladimir Andreff
Professor Emeritus
University Paris 1
Panthéon Sorbonne
Honorary Member of the European
Association for Comparative Economic
Studies
France
Russian multinational
companies and state capitalism
3/2013 Morten Hansen
Head of Economics Department
Latvia
Joining the Eurozone – Latvia’s
destiny?
3/2013 Timo Hellenberg
CEO
Hellenberg International Limited
Finland
From enlargement to
enhancement – towards a civil
security financial instrument of
the Baltic Sea Region?
3/2013 Marek Dabrowski
Fellow
CASE – Center for Social and
Economic Research
Warsaw
Poland
Inflation and monetary policy in
CIS countries
3/2013 Erkki Laukkanen
DSc (Econ), Chairman
Transparency Finland
Finland
Corruption line in Baltics – the
key differences between key
countries
56
3/2013 Lars Johannsen
Government
Business and Social Science
Aarhus University
Denmark
Bumps ahead
3/2013 Stanisław Bieleń
Professor
University of Warsaw
Editor of the Journal Stosunki
Międzynarodowe-International
Relations
Poland
The chances for reconciliation
between Poland and Russia
Executive Director
Baltic Region Healthy Cities
Association – WHO Collaboration
Centre of Urban Health and Healthy
Cities in the Baltic Region
Finland
15 years of support for cities’
urban health planning in the
Baltic Region
3/2013 Helmut Klüter
Dr., Professor
Institut für Geographie und Geologie
Germany
Rural areas of Eastern Germany
3/2013 Ivan Gumeniuk
Dr., Research Associate
The Institute of Environmental
Management, Territorial Development
and Urban Construction
University
Russia
The Interreg IIIB BSR
programme as a tool for
developing a unified transport
system in the Baltic macroregion
Anatoly Anishenko and
3/2013
Aigars Rostovskis
3/2013 Gennady Fedorov
Deputy General Director
Nizhny Novgorod Region Chamber of
Commerce and Industry
Russia
PhD, Chairman
Development Council
Turiba University
Latvia
Professor, Director
Institute of Environmental
Management, Spatial Development and
Urban Planning
University
Russia
57
Promoting business education in
the Baltic Sea Region – the case
of the Latvian-Russian
cooperation
New opportunities for
Kaliningrad in the development
of Russia-EU relations
3/2013 Vladimir Balobaev
Researcher
University
Kaliningrad
Russia
Possible strategies for the
Kaliningrad region 2013
2/2013 Klavs A. Holm
Under-Secretary for Arctic Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Denmark
The Arctic – regional challenges
with global consequences
2/2013 Hannu Halinen
Ambassador for Arctic Affairs
Finland
Arctic cooperation and business
2/2013 Martti Hahl
President
Barents Center Finland Oy
Finland
What’s next in the Arctic?
Kirsi-Maarit
2/2013
Poljatschenko
Head of Trade Center
Finpro ry, Operations and Network
Finland Trade Center in St. Petersburg
Russia
Arctic of Russia – freezing hot
business topic
2/2013 Kari Synberg
Ph.D in Geography
University on Eastern Finland
Committee member of Geographical
Society of Finland
Russia and the Arctic
Researcher
Affairs
Finland
Russia’s new Arctic strategy
identifies vulnerabilities but
targets modernization
2/2013 Timo Koivurova
Research professor, Director
The Northern Institute for
Environmental and Minority Law
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
Finland
Resource exploitation in the
Arctic: incorrect diagnoses,
misinterpretations and wrong
solutions – how to avoid these?
Research Director of the IES KSC RAS
Vladimir Didyk and
2/2013
Larissa Riabova
2/2013 Vesa Rautio
Head of department of social policy in
the North
Luzin Institute for Economic Studies
The Kola Science Centre
Russia
Academy Research Fellow
University of Turku
Finland
58
Socio-economic development of
the Murmansk region – trends
and prospects
The Russian North going global
2/2013 Morten Anker
Principal
Pöyry Management Consulting AS
Norway
The Norwegian Barents Sea
adventure
2/2013 Geir Hønneland
Research Director
Fridtjof Nansen Institute and
University of Tromsø
Norway
The Barents Sea – successful
fisheries management
2/2013 Lawson W. Brigham
PhD, Distinguished Professor of
Geography and Arctic Policy
University of Alaska Fairbanks
The USA
Arctic marine transport driven
by natural resource development
Senior Research Scientist, Ph.D.
RD Aluekehitys Oy
2/2013
Yrjö Myllylä and Jon
McEwan
Independent researcher, Master’s
student
International Program of Human
Geography at the Department of
Geographical and Historical Studies
University of Eastern Finland in
Joensuu
Finland’s world class Arctic
marine technology know-how
Finland
Project Researcher
University of Turku
Finland
Business prospects for the
Finnish maritime industry in the
Arctic
2/2013 Adam Grydehøj
Director of Island Dynamics
Copenhagen
Denmark
Opportunities for local
development in a nationally
contested Arctic – when Nordic
communities engage with Asian
economies
2/2013 Masahiro Tokunaga
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Kansai University
Japan
Japanese-Russian business on a
brink – how to go with
Gazprom?
2/2013 Timothy Heleniak
The American Geographical Society
Associate Research Professor
The Department of Geography
The University of Maryland
The USA
The migration of people in the
Arctic
1/2013 Per Westerberg
Speaker
Swedish Parliament
Sweden
The Baltic Sea Region – a
Swedish perspective
59
1/2013 Zoran Milanovic
Prime Minister
The Republic of Croatia
Croatia – becoming the 28th
member state of the European
Union
1/2013 Maria Lohela
Member (The Finns Party)
Parliament of Finland
Finland
Mutual trust and reciprocity – a
key to success in the Baltic Sea
Region
1/2013 Katja Taimela
Member
Finland
Towards a more responsible
Baltic Fisheries Policy
1/2013 Xing Huang
Ambassador
Embassy of the People’s Republic of
China in Finland
Maintaining a sound all-win
relationship between ChinaFinland in the future
1/2013 Veiko Spolitis
Parliamentary secretary
The Latvian Ministry of Defence
Latvia
Latvian defence planning in
transforming security
environment – political
perspective 2011–2013
1/2013 Hannu Miettunen
Head
News Department
Turun Sanomat
Finland
Finland and Sweden – military
allies? Never and yet for all
times
1/2013 Erwin Sellering
Prime Minister
Germany
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and
its relations with the countries
of the Baltic Sea Region
1/2013 Alexander Khudilainen
Head
The Republic of Karelia
Russia
Cooperation of the Republic of
Karelia with Finland at the
present stage of development
1/2013 Janne Virtanen
Acting Director
Regional Promotion
Northern growth corridor – an
opportunity for Southwest
Finland
1/2013 Sergei Guriev
Professor of Economics and Rector
New Economic School
Russia
Is Russian economy overheated?
1/2013 Piia-Noora Kauppi
Managing Director
Federation of Finnish Financial
Services
Finland
Nordic-Baltic financial zone
needs a well-functioning
banking union
1/2013
Leszek Balcerowicz and
Aleksander Łaszek
Professor of Economics, Head
International Comparative Studies
Department
Internal devaluation can work
Ph.D. Candidate
Poland
60
1/2013 Vlasta Macku
Chief
UNCTAD Virtual Institute
and Development
Academic capacity building on
trade for development in Belarus
and Russia –contribution of the
UNCTAD Virtual Institute
1/2013 Jan Lundin
Director General
CBSS International
Secretariat
The Council of the Baltic Sea
States in the era of regional
strategies, networks and projects
Professor
University of Turku
1/2013 Kari Liuhto
Director
Pan-European Institute,
Centrum Balticum
Finland
The Baltic Sea region and the
1/2013 Hans Brask
Director
Denmark
Energy efficiency in Russia –
experiences from Kaliningrad
region
1/2013 Eero Toivainen
Senior Consultant
Finpro, Life Sciences
Finland
FinlandCare – health from
Finland
1/2013 Alan Riley
Professor
City Law School
City University
The United Kingdom
Gazprom on the antitrust ropes
1/2013 Taavi Veskimägi
CEO
Elering AS
Estonia
Liberalisation of the Estonian
gas market
1/2013 Irina V. Zeleneva
Professor
Department of World Politics
Russia
Russian geostrategy in the
energy sphere in the Baltic Sea
region
1/2013 Agnia Grigas
PhD, CEO
OneGo Inc.
Author of “The Politics of Energy and
Memory between the Baltic States and
Russia”
The USA
Gas – the last frontier in the
bilateral relations between the
Baltic States and Russia
1/2013 Reinis Āboltiņš
Researcher
Centre for Public Policy
PROVIDUS
Latvia
A game of power – the Baltic
States and energy security
61
1/2013 Mikhail Krutikhin
Partner, Analyst
RusEnergy independent consultancy
Russia
Gas and oil reserves in Russian
Arctic seas remain out of reach
to all but two state-run giants
1/2013 Maria L. Lagutina
PhD, Senior Lecturer
World Politics Department
Russia
Nord Stream pipeline – an
energy dialogue or deadlock?
1/2013 Tomas Malmlöf
Scientist
Department for Security Policy &
Strategic Studies
(FOI)
Sweden
Interpretations of energy
security in the Baltic Sea region
Professor (Electricity markets)
Satu Viljainen, Olga
1/2013 Gore and Mari
Makkonen
M.Sc., Researcher
M.Sc., Researcher
Lappeenranta University of Technology
Finland
Russian electricity market
reform – deregulation or reregulation?
1/2013 Eero Vanaale
Consultant
Drewry Shipping
Consultants
The UK
The Baltic Sea ports – resonance
of trends in the container
shipping
1/2013 Tuomas Kiiski
Doctoral student
University of Turku
Finland
The Northern Sea Route – a
viable alternative to Suez Canal
Route as a liner shipping route?
Russia
Immediate tasks for G20,
regional associations and
international economic
organizations
Dr.Soc.Sc, BBA
Adviser
EUROFACTS Ltd.
Finland
“Clash of civilizations” in the
Finnish-Russian relations?
Associate Professor
Russia
Eurasian integration – a
positive view
PhD, Director
The Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg
Finnish window in
St.Petersburg – beyond its size?
1/2013
Viacheslav M.
Shavshukov
1/2013 Ilmari Larjavaara
1/2013
Vladimir G. SherovIgnatyev
1/2013 Elina Kahla
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Researcher
Professor
Inari Helle and Sakari
1/2013
Kuikka
Fisheries and Environmental
Management Group (FEM)
Department of Environmental Sciences
Finland
The challenge of keeping the
Gulf of Finland clean from oil –
what should we do?
1/2013 Kari Hyytiäinen
Principal Research Scientist
MTT Agrifood Research
Finland
Does it pay to combat
eutrophication in the Baltic Sea?
1/2013 Vanessa Ryan
Marine Conservation Officer
WWF Finland
Finland
Oil transportation in the Baltic
Sea – environmental impacts
and future challenges for
maritime transport
1/2013 Markku Kotilainen
Dr., Research Director
Research Institute of the Finnish
Economy (ETLA)
Finland
What explains foreign direct
investment in the Baltic Sea
Region?
1/2013 Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen
Professor of Sociology
Stockholm Centre on Health of Societies
in Transition (SCOHOST)
The East is – empty
School of Social Sciences
Sweden
Editor-in-Chief
The Lithuania Tribune
1/2013 Ruslanas Iržikevičius
Director
BaltoScandia Media
Lithuania
Lithuania's Berlusconi – the
Viktor Uspaskich phenomenon
in Lithuania
1/2013 Jordan Gans-Morse
Assistant Professor
Political Science
Northwestern University
The USA
Evolving threats to property
rights in Russia
1/2013 Sergey Balandin
President
FRUCT Oy
Finland
FRUCT – Academia-to-industry
cooperation engine and
incubator of new competences
and businesses
1/2013 Julija Bendikienė
Deputy Director
Marine Science and Technology Centre
Klaipėda University
Lithuania
The marine valley in Klaipėda –
for development of Lithuanian
maritime sector
63
1/2013 Irina Ledchenkova
Head of Project Office
International Cooperation Centre
Yanka Kupala State
University of Grodno (YKSUG)
Belarus
The Yanka Kupala State
University of Grodno (YKSUG)
and its international projects in
the Baltic Sea region (BSR)
1/2013 Karri Kiiskinen
PhD student
European ethnology
University of Turku
Finland
Borders to define a Baltic Sea
region
Prime Minister
The Republic of Belarus
Professor, Doctor in Economics and
Associate Member of the National
Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Belarus – joining Europe and
Eurasia together (Integration of
Integrations concept)
6/2012
Mikhail V.
Myasnikovich
Project Manager
6/2012
Pekka Salminen and
Hannamaria Yliruusi
Project Manager
Union of the Baltic Cities
Finland
Direct investments in city-tocity cooperation between Belarus
and EU
6/2012 Artis Pabriks
Dr., Minister of Defence
The Republic of Latvia
Security issues in the Baltic Sea
region
6/2012 Petri Sarvamaa
Member
The European Parliament
Rail Baltica as a stimulant to
Baltic economies
6/2012 Jessica Polfjärd
Moderate Party
Chair
Committee on industry and trade
Sweden
Nordic competitiveness in trade
and commerce – a strong and
secure future established by
growth
6/2012 Franz Thönnes
MP, former Parliamentary State
Secretary
Deutscher Bundestag
Member of the BSLF Steering
Committee
Germany
The Baltic Sea Labour Forum
(BSLF) is working
6/2012 Ann-Kristine Johansson
Chair of the Nordic Council
Environment Committee
Sweden
A cleaner Baltic Sea – a task for
parliamentarians across borders
6/2012 Hannu Himanen
Ambassador of Finland to the Russian
Federation
The reluctant partner – Russia
in WTO
6/2012 Maimo Henriksson
Ambassador of Finland
to Norway
The dynamic corner of Europe –
the High North as a strategic
survival strategy for Finland
64
6/2012 Riho Terras
Brigadier General Commander
The Estonian Defence Forces
Estonia
Security and defense in the
Baltic Sea region – what to
expect?
Professor
Strategic Studies Institute
The USA
European and Asian rivalries
over the Arctic
6/2012 Timo Rautajoki
CEO
Lapland Chamber of Commerce
Finland
The great future of Murmansk is
still based on visions
6/2012 Anneli Ahonen
Finnish journalist based in St.
Petersburg
Times are changing for the
Northern Russian town of
Pechenga
6/2012 Martti Hahl
President
Barents Center Finland
Finland
The bridge over troubled waters
of North West Russia
6/2012 Philip Lowe
Director-General
DG ENERGY
European Comission
Baltic energy infrastructure –
from isolation towards
integration
6/2012 Torstein Indrebø
Secretary General
International Gas Union, IGU
Natural Gas, LNG and the
Baltic Sea
6/2012 Esa Härmälä
Director General
Energy Department
Ministry of Employment and the
Economy
Finland
Europe needs energy investments
6/2012 Rokas Masiulis
CEO
Klaipėdos Nafta AB
Lithuania
LNG terminal in Lithuania – a
small solution to a very large
problem
6/2012 Monika Rozmarynowska
Assistant
Department of Transport and Logistics
Poland
LNG import terminals in Baltic
Sea Region – review of current
projects
6/2012 Juha Kettunen
Rector
Finland
Environment projects in the
Central Baltic Programme
6/2012 Markus Granlund
Director, Professor
University of Turku
Finland
Responsible university education
of business and economics in the
BRE
6/2012 Janis Stonis
Administrative Director
Latvia
Link in the Baltic Sea region
chain
65
6/2012 Ari Niemi
Editorial Writer
Turun Sanomat, Daily Newspaper
Finland
Child welfare with a doubleheaded eagle as a partner
6/2012 Hannele Pokka
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of the Environment
Finland
Why Gulf of Finland Year
2014?
6/2012 Kari Häkämies
Director-General
Regional State Administrative
Agency for Southwestern Finland
Finland
Integration of the Baltic Sea
labour market
6/2012 Stefan Herms
Director General
Department International and
European Affairs
Senate Chancellery
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Germany
Cooperation between Hamburg
and other partners in the Baltic
Sea region
6/2012 Heikki Pälve
CEO
Finnish Medical Association
Finland
Patient mobility in the Baltic
region
6/2012 Jussi Järventaus
Managing Director
Federation of Finnish Enterprises
Finland
Entrepreneurship as a source of
growth and competitiveness in
the Baltic Sea Region
6/2012 Hans Skov Christensen
Chairman
Denmark
The almost forgotten digital
single market
6/2012 Thomas Steger
University of Regensburg
Editor-in-chief
Journal for East European
Management Studies
Germany
Management research on Central
and Eastern Europe
6/2012 Pauls Raudseps
Commentator
Weekly magazine Ir
Latvia
Latvia and the euro – a date
with destiny
6/2012 Hiski Haukkala
University of Tampere
Finland
The Baltic Sea region needs more
mutual trust
6/2012 Christian Ramberg
Managing Director
Port of Turku
Finland
Port of Turku takes strongly
part in LNG projects
66
6/2012 Ulrich Bauermeister
Dr., Managing Director
Rostock Port
Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft
Rostock mbH
Germany
Port of Rosrock – serving the
Baltic Sea
6/2012 Jaakko Tikka
CEO
Forum Marinum Foundation
Finland
Maritime memories, history and
experiences at the same place
6/2012 Julian Cooper
Professor of Russian Economic Studies
Centre for Russian and East European
Studies
University of Birmingham
The United Kingdom
Eurasian Economic Integration
– different this time?
Department Director
Political economy and regional
development
Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Russia
Do Russian innovators need
creative cities?
6/2012
Irina V.
Starodubrovskaya
6/2012 Marko Torkkeli
Professor of Technology and Business
Innovations
Faculty of Technology Management
LappeenrantaUniversity of Technology
Director of Publications at
International Society for Professional
Innovation Management (ISPIM)
Finland
Innovation in and for Russian
markets
6/2012 Anni Kangas
Academy of Finland Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow
School of Management (International
Relations)
Finland
Neoliberalism meets economic
nationalism – the Skolkovo
innograd
6/2012 Teemu Makkonen
University of Turku
Finland
The geography of innovation in
6/2012 Alexander Dynkin
Professor, Director
IMEMO, Institute of
World Economy and International
Relations
Russia
Russia and WTO – challenges
after accession
67
6/2012 Grigory Dudarev
Russia as an investment
destination – the recent
accession of Russia to WTO and
its impact on the investment in
Russia
Partner
Evli Bank Plc
Finland
Senior Associate
Moscow Carnegie Centre
Russia
6/2012 Lilia Shevtsova
Associate Fellow
Russia and Eurasia Program
The Chatham House
The United Kingdom
Russia – is there a way out of
the dead end?
6/2012 Tommi Lappalainen
Major, Lecturer
Department of Strategic and Defence
Studies
National Defence University
Finland
Russia increasing its military
expenditure
6/2012 Irina Novikova
Professor, Dean
Russia
Russia’s WTO entry –
consequences for higher
education
6/2012 Jari Jumpponen
Head of rep. office
East Office of Finnish Industries
Advisor to Co-Chairman of the NDBC
How to get more boost to the
Northern Dimension?
Director for Russian Affairs
Katja Novikova and
6/2012
Maija Kuiri
Russian higher education reform
– designed to approach world
Lappeenranta University of Technology top universities
Finland
Project Manager
6/2012 Sean P. Roberts
Dr, Researcher
Affairs
Finland
Party-system reform in Russia
6/2012 Roger Roffey
Senior Scientist
Division of Defence Analysis
The Swedish Defence Research Agency
FOI
Sweden
Russia and migration in the
light of the demographic crises
6/2012 Roland Gustbée
President
Euroregion Baltic
Euroregion Baltic – tool to
tackle common challenges in the
South Baltic area
6/2012 Torben Dall Schmidt
Professor in Regional Economics
Department of Border Region Studies
University of Southern Denmark
Denmark
Borders and foreign labor – the
importance of foreign labor at
the Danish-German land border
68
6/2012 Robert Hall
Head of Baltic Sea Unit
Swedish Institute
Sweden
The Swedish Institute’s role in
Baltic Sea cooperation
6/2012 Kristi Raik
Researcher
Finnish Institute of International
Affairs
Finland
Estonia and Finland diverge
over Europe, but cherish NordicBaltic ties
6/2012 Anna Zasova
Research Fellow
Baltic International Centre for
Economic Policy Studies
Latvia
Slow recovery of Latvian labour
market – shaped by lack of
demand, not by labour market
institutions
6/2012 Jessica Ålgars-Åkerholm
Communications Manager
What is the WOW of your
region?
6/2012 Sari Ruusumo
Convention Director
City of Turku
Turku Touring
Convention Bureau
Finland
Important meetings and passion
since 1229
6/2012 Mika Kallioinen
Lecturer of Finnish History
University of Turku
Finland
The Hanseatic League – past
and present
6/2012 Anna Karhu
Doctoral Student
Department of Marketing and
International Business
University of Turku
Finland
Pharmaceutical retail as a part
of healthcare provision in the
future
Project Researcher
University of Turku
Finland
Introduction to SmartComp –
Smart Competitiveness for the
Central Baltic region
5/2012 René Sirol
Capt., Deputy Director General,
Head of Maritime Safety Division
Estonian Maritime Administration
Factors for safer shipping in the
Baltic Sea
5/2012 Karl-Heinz Breitzmann
Prof., Dr
Managing Director
Baltic Institute of Marketing,
Transport and Tourism at the
University of Rostock
Germany
Baltic maritime transport –
tense relationship between
logistics and environmental
regulations
69
5/2012 Pentti Kujala
Professor
Department of Applied Mechanics
School of Engineering
Aalto University
Finland
Increasing marine traffic
challenges the Baltic Sea
5/2012 Monika Stankiewicz
Executive Secretary
HELCOM
(Baltic Sea Marine Environment
Protection Commission)
Marine nature does not have an
owner – reflections on the future
of the Baltic maritime sector
5/2012 Jerzy Hajduk
PhD, Master Mariner, Professor
Dean of Navigation Faculty
Maritime University of Szczecin
Poland
The future of vessel traffic
safety in the Baltic Sea
5/2012 Robert Aps
Dr, Head of Marine Systems
Department
Estonian Marine Institute
University of Tartu
Estonia
Sea transportation of oil in the
Baltic Sea – enhancing safety
and security
5/2012 Juhani Talvela
Lic.tech, Research Director
Sciences
Finland
Enhancing logistics
competitiveness on a regional
scale
5/2012 Rima Mickeviciene
Dr, Assoc. Professor in Marine
Engineering, Dean
Faculty of Marine Engineering
Klaipeda University
Lithuania
Maritime technology industry –
to fit for the green future
5/2012 Elisa Holma
Researcher
University of Turku
Finland
Baltic Sea cargo volumes at their
highest in 2011
Research Associate
Eva Branten and Alari
5/2012
Purju
Professor of Public Economics
Department of Public Economics
Tallinn University of TechnologY
Estonia
Recent developments in the
Estonian maritime cluster
Project Researcher
University of Turku
Finland
The current state and future of
the Finnish maritime cluster
5/2012 Ulla Tapaninen
Ph.D., Expert in International
Logistics
City of Helsinki
Finland
Finnish foreign trade will find
new transport routes
70
Programme Director
5/2012
Mervi Pitkänen and
Juha Valtanen
Programme Manager
Machine Technology Center
Maritime Cluster Programme
Finland
Finnish maritime industry –
innovating the future
Project Manager of CAFE project
Jukka Seppänen and
5/2012
Mirva Salokorpi
Research Manager of maritime and
logistics
Science
Finland
EU-project develops skills and
increases safety capital of
maritime domain
Project Producer
Kaleidoskooppi
Lan Le, Nina
5/2012 Luostarinen and Timo
Parkkola
Project Planner
TKI-HUMAK Meri
Uncharted waters
RDI Manager
TKI-HUMAK Meri
Finland
4/2012 László Andor
Commissioner
European Commission
Employment and social
development in the EU and in
particular in the Baltic Sea
region
4/2012 Edgars Rinkēvičs
Latvia
Why Eastern Partnership still
matters?
4/2012 Edit Herczog
East-West pipelines –
integrating Europe
DI, eMBA, Member of Parliament
4/2012 Marjo MatikainenKallström
Chairperson
Finnish Karelian League
Finland
Controversial real estate
ownership
4/2012 Christel Happach-Kasan
Dr. MP
Chairwoman of the German-Baltic
Friendship Group
The German Bundestag
A view on the German
Presidency of the Council of the
Baltic Sea States
4/2012 Mikaela Nylander
Minorities around the Baltic Sea
71
4/2012 Kimmo Tiilikainen
Chairman
The Finnish Centre Party
Parliamentary Group
Building sustainable growth in
4/2012 Walter Deffaa
Director-General
Regional Policy DG
European Commission
The EU strategy for the Baltic
Sea region – the next phase of
the strategy
4/2012 Pauliina Haijanen
Member of the Committee of The
Regions
Member of the Board of The Regional
Council of Southwest Finland
Updated European Union
Strategy for the Baltic Sea
region
4/2012 Jukka-Pekka Ujula
Mayor
City of Porvoo
Finland
The City of Porvoo in Baltic
area cooperation
Policy Officer
European Commission – DG Education
and Culture
University business cooperation
in education
4/2012 Philipp Schwartz
Dr., Head of the Joint Technical
Secretariat
Central Baltic INTERREG IV A
Programme 2007-2013
Use the “today” to shape the
“tomorrow” or the impact of
2007– 2013 on 2014 – 2020
4/2012 Gabriel Alvarez
Communication Officer
INTERACT Point Turku
Finland
Territorial cooperation in the
Baltic Sea region and the
supportive role of INTERACT
Point Turku
4/2012 Kai Paananen
CEO
SET Petrochemicals Oy / SET Group
Finland
Oil spill risks can be reduced
through concrete cooperation
4/2012 Olli-Pekka Brunila
Researcher
University of Turku
Maritime Logistics Research
Unit in Kotka
Finland
Development of oil
transportation in the Gulf of
Finland
4/2012 Anders Åslund
Senior Fellow
The Peterson Institute for International
Economics
Russia’s future reforms
The USA
Author of the book “Russia’s Capitalist
Revolution”
4/2012
Ricardo Carvalho Bruno
Ferreira
72
4/2012 Kari Liuhto
Professor on the Russian economy
Turku School of Economics at the
University of Turku
Finland
Russia after Putin?
President
Center for Strategic Research
Russia
Director
Center of Social Policy of the Institute
of the Applied Economic Research
The Russian Academy of National
Economy and Civil Service
Russia
Good-bye, poverty – Russia’s
quiet social revolution
4/2012 Vesa Korhonen
Senior economist
Bank of Finland Institute for
Economies in Transition (BOFIT)
Finland
Russia’s budget priorities shaped
by the leadership, and the
outcome by an uneven inflation
landscape
4/2012 Tom Colbjørnsen
President
and its activities in the Baltic
Sea region
Agata Wierzbowska4/2012
Miazga
Expert
Russian Department
Poland
The limits of Eurasian
integration
4/2012 Filip Hamro-Drotz
Senior Advisor
Confederation of Finnish
Industries EK
Finland
The Baltic Sea region and
business – a model for European
macro regions?
4/2012 Jorma Alanne
Executive Vice President
Baltic Banking
Pohjola Bank plc
Finland
Pohjola’s growing interest in the
Baltic markets
4/2012 Keijo Koskinen
Key Account Manager
AEL
Finland
Why some companies succeed
4/2012 Janne Tienpää
MSc in Geography and Economics
Senior Sales Manager
S-Group Hotels Finland
Event sourcing: a new approach
to destination marketing – case
City of Turku, Finland
4/2012 Janne Hirvonen
Analyst
East Office of Finnish Industries,
Helsinki
Finland
State-financed investment – the
Achilles’ heel of Russia’s rentsaddicted economy?
4/2012
Mikhail Dmitriev and
Svetlana Misikhina
73
4/2012 Markku Sippola
Karelian Institute
The impact of investment
climate on the ease of
investment: a comparison
between Russia and the Baltic
States
4/2012 Martin Hurt
Member of the Executive Board
International Centre for Defence
Studies
Estonia
Nordic-Baltic defence
cooperation: opportunities and
challenges
4/2012 Jonas Grätz
M.A., Researcher
Center for Security Studies (CSS) at
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
Unconventional resources and
energy security in the Baltic Sea
region
Co-owner and Director
Consultation Centre GECON
Expert
Scientific Council of Security
Council of the Russian Federation
4/2012 Mikhail Grigoryev
Member
Coordination Council on Cross-Border
and Interregional Cooperation under
the Plenipotentiary of the President of
the Russian Federation to the
Northwest Federal District
Euro-Arctic cross-border
cooperation for development of
the Russian Arctic offshore oil
& gas reserves
Chairman
Expert Group concerning Development
of Mineral Resources and Development
of Transport System in Arctic Regions
The Russian Federation
4/2012 Eva Hjälmered
Head of Secretariat
UBC Energy Commission
Union of Baltic Cities
The ”small” actors are the major
actors
Director
4/2012
Eugenijus Uspuras and
Vaclovas Miskinis
Head
Laboratory of Energy
Systems Research
Lithuanian Energy Institute
Energy infrastructure projects in
Lithuania
4/2012 Frederic Hauge
President
The Bellona Foundation
Norway
Plans for Baltic nuclear power
plant financially unviable and
ecologically hazardous
4/2012 Marijuš Antonovič
MA in International Relations and
Diplomacy
Vilnius University
Lithuania
The political project of the Baltic
nuclear power plant
74
4/2012 Vitaliy V. Yermakov
Commodore (One Star Admiral, retired)
Finland
Director, Russian and Caspian Energy
IHS CERA
Russia
A drastic change to be expected
in the energy map of the Baltic
region
Cold February of 2012 –
European gas system passes test,
but questions remain
Professor
University of Turku
4/2012 Kari Liuhto
Director
Centrum Balticum
Finland
The revolution of gas logistics in
the Baltic Sea region?
Professor
Department of Industrial Management,
Kouvola Unit
Finland
Olli-Pekka Hilmola and
4/2012
Eugene Korovyakovsky
Head of Department
Department of Logistics and
Commercial Operations
St. Petersburg State
Transport University
Russia
Russian railway sector
transformation – opportunity
for larger Europe
Consultant, Researcher in transport and
logistics
4/2012 Vladas Sturys
Director
Baltic R&D Centre
Lithuania
Baltic transport research agenda
– a strong demand
Administration Counselor, PhD,
Professor
Ilya Shegelman and
4/2012
Pavel Shchukin
Head of Innovation Projects and
Innovative Infrastructure Developing
Department, PhD
Environmentally safe
transportation and packaging
unit for transportation and
storage of spent nuclear fuel
Russia
4/2012 Egon G. Nordström
PhD, Docent
Åbo Akademi University
Senior Officer
Ministry of Environment
Finland
75
Sustainable water management
in the Baltic Sea region and the
Kingisepp phosphorus case
4/2012 Anna Korppoo
Postdoctoral Researcher of the Academy
of Finland
What next in Russia’s climate
University of Turku
policy?
Finland
Senior Research Fellow
Fridtjof Nansen Institute
Norway
4/2012 Tuomas Räsänen
PhD Student
Department of General History
University of Turku
Finland
Environmental lessons from the
past
4/2012 Vera Barinova
Head of Innovation Economy
Department
Center for Real Sector
Russia
Fostering innovation in Russia
– time to set priorities
4/2012 Virpi Herranen
Director
FinNode Russia
Finland and Russia – how good
partners may contribute in
developing innovations
4/2012 Liliana Proskuryakova
Researcher
Laboratory for S&T Studies
National Research University “Higher
School of Economics”
Russia
Science and innovation policy of
the new Russian cabinet
4/2012 Natalya Volchkova
Professor
New Economic School
Russia
Russia – an unattainable goal of
diversification
4/2012 Triin Kask
CEO
BluNavi
Estonia
The real challenges of start-ups
who want to make people’s lives
better
4/2012 Dovile Jakniunaite
Associated Professor
Vilnius University
Lithuania
Baltic States – three states, but
no region
4/2012 Ralph Tuchtenhagen
Professor, Dr.
Chair of Cultural Studies
Deputy Head
Department of North European Studies
Humboldt University, Berlin
German
The Baltic Sea Dimension at the
Department of North European
Studies, Humboldt University,
Berlin, Germany
76
4/2012
Tatjana Muravska and
Roswitha King
Markku Jokisipilä and
4/2012
Tarja Hyppönen
Jean Monnet Professor
Director
Centre for European and Transition
Studies
Associate Professor of Economics
Ostfold University College
Norway
Academic Director
Coordinator
University of Turku
Peripheral regional universities –
what role within the Baltic
Regional Forum?
BSRS – making sense of regional
realities for 15 years
Head of International Centre
Warsaw School of Economics (SGH)
Poland
The Warsaw School of
Economics (SGH) and its
collaboration within the Baltic
Sea region (BSR)
4/2012 Tiina Tervaniemi
Project Manager
Best practices in the Baltic Sea Area
Regional Council of Pohjois-Savo
Finland
Knowledge, networks and
regional growth through best
practices within the Baltic Sea
region
4/2012 Regina Karvelienė
Director
The Department of International
Programmes and Relations
Šiauliai University
Lithuania
Internationalisation process in
high education – a practise of
Šiauliai University
4/2012 Alyson JK Bailes
Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Political Science
University of Iceland
Visiting Professor at the College of
Europe
Iceland facing the Artic – Baltic
lessons?
4/2012
Elżbieta FonbergStokłuska
Aleksandra Kuźmińska4/2012 Haberla and Marcin
Haberla
Ph.D., Lecturer
Relations
Ph.D., Lecturer
Department of Marketing
Research
Wroclaw University of Economics
Poland
EURO 2012 in Poland – was it
worth it?
4/2012 Pauli Heikkilä
Research Fellow
University of Tartu
Estonia
Paneuropean and Baltic
Estonian Diplomat
3/2012 Ilkka Räisänen
Lic.Sc.(Econ)
Minister Counsellor
Head of Liaison Office of the
Embassy of Finland
How Belarus could gain of the
Eurasian economic integration
and of the WTO membership?*
77
3/2012 David R. Marples
Distinguished University Professor
University of Alberta
Canada
Belarus – back to mother
Russia?
3/2012 Alexander Brakel
Country Representative Belarus
Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation
The “ambassador war” – lessons
learned from a recent episode in
European–Belarusian relations
3/2012 Sergey A. Kizima
Head of Department of International
Relations
Belarus
Lost chances of the EU for
cooperation with Belarus
3/2012 Kataryna Wolczuk
PhD
Centre for Russian and East
European Studies
UK
The EU strategy on Belarus – in
need of ‘smart pragmatism’
3/2012 Anaïs Marin
Researcher
Affairs (Helsinki)
Finland
EU–Belarus relations – which
way out of the vicious circle?
3/2012 Torbjörn Becker
Director
Stockholm Institute of Transition
Economics (SITE)
Sweden
Belarus – expect no free lunches
3/2012 Alexander Chubrik
Director of the IPM Research Centre
CASE Fellow
Belarus
Belarusian economy after the
balance of payments crisis – time
to change the model
3/2012 Kateryna Bornukova
Research fellow
Belarusian Economic Research and
Outreach Center (BEROC)
Ukraine
Currency crisis in Belarus –
social impact and redistributive
effects
Belarus
Budget deficit in Belarus, ways
of reducing
3/2012 Olga Malashenkova
Relations of the
Belarus
The consolidated budget of the
Republic of Belarus
3/2012 Andrei Rusakovich
Chairman of the Board Public
Association «Foreign Policy and
Security Research Center»
Belarus
Investment advantages of the
Republic of Belarus in
connection with its participation
in the Eurasian integration
78
3/2012 Helen Semak
Relations of the Belarusian State
University
Belarus
Russian investments in the
economy of the Republic of
Belarus
3/2012 Pavel Shvedko
Senior researcher
Institute of Economics
National Academy of Sciences of
Belarus
Belarusian–Chinese trade and
economic cooperation
3/2012 Aleksandra Hiachai
Department of International
Economic Relations of the Belarusian
State University
Energy sector of the Republic of
Belarus
3/2012 Hanna Smith
Researcher
Finland
Belarus at a crossroads
3/2012 Kamil Klysinski
Specialist in Belarusian Affairs
Department for Ukraine, Belarus and
Moldova
(OSW)Poland
The paradoxes of Alyaksandr
Lukashenka’s foreign policy
3/2012 Matthew Frear
Studies
UK
Opposition strategies for the
2012 elections in Belarus
3/2012 Anna Maria Dyner
Specialist in Eastern European affairs
Polish Institute of International
Affairs
Poland
The future of Belarus
3/2012 Grigory Ioffe
Professor
Department of Geospatial Science
Radford University
The United States
Belarusian identity
3/2012 Jovita Neliupšienė
Lecturer
Vilnius University
Lithuania
Belarus – stuck between the
nation and state building
processes
3/2012 Per A. Rudling
Postdoctoral research fellow
Department of History
Lund University
Sweden
Nationalism in modern Belarus
79
3/2012 Jussi Seppälä
Chairman
Finland-Belarus Society
Finland
Belarus in our minds – a point
of view from the level of the
civil society
2/2012 Pascal Lamy
Director-General
World Trade Organization
WTO membership will change
Russia
2/2012 Tunne Kelam
Member
The Chairman of the Baltic Europe
Intergroup
Challenges for the EU Strategy
for the Baltic Sea Region
2/2012 Gunnar Hökmark
Member
The Baltics can move Europe
ahead
2/2012 Morten Løkkegaard
(MEP)
Vice-chair of the Education and
Culture Committee
(Denmark, the ALDE group)
The Baltic Pioneer
2/2012 Joanna Mucha
Dr., Minister of Sport and Tourism
Ministry of Sport and Tourism
The Republic of Poland
What can Poland gain from
hosting Euro 2012?
2/2012 Egemen Bagis
Minister for European Union Affairs
and Chief Negotiator
Turkey
Turkey as a key to Europe's
energy diversification
2/2012 Pirkko Mattila
Muhos, Finland
Turning global into local –
distributed bio-based energy
production
2/2012 Vladimir Drazhin
Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of Belarus in Lithuania
and Finland
Development of economic ties of
Belarus and EU in the light of
relations with Lithuania and
Finland
2/2012 Andres Lipstok
Governor of Eesti Pank
Member of the Governing Council of
the European Central Bank
Estonia
Changeover to the Euro – the
Estonian experience
2/2012 Minna Arve
Chairman
City Board of Turku
Finland
Turku – connecting Baltic Cities
2/2012 Monika Stankiewicz
Executive Secretary
Helsinki Commission
Finland
Setting the goals, measuring the
progress – HELCOM Baltic Sea
Action Plan
80
Tellervo Kylä-Harakka2/2012
Ruonala
Director, Business Infrastructure
EK
Finland
The Baltic Sea transport corridor
– changes ahead?
2/2012 Kari Liuhto
Editor-in-Chief
Baltic Rim Economies review
Director
Director
Centrum Balticum
Professor on the Russian Economy
University of Turku
Finland
One thousand and one articles
on the Baltic Rim Economies
2/2012 Leszek Jesień
Dr., Lecturer
Collegium Civitas University
Warsaw, Poland
Change the Euro pattern and
strategy
2/2012
Leonid Grigoryev and
Anna Chaplygina
Professor, Chair of World economy
HSE, Moscow
Russia
Ph.D (Econ.), Consultant to the World
Bank and the Ministry of Finance of
the Russian Federation
Russia
Russia – at the door of WTO
2/2012 Sergei F. Sutyrin
Professor, Head
St.Petersburg State University
The WTO Chair Holder
Russia
Russian way to the World Trade
Organization (WTO) – why did
it take so long?
2/2012 Karina Pētersone
Director
Latvian Institute
Latvia
Where to look for the Baltic Sea
region identity?
2/2012 Richard Connolly
Dr., Lecturer in Political Economy
Studies
School of Government and Society
The United Kingdom
The development of the
nanotechnology industry in
Russia
Mikko Kaarela and
2/2012
Pekka Koponen
Senior Consultant
Spinverse Ltd.
Finland
CEO
Spinverse Ltd.
Finland
81
Commercialization as the bridge
from Russian science to
prosperity
2/2012 Olga Garanina
Ph. D., Associate Prof.
Head of the Center for Energy
Policy Research and Training
St Petersburg State University of
Economics and Finance
Russia
Energy security, oil prices and
modernization in Russia
2/2012 Alexander Ghaleb
Energy security Ph.D. student
Department of Environmental Sciences
and Policy
Central European University
Hungary
Bribe Europe’s center, divide the
Euro-Atlantic Alliance, and rule
the periphery – Putin’s grand
strategy for a strong Russia
Marek Maciejowski and
2/2012
Silvija Juscenko
Head of the NDPHS Secretariat
Senior Adviser
NDPHS Secretariat
NDPHS urges for more health
on the regional agenda
2/2012 Meelis Mandel
Editor-in-Chief
The Estonian business daily Äripäev
Estonia
Feared loan – unused
opportunity for Estonia
2/2012 Epp Lauk
Professor of Journalism
Department of Communication
Finland
What is happening to (foreign)
ownership in the Baltic media
markets?
2/2012 Konstantin von Eggert
MBE, Commentator and Host
Kommersant FM radio in Moscow
Russia
For Putin and Russia the
moment of truth approaching
fast
2/2012 Konstantin Sonin
SUEK Professor of Economics and
Vice Rector
New Economic School
Russia
Russia 2012 – is the glass half
full or half empty?
2/2012 Gabriele Kötschau
Dr., Deputy Managing Director
Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
Head of the representation in St.
Petersburg
Germany / Russia
Hamburg and St. Petersburg –
two metropolises in the Baltic
Sea region
2/2012 Niko Kyynäräinen
City of Turku
Finland
Turku Region – for future
success
2/2012 Stephan Stein
Dr., Head of the representative office of
the Chamber of Commerce of Hamburg
in Kaliningrad
Rise, fall and resurgence of the
Head of the board of the Association of
Special Economic Zone of
Foreign Investors in Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad/Russia
Member of the board of the Baltic Sea
Forum, Pro Baltica
Germany / Russia
82
2/2012 Marko Joas
Professor in Public Administration
Prefekt (Dean)
Department of Political Sciences
Åbo Akademi University
Finland
Baltic Sea region networking –
the road ahead?
2/2012 Anu Keltaniemi
Project Manager
c/o Union of the Baltic Cities
Environmental and City Planning
Department
Environmental Protection Office
Turku, Finland
New opportunities for the
Central Baltic maritime cluster
through SmartComp project
2/2012 Alexander Sergunin
Russia
Russia’s Baltic policy – new
horizons?
2/2012 Lidia Puka
Researcher
The Polish Institute of International
Affairs
Poland
Energy policy of Norway and its
implications for the Baltic Sea
region
Project Manager
Turku Touring
Finland
Maritta Hiltunen and
2/2012
Ain Hinsberg
Member of Innovative Marketing WP
and Follow-up Task Force
Head of R&D Unit
Estonian School of Hotel and Tourism
Management EHTE
Estonia
Cultural tourism 2011 –
reaching beyond capitals of
culture and cultural tourism in
2/2012 Christian Krötzl
Professor of History
School of Social Sciences and
Humanities
Finland
Networks across the Baltic –
back to history?
2/2012 Jens E. Olesen
Professor, Dr.
Chair of Scandinavian and Finnish
History
University of Greifswald
Germany
History of the Baltic Sea region
2/2012 Kari Alenius
Associate Professor
University of Oulu
Finland
The Second World War as a
problem between the Baltic
countries and Russia
2/2012 Kristian Gerner
Professor of History (Emeritus)
Lund University
Sweden
The Baltic States – an imagined
community turned real
83
2/2012 Ainars Lerhis
Dr. (Hist.), Chairman of the Board
Centre for East European Policy
Studies
Latvia
Latvia and the U.S. – potential
for strengthening energy security
2/2012 Christer K. Lindholm
Researcher in Economics
The Åbo Akademi School of Business
and Economics
Finland
Does austerity work? Lessons
from the Latvian crisis in 2008–
2010
2/2012 Tiina Ritvala
Dr., Researcher, Program Director
Department of Management and
School of Economics
Aalto University
Finland
The Baltic Sea and the quest for
authentic leadership
2/2012 Petri Kahila
Dr., Docent
Nordregio
Quality of life in urban-rural
interference
University of Vaasa
Finland
Panu Kalmi and Andro
2/2012
Roos
2/2012
Luis Felipe Mohando
and Toomas Prangli
Chairman of Management Board
Tartu Credit Union
Researcher
University of Tartu
Estonia
Associate
Regional Knowledge Management
Lawyer
SORAINEN
Estonia
Partner
Regional Head of the M&A and
Private Equity Team
SORAINEN
Estonia
The development and potential
of financial co-operatives in
Estonia
Baltic M&A studies suggest
trends for the future
2/2012 Mekhail Mustak
Doctoral Researcher
Finland
When the focus is on
international students, Finland
can do better!
1/2012 Günther Oettinger
EU Energy Commissioner
European Commission
Europe's energy future is in gas
and in Central Asia
1/2012 Gediminas Kazlauskas
Minister
Lithuania
The Baltic Sea protection – a
challenge for Lithuania and for
the whole Baltic Sea region
1/2012 Lambert van Nistelrooij
Joint efforts in the Baltic Sea
Strategy
84
German Liberal Party
Vice President of the Alliance of
Liberals and Democrats for Europe
(ALDE)
EU-Ukraine relations – a
decisive year ahead
1/2012 Vladimir Chizhov
Ambassador
Permanent Mission of the Russian
Federation to the European Union
The Russia-EU Partnership for
Modernisation
1/2012 Juris Bone
Ambassador of Latvia to Finland
From Baltic Tiger to Baltic
Phoenix
1/2012 Jussi Huttunen
Region Mayor
Regional Council of Pohjois-Savo
Finland
Mobilising the regional assets
through joint efforts – PohjoisSavo looks at the Baltic Sea
region in cooperation
1/2012 Nikolay Tsukanov
Governor
The Kaliningrad region
Energy deficit of Kaliningrad
region is passing
1/2012 Jan Owe-Larsson
President
East Sweden Region
Sweden
Territorial cooperation – an
asset for East Sweden and the
Baltic Sea region
1/2012 Pekka Myllymäki
2nd Deputy Chairman of the Managing
Board
The Regional Council of Southwest
Finland
Chairman of the Municipal Council of
Mynämäki
Finland
Rural Mynämäki community on
the way to competitiveness,
employment and safe energy
supply
1/2012 Akko Karlsson
Vice chairman
Kalmar Regional Council
Member of ERB
Sweden
Territorial review and regional
development in the Baltic area
1/2012 Slava Khodko
Vice-President, Chairman of the
Executive Committee
Association North-West
Russia
Cooperation development in the
Baltic Sea region
1/2012 Boedker Andersen
President
Union of the Baltic Cities, UBC
Union of the Baltic Cities 20
years – inspired by the past,
heading for the future
1/2012 Jyrki Myllyvirta
Mayor
The City of Lahti
Finland
The power of two metropoles
1/2012 Mikael Pentikäinen
Editor-in-Chief
The Helsingin Sanomat
Finland
Water flows down from
Russia’s mountains
1/2012
Alexander Graf
Lambsdorff
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1/2012 Börje Svanborg
Vice President, Regional Cooperation
Invest Sweden
Sweden
Cooperation within Baltic Sea
region (BSR)
1/2012 Kaisa Kononen
Dr., Executive Director
BONUS
Finland
Towards the Rio+20 in the
Baltic Sea region
1/2012 Allan Alaküla
Head
Tallinn European Union Office
Estonia
BSR deserves a communication
strategy
1/2012 Anna Saarentaus
Senior Consultant
Pöyry Management Consulting Oy
Finland
Communication is the key –
towards a successful network
1/2012 Alain Roggeri
Former Head of Unit Estonia, Finland
and Latvia
D.G. REGIO European Commission
Region – from good intentions to
effective implementation and
results
Expert - cohesion policy
Ellinor Ivarsson, Tommy
1/2012 Holm and Fredrik
Gunnarsson
Growth and Community Development
Division
Swedish Association of Local
Authorities and Regions
Sweden
The municipal authorities and
the Baltic Sea Strategy –
conditions for greater local
involvement
Head of Unit
Colin Wolfe and
1/2012
Malgorzata Pekala
Programme Assistant
DG Regional Policy
European Commission
The EU Strategy for the Baltic
Sea Region – "business as usual"
in the EU?
1/2012 Janne Jõesaar-Ruusalu
National Contact Point of the Baltic
Sea Strategy
Estonia
The European Union Strategy
for the Baltic Sea Region –
where do we stand today?
1/2012 Rikard Bengtsson
Associate Professor, Department of
Political Science
Deputy Director, Centre for European
Studies
Lund University
Sweden
The EU Strategy for the Baltic
Sea Region in 2012 –
implementation challenges
1/2012 Eeva Rantama
PhD, Project Team Leader
Baltic Sea Region Programme 20072013
Germany
The EU Baltic Sea Region
Programme as major start-up
support to the EU Strategy for
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1/2012 Gunnel Gustafsson
Professor and Director
NordForsk
Research collaboration – a way
to turn grand challenges into
opportunities
1/2012 Levan Mindeli
Professor
Corresponding member of the Russian
Academy of Science
Director of Institute for the Study of
Science of the Russian Academy of
Sciences
Russia
The role of science in Russia's
modernisation
1/2012 Jan Widberg
Head of Secretariat
Baltic Sea Parliamentary
Conference, BSPC
Multi-dimensional challenges
and governance in the Baltic Sea
region
1/2012 Janne Tamminen
Executive Secretary
as a developer of the Baltic Sea
Area
1/2012 Jaakko Henttonen
NDEP Manager
EBRD Regional Office
St Petersburg
Russia
NDEP – a partnership
delivering concrete results for the
Baltic and Barents Seas
1/2012 Bernd Henningsen
Professor, Dr.
Nordeuropa-Institut
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Germany
Germany and the Baltic Sea
region
1/2012 Gunnar Lassinantti
Member of the board
The Swedish OSCE-network
Sweden
Baltic Sea region cooperation at
a crossroad
1/2012 Bjarke W. Bøtcher
Chief Adviser
Danish Maritime Authority
Priority Area Coordinator for maritime
safety in the EUSBSR
Denmark
Growth in vessel transport
necessitates regional cooperation
on maritime safety and security
1/2012 Mervi Pitkänen
Programme Director
The Finnish Maritime
Cluster Programme (OSKE)
Finland
Baltic Sea region clusters as
platforms for a global maritime
growth potential
1/2012 Julian Skelnik
M.Com., Marketing Director
Port of Gdansk Authority SA
BPO President, ESPO Vice Chairman
Poland
Regional and European
determinants in favour of the
development of the port of
Gdansk
1/2012 Gunnar Prause
Professor
Wismar Business School / Tallinn
University of Technology
Germany / Estonia
Air cargo in the Baltic Sea
region
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1/2012 Jussi Rautsi
Counsellor, Spatial Planning
Finland
The new EU Territorial Agenda
– a Baltic Sea region perspective
1/2012 Tobias Etzold
Dr., Researcher Baltic Sea and
Northern Europe Studies
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik,
German Institute for International and
Security Affairs
Germany
Nordic cooperation – the
adaptation process continues
M.Sc. (Agriculture) and M.Sc.
(Economics), Executive Director
The Baltic Region Healthy Cities
Association - WHO Collaboration
Centre of Urban Health and Healthy
Cities in the Baltic Region
Finland
WHO Healthy Cities promote
cross-sectoral work to tackle
unhealthy lifestyles
1/2012 Jacob Carstensen
Professor
Department of Biosciences
Aarhus University
Denmark
The Baltic Sea below the surface
1/2012 Grazyna Sapota
Assistant Professor
Maritime Institute in Gdansk
Poland
Sustainable Development
Region
1/2012 Andrzej Jagusiewicz
Ph.D., Chief Inspector
Environmental Protection
Poland
“Three in one”– the recipe to
save the Baltic waters and its
ecosystems
1/2012 Lotta Nummelin
Coordinator for the Baltic Sea
Challenge
City of Helsinki Environment Centre
Finland
The Baltic Sea and cities – the
flow goes both ways
1/2012
Andrzej Tubielewicz and
Marcin Forkiewicz
1/2012 Agata Mężyńska
Professor
Faculty of Management and Economic
Poland
Professor Assistant
Faculty of Management and Economic
Best Agers – GUT team leader
Poland
Director
Economic Information Department
Polish Information and Foreign
Investment Agency
Poland
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How an age friendly
environment can be promoted in
What is there in between
competition and competition? –
investment promotion in Policy
Action Plan for the Marketing
of the Baltic Sea Region
1/2012 Daniel de Graaf
PhD , SPIN Project Manager
Federal Environment Agency
Germany
Boosting sustainable production
in SMEs in the Baltic Sea region
– challenges and solutions
identified by the SPIN project
1/2012 Agnieszka Kowalcze
Director
Scandinavian-Polish Chamber of
Commerce
Poland
Why stay in the Baltic Sea
region?
1/2012 Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen
Professor in Russian energy policy
Aleksanteri Institute / Department of
Social Research
Finland
Russia as an environmentally
responsible energy superpower?
1/2012 Leonid Karabeshkin
PhD, Associate Professor, Acting Dean
Faculty of International Relations
Euroacademy
Estonia
Energy nationalism and
cooperation in the Baltic Sea
region
1/2012 Jörg Hackmann
DAAD Alfred Döblin Professor of East
European History
Dept. of History and International
Does history pose an obstacle to
Relations
Baltic identity?
University of Szczecin
Poland
6/2011 Štefan Füle
Enlargement and European
Neighbourhood Policy
European Commission
A renewed approach to the
Eastern Partnership
6/2011 Konrad Niklewicz
Spokesman for the Polish Presidency of
the EU Council
Poland
Six months of the Polish
Presidency
6/2011 Andrii Deshchytsia
Ambassador
Embassy of Ukraine to Finland
Ukraine-EU relations –
overview of the recent
developments and perspectives
for the nearest future
6/2011 Stanisław Koziej
Head
National Security Bureau
Republic of Poland
Towards a new European
Security Strategy
6/2011 Beata Wojna
PhD, Head of Research
Polish Institute of International
Affairs
Poland
The Polish Presidency and the
Eastern Partnership
6/2011 Agnieszka Łada
PhD, Head of the European Programme Polish EU Council Presidency –
Institute of Public Affairs in Warsaw
efficient presidency in the
Poland
difficult times
89
6/2011 Adam Eberhardt
Dr., Deputy Director
OSW (Centre for Eastern Studies)
Poland
Eastern Partnership and
Poland’s EU presidency
6/2011 Alex Nice
Coordinator
Russia and Eurasia Programme
Chatham House, London
UK
Belarus and the Eastern
Partnership in 2011
Doctor of Political Science
Until 2010 Faculty of Political Science
and Journalism at Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznań Poland
6/2011 Agnieszka Wójcicka
Guest researcher and scholar of
European Economic Area (EEA) &
Norway Grants within the Scholarship
and Training Fund (STF) at the
University of Akureyri in Iceland
(Háskólinn á Akureyri) in 2010/2011
The Polish Presidency in the
European Union in 2011
6/2011 Rafał Sadowski
Senior Analyst
The Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)
Poland
The Polish EU Presidency and
the Eastern Partnership
6/2011 Janusz Wróbel
Mayor of Pruszcz Gdański
City of Pruszcz Gdański
Poland
Together faster and more
efficiently
6/2011 Agata Łoskot-Strachota
Energy Policy Analyst
OSW (Centre for Eastern Studies)
Poland
The European Union’s external
energy policy and its relations
with its neighbours to the East
6/2011 Adam Łukaszewicz
Professor
Institute of Archaeology
University of Warsaw
Poland
Between the Baltic and the
Mediterranean
6/2011 Ewa Dziedzic
Ph. D., Associate Professor,
Chair of Tourism
Poland
Poland as a tourism destination
– looking for a place in the
market
Elzbieta Kawecka6/2011
Wyrzykowska
Prof. Dr, Vice Rector for International
Co-operation
Poland
and its international cooperation with Belarus and
Ukraine
6/2011 Michael Gonchar
President
Centre for Global Studies
Strategy XXI
Ukraine
Ukrainian mainstream and
dream stream of Russian energy
policy
90
6/2011 Andriy Chubyk
Executive Director
Centre for Global Studies Strategy XXI
Ukraine
South Stream – behind rhetoric
6/2011 Anaïs Marin
Researcher
Affairs
Finland
Belarus – the thwarted
partnership
6/2011 Anton Lobach
MBA, Researcher
National Academy of Sciences of
Belarus
Belarus
Belarus's energy security
6/2011 Eduard Simchanka
Candidate of Economy
Independent researcher
Belarus
Currency crisis 2011 in Belarus
Murman Margvelashvili
6/2011 and George
Mukhigulishvili
Director of Energy Studies
Researcher in Energy Studies
World Experience for Georgia
Georgia
Georgia and its role in energy
transit towards the West
5/2011 Jose Manuel Barroso
President of the European Commission
Bringing EU-Russian relations
to a new level
5/2011 Jyrki Katainen
Prime Minister
Finland
The great potential of the Baltic
Sea cooperation
5/2011 Mart Laar
Defence Minister
Estonian Ministry of Defence
Estonia
The new threats to NorthernEurope
5/2011 Diana Wallis
Liberal Democrat
MEP for Yorkshire & the Humber
Vice President of the European
Parliament responsible for the Northern
Dimension including the Arctic and the
High North
The stalemate in Spitsbergen
could be used to Norway's
advantage
5/2011 Olavi Ala-Nissilä
Member of the European Court of
Auditors, Dean
European Court of Auditors
Challanges for the EU from the
perspective of external audit and
accountability
5/2011 Petteri Orpo
Parliamentary representative
Finland
Our common bond – ties that
bind us
5/2011 Matthew Lodge
Ambassador
British Embassy
Finland
A shared vision for promoting
sustainable growth
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Mayor, City of Turku
Chairman, Centrum Balticum
Foundation
Finland
The Turku process – promoting
concrete cooperation with
Russian partners
5/2011 Henry Lindelöf
Mayor
City of Kotka
Finland
The City of Kotka looks to the
East
5/2011 Veli-Jukka Pennala
Rear Admiral, Commander
Finnish Navy
Finland
Maritime situational awareness
across borders
5/2011 Detlef Müller
Member of Parliament of the Landtag
Chairman of the Committee on
European and Legal Affairs
Member of the Committee of the
Regions
Germany
“Friction generates heat” –
tourism, cooperation and the
Baltic Sea identification factor
5/2011 Jorma Korhonen
Director-General
Department of External Economic
Relations
Finland
The Baltic Sea and the Arctic
will increase their importance in
the energy security for the
European Union
5/2011 Suvi Innilä
Programme director
Turku 2011 Foundation
Finland
Positioning Turku on the world
map – the city’s year as the
European Capital of Culture
5/2011 Arne Grove
Director
Nordic Council of Ministers
Information office
Kaliningrad
Russia
Role and achievements of the
Nordic Council of Ministers
(NCM) on environment and
energy in North-West (NW)
Russia, as a part of the Baltic
Sea Region
Commodore (retired)
Finland
Piracy is a menace to
international sea traffic
5/2011 Nina Vaskunlahti
Director General
Department for Russia, Eastern Europe
Russia and the European Union
and Central Asia
– a multilayered relationship
Finland
5/2011 Sergey Dubinin
Chairman of the Supervisory Council
JSC VTB Bank
Russia
Russian finance system on the
waves of global finance crisis
5/2011 Mika Kaukonen
CEO
VMP Group
Finland
Finland needs a strategy for
immigration
92
5/2011 Irinja Paakkanen
Head of International Affairs
University of Turku
Finland
Current trends of
internationalisation within the
University of Turku
5/2011 Mathias Bergman
Ph.D., Doc
Secretary General
Baltic Sea Action Group/Foundation
for a Living Baltic Sea
Finland
Not why?, not when? – but
how! – innovative solutions for
the Baltic Sea
Scientific Officer
JRC-IPTS Institute for Prospective
Technological Studies
European Commission
Scientific Officer
JRC-IPTS Institute for Prospective
Technological Studies
European Commission
Vicente Carabias, Karel
Haegeman, Alexander
Sokolov, Manfred
5/2011
Spiesberger, Klaus
Schuch, and Irina R.
Kuklina
Deputy Institute Director
HSE Higher School of Economics
Moscow
Russia
Project Manager & Researcher
ZSI Centre for Social Innovation
Austria
Foresight for EU-Russia S&T
and innovation cooperation
Managing Director ZSI
ZSI Centre for Social Innovation
Austria
Executive Director
ICISTE International Centre for
Innovations in Science, Technology and
Education
Russia
5/2011 Marina Bouianov
Lis.Sc. (Tech.)
Development Co-ordinator
Business Development, CSC – IT
Centre for Science
Finland
Some observations on today’s
European and Russian
innovation process
5/2011 Charles Wessner
Director
Technology, Innovation, and
Entrepreneurship
The U.S. National Academies
USA
R&D procurement and the role
of the SBIR program
5/2011 Ivan Bortnik
Professor
Chairman
FASIE
Russia
Innovative entrepreneurships in
Russia
93
President
MIT Enterprise Forum of Russia
Nikolai Puntikov and
5/2011
Stanislav Tkachenko
Dr.
Director of Diplomatic Studies
Programme
Russia
Does the Russian economic
system support technological
entrepreneurship?
5/2011 Fredrik Westerlund
Senior scientist at the Department for
Security Policy & Strategic Studies
(FOI)
Sweden
Russian intelligence services can
help domestic nanotechnology –
by keeping at arm’s length
5/2011 Andrei G. Zabrodskii
Corresponding member of the Russian
Academy of Sciences
Director of the Ioffe Institute
Russia
Ioffe Institute and its
contribution in the development
of nanotechnology in Russia
5/2011 Ruslan Shafiev
Moscow (VNIKI)
Russia
On innovation activity in Russia
and Development
Internationalization of hightech industries – lessons for the
Russian government
5/2011 Adugna Lemi
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts
Boston
USA
Internationalization of R&D –
implications for Russia
5/2011 Kari Liuhto
Member
The Working Group “Transition to
Innovation-based Growth” contributing
to the 2020 Strategy for the Russian
Some policy proposals based on
Government
the Finnish-Russian innovation
collaboration
Professor
University of Turku
Finland
5/2011 Irina Sarno
Kandidat Nauk
Russia-team leader project manager
The Baltic Institute of Finland
Finland
Learning economy in the Baltic
Sea region – an experience of the
Finnish-Russian cooperation
5/2011 Sergey Tsybukov
General Manager
LLC SPA on plastic processing named
after ‘Komsomolskaya Pravda’
Russia
The "Triple Helix" of the Polymer
Cluster
94
5/2011 Alasdair Reid
Director
Technopolis Group (Brussels & Tallinn)
Belgium & Estonia
Integrating national innovation
strategies to leverage the
potential of the Baltic Sea
region
5/2011 Eero Vuorio
Professor, Director
Biocenter Finland
Finland
Biocenter Finland – a novel way
to restructure national research
infrastructures
5/2011 Pekka Ihalmo
Ph.D.
Project Manager
HealthBIO Centre of Expertise
Culminatum Innovation Ltd
Finland
Culminatum works to develop
an attractive innovation
environment for biotechnology in
the BSR
5/2011 Sergey Shishkin
Dr. Sc., Professor
The National Research University
Moscow
Russia
Modernization of public health
care system in Russia
5/2011 Simo Mannila
Dr, Senior Expert
International Affairs, National
Institute for Health & Welfare
Finland
Future perspectives of FinnishRussian cooperation in
neighbouring areas in the field of
social affairs and health
5/2011 Maarit Valo
Professor, Department of
Communication, University of
Jyväskylä
Chair of the Finnish Union of
University Professors
Finland
Technologically-mediated
communication in working life –
a rich area for both basic and
applied research
5/2011 Jorma Nieminen
PhD student
University of Turku
Finland
The emergence in the 1970s of
the Nordic mobile phone services
and industry – learnings for
today
5/2011 Anna Wziątek-Kubiak
Professor
Head of Department
Institute of Economics Polish Academy
of Science
Poland
Heterogeneity of innovation
strategies of Poland’s firms
5/2011 Marjukka Mäyry
Chairperson of the Union of the
Finnish-Polish Associations in Finland
Finland
Friendship between Finland and
Poland
5/2011 Hans Langh
Maritime Counsellor, Honorary
Honorary Doctorate in Economic
Sciences
Founder and Managing Director
Oy Langh Ship Ab
Finland
Maritime transport in winter is
necessary for Baltic Sea states
95
5/2011 Elisa Holma
Researcher
Centre for Maritime Studies at the
University of Turku
Finland
Strong recovery in maritime
transport volumes stalled with
economic uncertainty
5/2011 Vladimir Miklashevsky
Analyst
East Office of Finnish Industries Ltd.
Helsinki
Finland
Real investment in Northwest
Russia – Ground Zero for
reindustrialization?
5/2011
Kim Wikström and
Elena Ganskau
Professor at Åbo Akademi University
Founder of PBI
Research Institute
Finland
Dr. and Managing Director
PBI Research Institute
St. Petersburg
Russia
Adaptation of business models
to local conditions in Russia –
five Nordic companies'
experience
5/2011 Esa Rautalinko
President and CEO
Honkarakenne Oyj
Finland
Implementing a luxury strategy
in Russia
5/2011 Pekka Kuusniemi
President and CEO
Oras Group
Finland
Sanitary ware market
differences in the Baltic Sea
region
5/2011 Nodari Simoniya
Full member of Russian Academy of
Sciences
Russia
Russia – facing new challenges
on the world gas markets
5/2011 Viesturs Ozolins
Export Director
Gebwell Ltd
Finland
5/2011
Svetlana Avdasheva and
Guzel Yusupova
Russia towards energy saving
and renewable energy
Vice-Director
Institute of Industrial and Market
Studies
National Research University
Russia
Researcher
Institute of Industrial and Market
Studies
National Research University
Russia
96
Antitrust cases against Russian
oil companies – battle for cheap
petrol is under way
5/2011
Stanislav Tkachenko and
Dmitry Tkachenko
Dr., Director of Diplomatic Studies
Programme
Russia
School of Economics
Russia
Special Economic Zones in
Russia – new trends
5/2011 Lena Jonson
PhD, Head of Russia Research Program
Swedish Institute of International
Six more years with Vladimir
Affairs
Putin
Sweden
5/2011 Kirill Rodionov
Research Associate
Russia
The outline of political reforms
in future Russia
5/2011 Anaïs Marin
Researcher
Affairs
Finland
Belarus – no economic miracle
for free
5/2011 Barbro Widing
Chief Counsellor
Ministry of Employment&Economy
Finland
Economic cooperation around
the Baltic Sea – in search of
efficiency and good governance
5/2011 Dmitri Lanko
Associate Professor
Russia
Russia’s 2012/2013 CBSS
Presidency
5/2011 Ismo Söderling
Director
Institute of Migration
Finland
Finland, and migration in the
Baltic Sea Region
Project Manager
Professor, Director
5/2011
Malla Paajanen and
Riitta Kosonen
Aalto University School of Economics
Center for Markets in Transition,
Helsinki
Finland
Joint promotion of the Baltic
Sea Region – triple helix
cooperation in practice
5/2011 Liisa Rohweder
CEO, PhD (Econ.)
WWF Finland
Finland
Words cannot save the Baltic
Sea
5/2011 Mikko Nikinmaa
Professor
Department of Biology
University of Turku
Finland
Dioxin in Baltic salmon and
herring – is it a toxicological
problem?
5/2011 Kim Jordas
Managing Director
Finnish Fishermen´s Association
Finland
The challenges of professional
fishery in the Baltic Sea – a
Finnish point of view
97
5/2011 Irina Sennikova
Erik Terk and Jüri
5/2011
Sakkeus
Dr.oec., Asoc. Prof.
Rector
RISEBA (Riga International School of
Economics and Business
Administration)
Latvia
Professor, Director
Tallinn University
Estonian Institute for Futures Studies
H-T Transplan Research Coordinator
Tallinn University
Estonian Institute for Futures Studies
Estonia
Intellectual entrepreneurship as
a way to innovation economy
Future of North-South
connections – about
transportation, but not only
transportation
5/2011 Esa Sallinen
Finland
How to select international
distribution channels for
business software products?
4/2011 Martti Ruokokoski
Consul
Murmansk Office of the Consulate
General of Finland in St Petersburg
Tourism in the Arctic region and
the Kola Peninsula
4/2011 Clive Archer
Emeritus Professor in Politics
Manchester Metropolitan University
UK
The United Kingdom and the
Arctic
4/2011 Lev Voronkov
Doctor of History
Professor of the Chair of European
Integration at the MGIMO –
University
Russia
Russia as the partner in the
Arctic
4/2011 Gleb Yarovoy
Member of the Thematic Network on
Arctic Geopolitics and Security
PhD, Associate Professor at the
Department of the International
Relations
Russia
Russia’s Arctic – a call for the
new Arctic thinking
4/2011 Marlène Laruelle
Research Professor
Institute for European, Russian and
Eurasian Studies (IERES)
The Elliott School of International
Affairs
George Washington University
Russia’s narrative on the Arctic
– from patriotic rhetoric to the
Arctic ‘brand’
98
Chairman of the Northern Research
Forum
University Lecturer and Adjunct
Professor (Docent)
Faculty of Social Sciences
Finland
4/2011 Charles Emmerson
Chatham House (the Royal Institute for Inside out – the emerging
International Affairs)
geopolitics of a changing Arctic
UK
4/2011 Alyson JK Bailes
Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Political Science
University of Iceland
Why does the Arctic matter for
the Baltic (and the Baltic
States)?
4/2011 Alf Håkon Hoel
Regional Director
Institute of Marine Research
Norway
International cooperation in the
Arctic – 20 year anniversary
4/2011 Regis Rouge-Oikarinen
Research Director
ThinkBarents-project
What future for Barents
cooperation?
4/2011 Kristine Offerdal
Norwegian Institute for Defence
Studies
Norwegian Defence University College
New optimism in the Barents
Sea
Professor (of economy)
The Luzin Institute for Economic
Studies (Kola Science Centre of RAS)
Tatiana Petrovna
4/2011 Skufina and Sergey
Vladimirovich Baranov
Ph.D. (Physics-Mathematics)
Senior Researcher
The Luzin Institute for Economic
Studies (Kola Science Centre of RAS)
Globalization and Arctic
Strategies indicators of a new
significant geopolitical change in
the Arctic region
Complex estimation of socioeconomic development of
municipalities of Murmansk
Region
Russia
4/2011 Frank Sejersen
Waterworlds, funded by ERC
Center for Anthropological Climate
Research
Department of Anthropology
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Climate change and the
emergence of a new Arctic region
4/2011 Erik Gant
Executive Secretary
Arctic Council Indigenous
Peoples Secretariat (IPS)
Arctic strategies – from an
indigenous perspective
4/2011 Liisa Holmberg
Rector
Sámi Education Institute
Inari, Finland
Arctic indigenous peoples and
innovations
99
4/2011 Tamara Semenova
Senior Researcher
Russian Research Institute for
Cultural and Natural Heritage named
after Dmitry Likhachev
Moscow, Russia
What future awaits indigenous
peoples in Russia?
4/2011 Stefan Walter
PhD, Researcher
Arctic Centre
Resource management in the
North
4/2011 Frédéric Lasserre
Project Director
ArcticNet
Laval University
Canada
Arctic shipping – the ships will
come, but not for transit
CEO
Arctia Shipping
Finland
Strong Arctic marine expertise
from Finland
University Teacher
University of Turku
Finland
Identifying challenges of
Finnish companies in entering
the Murmansk region
4/2011 Jingchao Peng
Research Assistant
China and Global Security Programme
Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute
What is China doing in the
Arctic?
4/2011 Sanna Kopra
PhD Candidate
Finland
The rise of China and
international politics on climate
change
4/2011 Mia Bennett
Arctic Blogger
Foreign Policy Association
USA
Canadian and American
perspectives on the Arctic
3/2011 Eero Heinäluoma
Speaker of the Parliament
Finland
The Nordic-Baltic cooperation
3/2011 Guido Westerwelle
Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs
Germany
The importance of the Baltic Sea
region for Germany – priorities
of the German presidency of the
Council of Baltic Sea States
(CBSS) 2011/2012
3/2011 Ingrid Nestle
Member of the German Bundestag
Spokeswoman on energy industries of
the Green Parliamentary Group
Germany
Germany’s future energy policy
3/2011 Mikko Pukkinen
Director General of the Confederation
of Finnish Industries (EK)
Finland
Finnish business and the Baltic
Sea region
100
3/2011 Timo Rajakangas
Ambassador for Baltic Sea Issues
Finland
Instead of three no’s it is four
aye’s that apply to the EUSBSR
3/2011 Sten Nordin
Mayor
City of Stockholm
Sweden
Stockholm calls for greater
commitment to the well-being of
the Baltic Sea
3/2011 Vladimir Kuzin
PhD in Economics
Head of the Economic Development
Department
Kaliningrad City Administration
Russia
Post crisis economic growth in
Kaliningrad region
3/2011 Andrey Klemeshev
Dr of Political Science, Professor
Rector of the Immanuel Kant Baltic
Federal University (Kaliningrad)
Russia
University as an example of
EU-Russia cooperation
3/2011 Bernard Lammek
Professor, Rector
University of Gdańsk
Poland
The University of Gdańsk – the
largest institution of higher
education in Northern Poland
3/2011 Edgar Öhberg
Director
The Baltic Sea Fund
The importance of fishery
3/2011 Mika Vehviläinen
President and CEO
Finnair
The Baltic Boutique and the
future of air travel
3/2011 Anneli Pauli
Deputy Director-General
Innovation and ERA
Directorate General for Research &
Innovation
European Commission
EU-Russia cooperation in
promoting innovation
3/2011 Riitta Mustonen
Vice President for Research
Academy of Finland
Finland
Significance of international
activities to the research system
3/2011
Michael Schlicht and
Marion Mienert
Director Division 213: Cooperation
with Russia, CIS
Federal Ministry of Education and
Research
Head of Unit: Cooperation with Russia
and CIS countries
International Bureau of the Federal
Ministry of Education and Research
101
German-Russian collaboration in
research and innovation
3/2011 Vladimir V. Okrepilov
Corresponding Member of RAS
Deputy Chairman of St. Petersburg
Scientific Center of RAS
Member of the Scientific Advisory
Council of the “Skolkovo” Foundation
General Director of FGI “Center for
Testing and Certification - St.
Petersburg”
Russia
Economic development based on
the economics for quality
3/2011 Frank Schauff
CEO
Association of European Businesses in
the Russian Federation
Russia-EU partnership for
modernisation – words and
reality
3/2011 Oleg Luksha
Senior consultant, Chairman of the
board
Russian Technology Transfer Network
Russia
Russian Technology Transfer
Network – gate to Russia’s
innovations
3/2011 Igor Kuprienko
CEO, European-Russian
InnoPartnership
Head, Lappeenranta Representative
Office in St.Petersburg
Director, Finnish-RussianInnovation
Centre
St.Petersburg
Russia
Finnish-Russian Innovation
Centre – main results of
activities
3/2011 Turo Uskali
Senior research Scholar
Department of Communication
Finland
Innovation and journalism –
convergence
Doctoral Student
University of Turku
Finland
Innovations – a key to the
future competitiveness of the
Baltic Sea region
3/2011 Richard Connolly
Lecturer in Political Economy
Studies
United Kingdom
Financial constraints on the
modernization of the Russian
economy
3/2011 Alexander Chulok
Head of Division
Interdepartmental
Analytical Center
Using Foresight as an
instrument for constructing
future vision for key sectors of
Russian economy – results and
lessons
102
3/2011 Anders Björnsson
Science as an engine of
integration – academic
environments as common public
spheres
Editor-in-Chief
Baltic Worlds
ZSI – Centre for Social Innovation
Klaus Schuch, George
3/2011 Bonas and Jörn
Sonnenburg
International Center for Black Sea
Studies and National Hellenic Research
Foundation
Greece
International Bureau of the Federal
Ministry of Education and Research at
the Project Management Agency c/o
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
International science and
technology cooperation in
Eastern European countries
3/2011 Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
Professor, Department of History,
University of Tennessee, USA
Director, Center for the Study of War
and Society
President, Association for the
Advancement of Baltic Studies
War and conflict in the Baltic
Sea region – a historical
perspective
3/2011 Artur Usanov
Strategic Analyst
The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
Kaliningrad Nuclear Power
Plant – economics and
geopolitics
3/2011 Pekka Salomaa
Director, Electricity Supply and
Trading
Finnish Energy Industries
Finland
The electricity market around the
Baltic Sea – still political
3/2011 Bo Petersson
Professor of International Migration
and Ethnic Relations
Malmö University
Sweden
Master of the house – Putin, the
presidency and political myth in
Russia
3/2011 Konrad Popławski
Analyst – German Desk
Is Russia still a bric country –
exports to Russia during the
global crisis from German
perspective
3/2011 Urban Wråkberg
PhD, MScMetE, Senior Researcher
The Barents Institute of the University
of Tromsø
Norway
The challenges of forecasting
Arctic energy projects
3/2011 Mai-Brith Schartau
Associate professor in political science
Södertörn University, Stockholm
Sweden
The work of German
environmental organization in
3/2011 Timo Korpela
Director, Joint Biotechnology
Laboratory
University of Turku
Finland
Joint Biotechnology Laboratory,
twenty-two years FinnishRussian successful collaboration
in biotechnology
103
3/2011 Erik Bonsdorff
Department of Biosciences,
Environmental and Marine Biology
Åbo Akademi University, Turku
Finland
Some ecological and political
challenges for the Baltic Sea
3/2011 Mia Crawford
Senior Adviser & Head
Council of the Baltic Sea States
Secretariat
Baltic Sea region rides on the
green economic wave
3/2011 Eero Yrjö-Koskinen
Executive director
Finnish Association for Nature
Conservation
Finland
From voluntary to legally
binding measures in the Baltic
Sea
3/2011 Níels Einarsson
Director of the Stefansson Arctic
Institute
Akureyri
Iceland
Fisheries governance, equity, and
externalities in post-crisis
Iceland
3/2011 Wolf Born
Coordinator of Priority Area Tourism,
EUSBSR
Head of Unit in the State Chancellery,
Germany
After two years of
implementation – The EU
region at a crossroads?
3/2011 Juha Aaltonen
Airport Manager
Turku Airport
Finland
Turku Airport
3/2011 Arto Asikainen
Area manager
Finnish Tourist Board (Visit Finland)
Finland
Russian tourists in Finland –
national success story of Finland
3/2011 Juhana Tuomola
Information Officer
Europe Information
Finland
EU information services in the
Baltic Sea region
3/2011 Petteri Siika-aho
Planning Officer
University Planning and Development
University of Turku
Finland
Multidisciplinary university and
societal interaction
3/2011 Timo Koivumäki
Managing Director
Business Park Vyborg Ltd
Industrial business parks –
SMSE employment platform in
Russia
President and CEO
Arctia Shipping Ltd.
Efficiency gains through
combination of oil spill recovery,
icebreaking and cross-border
cooperation
3/2011 Tero Hemmilä
CEO
Yara Suomi Oy
Towards environmental friendly
and productive agriculture –
Yara’s solutions for a cleaner
Baltic Sea
104
3/2011 Pasi Lähdetie
Vice President, Green Economy
Raisio Group
Enough food to feed the world?
3/2011 Elisabeth Lind
Elisabeth Lind
Communication and Marketing
Manager
AB Bostaden in Umeå
Affect peoples energy
consumption by design?
3/2011 Katri Savijärvi
Marketing Manager
Molok Oy
A better solution for waste
management
2/2011 Karel De Gucht
Trade Commissioner
European Commission
Overview of current EU-Russia
trade and investment relations
2/2011 Artis Pabriks
Dr., Minister of Defence
Latvia
Challenges and solutions to the
regional security
2/2011 Dirk Ahner
Director-General
Directorate General for Regional Policy
European Commission
Completing the Circle – Russia
and the European Union
Region
2/2011 Björn Grönholm
Head of Secretariat
Union of the Baltic Cities –
Cooperation in change in the
Baltic Sea Region
2/2011 Marko Pomerants
Minister of the Interior of the Republic
of Estonia 2009-2011
Member of the Riigikogu 2011Head of the Legal Affairs Comittee
Pro Patria and Res Publica
Union faction
Estonia
About the underlying documents
that have shaped Estonia’s
policy of internal security
2/2011 Aino-Maija Luukkonen
Mayor
City of Pori
Finland
Pori–Riga – cooperation in the
future
Professor of General Linguistics
Finland
Fred Karlsson, Henrik
2/2011 Lax and Henrik
Meinander
2004-2009 and the Parliament of
Finland 1987-2004
Finland
Finland in need of a strategy for
promoting language skills
Vice Dean and Professor of History
Finland
2/2011 Andrea Goldstein
Head
Global Relations
OECD Investment Division
105
Big business in the BRICs
2/2011 Kai Mykkänen
Economist
East Office of Finnish
Industries Oy
Finland
Russia’s WTO accession might
be a game-changer
2/2011 Vladimir Baranovsky
Deputy Director
Institute of World economy and
International Relations (IMEMO)
Russia
What is bringing the United
States, Europe and Russia
together
Professor
Adjunct Professor, Ph.D.
Mikko Ruohonen and
2/2011
Lea Ahoniemi
2/2011
Anders Blom and Ossi
Tuusvuori
Center for Research on Information,
Customer and Innovation Management
Finland
China is ruling rare earth
elements and oxide production
Chairman
Supervising Board
The Europe Foundation focuses
its future action on the Baltic
Sea Region – Baltic Sea strategy
and protection is a priority area
in Europe
Advisor
Europe Foundation
Finland
Silke Lorenz and
2/2011 Katariina RöbbelenVoigt
Project Coordination
Education and Training Service for
Hamburg Businesses (BWH)
Project Manager BSLN
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Ministry of Science and Research
Forum for social dialogue in the
Baltic Sea Region – a model for
Europe
Germany
2/2011 Marko Lönnqvist
Journalist
Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE
Finland
Shale gas can shake up the
European gas market
2/2011 Lars Petter Lunden
Researcher
Econ Pöyry
Norway
Russian gas price reform and its
impact on exports to Europe
2/2011 Markku Kivinen
Professor, Director
The Aleksanteri Institute
Finland
Energy superpower of business
as usual?
106
2/2011 Pentti-Oskari Kangas
Steamship Captain
s/s Ukkopekka
Old Master of the archipelago estate
Herrankukkaro
Extra hand and part-time pensioner
(only 12 hours/day of work)
THE HAPPY MAN
Finland
I am a happy man
2/2011 Seppo Knuuttila
Senior Research Scientist
SYKE Finnish Environment Institute
Marine Research Centre / State of the
Marine Environment
Finland
Can the Baltic Sea recover from
eutrophication?
2/2011 Juha Salonen
Managing Director
Salonen Bakery (Leipomo Salonen Oy)
Finland
Eating bread to clean up the
Archipelago Sea
2/2011 Irina A. Shmeleva
Russia
Sustainable development of
Saint Petersburg – goals,
problems, strategies
2/2011 Ilppo Vuorinen
Professor
Environmental Research Centre
University of Turku
Finland
Climate change in the Baltic Sea
marine environment
2/2011 Stanislav E. Shmelev
Ph.D., Research Associate
Oxford Department of International
Development
Queen Elizabeth House
Oxford University
UK
Dynamic sustainability
assessment – the case of Russia
in the period of transition (19852007)
Project Manager
2/2011
Martti Komulainen and
Katariina Kiviluoto
2/2011 Aleksandr Nikitin
2/2011
Anne Gry Rønningen
and Ksenia Vakhrusheva
Project Coordinator
BalticSeaNow.info project
Finland
Chairman
ERC (Environmental Rights Centre)
«Bellona» (St.Petersburg)
Russia
Project manager
The Bellona Foundation, Oslo
Norway
Project Manager
The Environmental Rights Center
Bellona, St. Petersburg
Russia
107
Baltic Sea needs public
involvement
Nuclear problems of the NorthWest of Russia (from
Fukushima perspective)
Renewable future in the Russian
Barents Region
2/2011 Ingmar Oldberg
Associate Researcher
Swedish Institute of International
Affairs
Sweden
Security challenges in the Baltic
Sea region – a Swedish
perspective
2/2011 Mikhail Belkin
Assistant to Director General
ROSATOMFLOT
Russia
Northern Sea Route enters
international shipping business
2/2011 Yrjö Myllylä
Doctor of Social Sciences
Senior Researcher
University of Turku
Finland
The North-East Passage is
already a fact
President
Doctor of Technical Sciences,
Professor
Arctic Public Academy of Sciences
2/2011 Valery Mitko
Chairman of Saint-Petersburg
Branch of Geo-Policy and Safety
Section
Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
Russia
Evolution of geopolitical
factors, determining innovative
directions of the Arctic regions
2/2011 Julian Cooper
Professor
Studies
UK
Russia’s human capital and the
task of modernisation
2/2011 Valdar Liive
Director
Enterprise Estonia Helsinki
Estonian-Finnish cooperation in
the fields of innovation, and
R&D as a start-up company
Dr., CEO
Jukka Viitanen and
2/2011
Martti Launonen
2/2011 Henri Vogt
Dr., Chairman
Hubconcepts Inc.
Finland
Professor of International Politics
University of Turku
Finland
Transferring innovation system
knowledge to every-day best
practices
Estonia – ever more firmly in the
nation-liberal course?
Consultant, Dr.
2/2011
Laura Kauhanen and
Pekka Koponen
CEO
Materials technologies transform
Estonian economy
Spinverse Oy
Finland
108
Irina Busygina and
2/2011
Mikhail Filippov
Director
Center for Regional Political Studies
Professor
Moscow State Institute of
Russia
Professor
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
USA
Modernization and innovative
development in Russia – what
lacks?
Dr., Head of Research
2/2011
Päivi Karhunen and
Riitta Kosonen
Prof. , Director
Center for Markets in Transition
Finland
Russia’s modernization program
as opportunity for Baltic Rim
economic cooperation
2/2011 Sinikukka Saari
Dr., Researcher
Affairs
Finland
The boom and crash of
modernisation zeal in EU–
Russia relations
2/2011 Sergey Filippov
Dr., Assistant Professor of Innovation
Management
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands
Innovation strategies of
emerging Russian multinational
companies
2/2011 Katja Weckström
University Lecturer in Intellectual
Property Law
Faculty of Law
University of Turku
Finland
Law in the information society
– a platform for cooperation in
109
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Debrecen University
Faculty of Economics and Business
Administration
Hungary
Hungary
Csaba Makó, Péter
Csizmadia, Miklós
2/2011 Illéssy, Ichiro Iwaskai,
Miklós Szanyi and Péter
Csizmadia
Hungary
Institute of Economic Research
Hitotsubahsi University (Tokyo)
Japan
Institute for World Economics
Debrecen University
Administration
Hungary
Innovation and knowledge
development in the knowledge
intensive business service sector
(cross-country comparison –
Hungary versus Slovakia)
Institute for World Economics
Debrecen University
Administration
Hungary
2/2011 Leena Lehtinen
D.Sc.(Business Adm.), LL.Lic.
Docent, University of Turku
Legal Expert
Law Firm Lex Leena Lehtinen
Tampere
Finland
Are there any landowners in
Russia?
2/2011 Jukka Pietiläinen
Postdoctoral researcher
Aleksanteri-Institute
Finland
Is a new glasnost era beginning?
2/2011 Galina Shmarlouskaya
Doctor of Economics, Professor of
Economics
Dean of School of International
Economic Relations
Belarus
Benefits and challenges in
developing regional integration
(the case of the Customs Union
of Russia, Belarus and
Kazakhstan)
2/2011 Matthew Frear
Dr.
Studies
UK
The EU and Belarus after the
2010 presidential election
110
1/2011 Solvita Āboltiņa
Speaker
The Saeima
The Republic of Latvia
Stability, partnership,
responsibility – Latvia’s way
out of the global financial crisis
1/2011 Olli Rehn
Member of the European Commission
responsible for Economic and Monetary
Affairs
Working for revival of the
European economy
1/2011 Riikka Manner
Member of European Parliament
(Centre Party)
Member of European Parliament
Committee on Regional Development
Regional policy ensures an intact
future for the European Union
1/2011 Ulla-Maj Wideroos
Finland
Nordic cooperation – as
important as ever
1/2011 Arja Karhuvaara
(National Coalition Party)
Member of the Employment Committee
Finland
The many faces of natural gas
1/2011
Krista Kiuru and Vera
Lindman
STETE’s Chair
Secretary General
STETE
Finland
Arctic – the world’s new
playground
Director
1/2011
James Zhan and Astrit
Sulstarova
Investment and Enterprise Division,
and Development (UNCTAD)
Foreign direct investments in
Baltic States – lessons learned
and prospects for the future
1/2011 Maria Gaidar
Deputy Governor
The Kirov Region
Russia
Health care reform in the
Russian Federation
1/2011 Volker Schlotmann
Minister for Transport
Building and Regional
Development of MecklenburgVorpommern
Germany
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as
logistics hub for Baltic Sea
transport
1/2011 Knud Andersen
Member of the BSSSC Board
Member of the Board of Danish
Regions
Denmark
Baltic Sea organisations put
budgetary pressure on EU
decision-makers
1/2011 Hannu Halinen
Arctic Ambassador
Finland
Arctic challenges – a Finnish
view
111
1/2011 Valery Shlyamin
Doctor of Economics
Trade Representative of the Russian
Federation in Finland
Russia
Modernisation of Russian
economy in collaboration with
Finnish partners
1/2011 Olli Perheentupa
Consul General of Finland in St.
Petersburg
Finnish presence in St.
Petersburg
1/2011 Ramune Zabuliene
Deputy Chairperson
Bank of Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania – the adjustment
process towards the euro
1/2011 Maria Kaisa Aula
The Ombudsman for Children in
Finland
The Office of the Ombudsman for
Children in Finland
It pays to invest in the welfare
of children and families
1/2011 Tuula Teeri
President
Aalto University
Finland
Aalto University – think again
1/2011 Tapio Reponen
Vice-rector
University of Turku
Finland
The University of Turku has its
roots far behind and a look into
the future
Chief Executive
European Science Foundation
France
1/2011 Marja Makarow
Professor of Applied Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology
Finland
The European Research Area
needs to go global
1/2011 Joseph Nye
Professor
Harvard University
USA
Russia and reform
1/2011 Fyodor Lukyanov
Editor
Russia in Global Affairs
Russia
Russia at another cross-road
1/2011 Seija Lainela
Senior Economist
Bank of Finland – BOFIT
Finland
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan
on way to closer economic cooperation
1/2011 Sergei F. Sutyrin
Professor, Head
The WTO Chair Holder
Russia
Russia and World Trade
Organization (WTO) – end of
journey or endless one?
112
1/2011 Jukka Ruusunen
President and CEO
Fingrid Oyj
Finland
Baltic Sea electricity market
needs a functioning grid
infrastructure – EstLink 2 will
be one of the main electricity
highways in the region
1/2011 Aloyzas Koryzna
Director General
LIETUVOS ENERGIJA
Lithuania
Lithuanian Energy after the
decommissioning of the Ignalina
nuclear power plant
Director
1/2011
Sergei Pereslegin and
Artiom Zheltov
Senior Analyst
Non-profit public think-tank
Encyclopaedia
Russia
A new nuclear race
1/2011 Alan Riley
Professor
City Law School, City University,
London
The United Kingdom
Whither Gazprom – can
Gazprom survive in a shale gas
world?
1/2011 Jaanus Mutli
Member of the board
Foundation Tallinn 2011
Estonia
Tallinn 2011 invites the world
to hear its sea and its people
1/2011 Anne-Marget Niemi
Director of Tourism
Turku Touring – Southwest Finland
tourist and convention bureau
Finland
Through great commitment a
new tourist destination in the
Baltic Sea is created!
1/2011
Wolfgang Blank, Leonas
Grinius and Peter Frank
BioCon Valley and Chairman of
ScanBalt
Lithuanian Biotechnology Association
Creation of a healthy and
wealthy Baltic Sea Region
(BSR)
ScanBalt
1/2011
Pirjo Karhu and
Manfred Janoschka
Konsu ACCOUNTOR GROUP
Finland-Russia-Ukraine
CEO/Managing Partner
Konsu ACCOUNTOR GROUP
New trends in business in
Moscow–St. Petersburg
1/2011 Markku Mylly
Managing Director
Finnish Port Association
Finland
Port development in the Baltic
Sea Area
1/2011 Karl-Heinz Breitzmann
Prof., Dr., Managing Director
Baltic Institute of Marketing,
Transport and Tourism
University of Rostock
Germany
Impact of the recession on Baltic
maritime transport
113
1/2011 Natalia Ivanova
First Deputy Director
Russia
Russia’s innovation policy and
modernization agenda
Rector, PhD (Econ)
Marja-Liisa Tenhunen
1/2011
and Irja Leppisaari
Principal Lecturer, PhD (Ed)
Central Ostrobothnia University of
Applied Sciences
Finland
The National Innovation
Strategy’s impact on university
of applied sciences learning
environments
1/2011 Leonid Polishchuk
Professor
Russia
“Modernization from above” in
historical perspective
1/2011 Markku Kangaspuro
Dr, Director of Research
Finland
Russia's search for modernizaton
Head of Services
Technopolis
1/2011 Karri Hautanen
Founder
The Finnish Mobile Association
Finland
Baltic Region will be the Silicon
Valley of Europe
1/2011 Manfred Spiesberger
Researcher & project manager
Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI)
Austria
R&D and innovation – a
window of opportunity for
enhanced cooperation with
Russia?
1/2011 Jukka Pietiläinen
Postdoctoral researcher
Aleksanteri-Institute
Finland
Russian modernisation –
technological or socio-cultural
one?
1/2011 Félix Krawatzek
MSc Candidate
Russian and East European Studies
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Modernisation of Russia –
moving beyond rhetoric?
114
1/2011
Thorsten Posselt and
Mathias Rauch
Dr., Director
Fraunhofer Center for Central and
Eastern Europe, Leipzig
Professor for Innovation:
Management and Economics
University of Leipzig
Internationalization activities
of German cluster initiatives –
the role of CEE
Deputy Director
Fraunhofer Center for Central and
Eastern Europe
Leipzig
Germany
1/2011 Sam Inkinen
Media Scholar, Futures
Researcher, Senior Consultant
Finland
Innovation and “innoflation” –
challenges of creative processes,
systemic innovations, and
ubiquitous technologies
1/2011 Alexey Ignatiev
Program and Development Director
Kaliningrad Regional Economic
Development Agency
Russia
The Kaliningrad Region as a
modernization model of modern
Russia
1/2011 Jouko Grönholm
Free lance editor
Finland
How to make the challenges of
Kaliningrad to become true?
1/2011 Tatiana Chekalina
Doctoral Student
European Tourism Research Institute
(ETOUR)
Mid-Sweden University
Sweden
Kaliningrad as an international
tourism destination – still a
challenge
1/2011
Ivan Samson and
Marina Krasilnikova
1/2011 Andrey Pavlov
UPMF, University Grenoble
France
Sociologist, Research Director
Levada Centre Moscow
Russia
Chair of the Master Program “Strategic
Studies”
Russia
115
The middle class in Russia –
emerging reality or old myth?
Russian military reform –
what’s next?
1/2011 Joachim Diec
Adjunct Professor, dr hab.
Chair of Russian History and Political
Thought
Institute of Russia and Eastern Europe
Department of International and
Political Studies
Jagiellonian University
Cracow, Poland
The perspectives of Russian
radical nationalism
1/2011 Markku Jokisipilä
Academic Director
Baltic Sea Region Studies
Master’s Programme
University of Turku
Finland
Kremlin takes its sport seriously
1/2011 Thomas Lundén
Professor of Human Geography (em.)
Center for Baltic and East European
Studies
Sweden
Szczecin – center of a truncated
border region with geopolitical
dilemmas
1/2011 Markku Ollikainen
Professor of Environmental and
Resource Economics
Department of Economics and
Management
Finland
Protecting the Baltic Sea – a
challenge to the international
environmental policy
1/2011 Håkan Knutsson
Managing Director
Sustainable Business Hub
Scandinavia AB
Sweden
Baltic Rim countries in pole
position in the eco-efficiency
race?
1/2011 Juha Ruokonen
Manager, Market Analysis and Policy
Design
GreenStream
Finland
Carbon markets in transition –
opportunities and challenges
1/2011 Sigitas Brazinskas
Commercial attaché
Embassy of Lithuania in
Sweden
Through the integration in the
Nordic Europe to the global
value chains
Professor of Baltic Politics
University of Tartu
1/2011 Andres Kasekamp
1/2011 Päivi Toivanen
Director
Estonian Foreign Policy Institute
Estonia
Publishing Editor
Europe Information
Finland
116
The Baltic States – moving
together or apart?
‘Focus on the Baltic’ book sums
up the facts
1/2011 Alexander Kulakov
Independent Analyst
Ukraine
Political and social stability in
Ukraine after the first year of
Yanukovych’s presidency
1/2011 Markku Tuomola
Lecturer
Department of Management /
Information Systems Science
Turku School of Economics,
University of Turku
Finland
From industrial structures to
agile global service networks – a
disruptive revolution or led
transformation?
6/2010 Egemen Bağış
Minister for EU Affairs
and Chief Negotiator
Republic of Turkey
The future of Europe and
Turkey on the basis of the report
of the EU reflection group
6/2010 Dainius Kreivys
Minister
Ministry of Economy
Lithuania
Post-crisis Lithuania - lessons
and recovery
6/2010
Hannu Takkula and
Vesa Kangaslahti
MEd., Member of the European
Parliament
Ph.D., Special Advisor at the
European Parliament
Education in times of recession
and at the age of innovation
6/2010 Igor Yurgens
Chairman of the Management
Board
The Institute of Contemporary
Development
Russia
Russia’s modernization a
progress report
6/2010 Jaakko Iloniemi
Chairman, M. Pol. Sc., Dr. Pol. Sc. h.c.
Advisory Board
Finland
Modernization of Russia
Professor, Ph.D.
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russia
ICT competence and HRD in
public administration sector of
Russian Federation
6/2010 Seppo Honkapohja
Member of the Board
Bank of Finland
Finland
Economic prospects for Russia
and its implications for the
Baltic Rim region after the
global crisis
6/2010 Gennady G. Melikiyan
First Deputy Chairman
The Central Bank of the Russian
Federation (Bank of Russia)
Russia
Russian banking sector after
global financial crisis
6/2010
Alexander V.
Khoroshilov
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Honorary Consul of the Republic of
Poland in Espoo/Finland
6/2010 Stefan Widomski
Chairman
Forum Polonia Association
Former Senior Vice President /
International Business Affairs Nokia
Corporation
How to develop civic society in
Eastern Europe? From an
academic institute to a civic
think tank. The example of
activity of the Polish Gdańsk
Institute for Market Economics.
Finland
6/2010 Niklas Mannfolk
University of Turku
Student Union
Council President
Finland
6/2010 Cay Sevón
Dr. Soc.Sc., CEO
Turku 2011 Foundation
Finland
Director General
SUE “Vodokanal of St. Petersburg”
6/2010 F.V. Karmazinov
Professor, Doctor of Engineering
Russia
Quo vadis, Evropa? - A look at
the future of European energy
production
Turku 2011 European Capital of
Culture in local and regional
development
Best practices to improve water
quality in the Gulf of Finland as
exemplified by Vodokanal of St.
Petersburg
Project Manager
Carbon Finance and Funds
6/2010
Maija Saijonmaa and
Karl-Johan Lehtinen
Senior Manager,
Environmental Affairs
NEFCO’s role in improving the
environmental status of the
Baltic Sea
NEFCO
Finland
6/2010 Juhani Tervala
Director General
The Finnish Transport Agency
Finland
Minimising close calls with
intelligent transport systems
6/2010 Matti Aaltonen
Director
Maritime Department /
Traffic Management
Finnish Transport Agency
Finland
Safe shipping – the result of
conserted effort
6/2010 Pekka Laaksonen
Director, Tanker Safety project
Finland
The biggest threat for the Gulf
of Finland - oil catastrophe
6/2010 Tommi Kivilaakso
Head of Eastern Customs
District
Finnish Customs
Finland
Changes in the Finnish-Russian
border traffic and customs
cooperation
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Researcher, Ph.D.
Affairs
Finland
What makes modernization a
political project?
6/2010 Einari Kisel
Deputy Secretary General of Energy
Ministry of Economic Affairs and
Communications
Estonia
Decisive years in creation of the
Baltic power market
6/2010 Antero Jännes
CEO
Gasum OY
Finland
Gas around the Baltic Sea
6/2010 Matti Hilli
Managing Director
Vapo Oy
Finland
Renewable energy markets in
Baltic Sea region from a
perspective of a bioenergy
company
6/2010 Pami Aalto
Jean Monnet Professor, Director
The Jean Monnet European Centre of
Excellence University of Tampere
Finland
How will Russia cope in the
emerging new energy agenda?
6/2010 Joseph Dutton
Energy Analyst
Douglas-Westwood Ltd
The United Kingdom
The Shale Gale – perfect storm
or flitting breeze?
6/2010 Kalervo Väänänen
MD, Ph.D., Academic Rector
University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio
Finland
University of Eastern Finland,
an example of Finnish university
reform
Head of Division
6/2010
6/2010
Antti Valle and Pirjo
Kutinlahti
Ilya Romanovich
Shegelman
6/2010 Kai Savolainen
Ministerial Adviser
Economy
Finland
Baltic Sea Region – a globally
recognised innovation hub
Vice-rector for Innovations
Professor, Doctor of Technical
Engineering
Russia
University in innovative space
region
Research Professor
Nanosafety Research Centre
Finnish Institute of Occupational
Health
Finland
Assuring safe use of engineered
nanomaterials and
nanotechnologies - a challenge
for the future or today?
119
Partner
Strategy Partners Group
Russia
6/2010
Alexey Prazdnichnykh
and Kari Liuhto
Professor, Director
University of Turku
Finland
The Russian CEOs analyse the
innovation activity of their
company
Jarosław Ćwiek6/2010
Karpowicz
Research Fellow, Ph.D.
The Polish Institute of
Poland
Partnership for modernisation –
incentive to revise the EURussia relations
6/2010 Pasi Malinen
Prof., D.Sc. (Econ.&Bus. Admn.)
BID Business Innovation and
Development
University of Turku
Finland
Universities’ innovation and
entrepreneurship activities at
cross-roads in Baltic Sea Region
– case Pskov
CEO
Jari Lähteenmäki and
6/2010
Jarkko Heinonen
6/2010 Juha Stenholm
Finland
Finland should dare to take
initiative - the strategy for the
Baltic Sea region needs to be
concretized
Area Director
Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce,
Representative office in Moscow
Way out of the crisis privatization of Russian federal
property
Assistant Manager
Partner, Tax and Legal
Sergey Stefanishin,
6/2010 Alexey Skvortsov and
Yulia Tsykalo
Senior Manager, Tax and Legal
Senior, Tax and Legal
Ernst & Young (Moscow office)
Russia
Game rules for foreign
investments in strategic
companies in Russia
6/2010 Heli Pellikka
Senior Manager, Russia – Nordic Desk
Ernst & Young Oy
Finland
Combining the requirements of
Russian Accounting Principles
and IFRS – challenge for many
international companies
6/2010 Krista Taipale
Head of Office
Turku-Southwest Finland
European office
Belgium
It has been a year since the
implementation of the EU
Region started – how is the
situation today?
6/2010 Aku Alanen
Senior Statistician, Researcher
Statistics Finland
Finland
Large towns dominant in the
economy of culture in Finland
120
6/2010 Marcus Svedberg
Marcus Svedberg
Chief Economist
East Capital AB
France
Herd mentality
6/2010 Irina Novikova
Professor
Center for Gender Studies
Latvia
Gender equality in Latvia –
achievements and challenges
6/2010 Keir Giles
Director
Conflict Studies Research
Centre
The United Kingdom
Russian military transformation
– work in progress
Expert-Analyst
The National Security Bureau of
Poland
The Editor-in-Chief of the Pulaski
Policy Papers
Poland
6/2010
Dominik P. Jankowski
and Barbara Kirejczyk
Project Manager for Scandinavia and
the Baltic States The Eastern Institute
in Warsaw
Research Fellow
Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Poland
Baltic Sea sustained stability vs.
Black Sea geopolitical struggle myth or reality?
6/2010 Marat Terterov
Director and Principal Founder, Dr.
European Geopolitical Forum
Belgium
Bringing Russia into NATO - a
Trojan horse in the making
Former Navy Commodore
Finland
On security management and
precautions on municipal level
5/2010 Mykola Azarov
Prime Minister of Ukraine
Ukraine – Finland: European
rapprochement
5/2010 Johannes Hahn
Commissioner for Regional
Development
The European Commission
A look at the EU Strategy for
the Baltic Sea
5/2010 Norbert Röttgen
Dr., Federal Environment Minister
Federal Ministry for the
Environment, Nature Conservation
and Nuclear Safety
Germany
Germany – an important player
in international Baltic Sea
protection
5/2010 Knut Fleckenstein
Chairman of the Delegation to the
EU-Russia Parliamentary
Cooperation Committee
The EU-Russia modernisation
partnership – what's in it?
121
5/2010 Bruce J. Oreck
Ambassador
Embassy of the United States of
America
Helsinki, Finland
New energy development in the
Baltic
5/2010 Christer Michelsson
Ambassador of Finland to Ukraine
The relations between Finland
and Ukraine in 2010
5/2010 Mikko Paatero
National Police Commissioner,
Chief of the National Police Board
Finland
Baltic Sea Region Task Force on
organised crime
5/2010 Jacqueline McGlade
Professor, Executive Director
European Environment Agency
Denmark
The main environmental
challenges of the 2010's in the
Baltic Sea region
5/2010 Zygmunt Berdychowski
Chairman
Economic Forum Programme
Council
Economic Forum in Krynica,
Poland – 20 years of rethinking
the world and boosting the
region
5/2010 Hans Brask
Director
Denmark
The EU Strategy – keep focus
on green and smart growth in
5/2010 Jaakko Kiander
Managing Director
The Labour Institute for Economic
Research
Finland
European imbalances and Baltic
region growth potential
5/2010 Klaus Wittmann
Brigadier General (ret.), Dr.
Germany
Towards NATO’s new Strategic
Concept
5/2010 Derek Averre
Dr., Director
Studies
UK
Russia-NATO relations - time
for a change?
5/2010 Riina Kaljurand
Deputy Director of the International
Centre for Defence Studies
Baltic Sea security - issue or
non-issue?
5/2010 Risto Sulkava
Ph.D., President of the Board
Finnish Association for Nature
Conservation
Finland
What is the right price for
nature?
5/2010 Anne Berner
Managing Director
Vallila Interior
Finnish Family Firms Association
Finland
Family business - does
ownership matter?
122
5/2010 Harri Kerminen
President & CEO
Kemira Oyj
Finland
Baltic Sea – Kemira at your
service
5/2010 Aimo Eloholma
Chairman of the Board of Directors
“OJSC” MegaFon (Russia)
Finland
Russia - affordable Internet
access across the country
5/2010 Mikael Aro
President and CEO
VR Group
Finland
Rail services connecting Finland
and Russia
5/2010 Matti Miettunen
M.Sc. (Econ. & Bus. Adm.)
Managing Director
Delta Freight Ltd.
Finland
Take the A Train
5/2010 Darius Brekys
The Board Member
Lithuanian National Freight
Association LINEKA
Lithuania
Lithuania - a narrow corridor
for heavy transit freight
5/2010 Miroslawa Ponczek
Marketing Specialist
C. Hartwig Gdynia S.A.
Poland
Simplified customs procedures on
EU territory in international
transport of goods by sea
5/2010 Nikolay Shavrov
Station manager
Innovation Norway St.Petersburg office
Russia
Russian Maritime sector in 2010
5/2010 Nikolay Dobronravin
Professor
Russia
Maritime issues in Russia’s
energy politics in the Baltic Sea
Region
5/2010 Claus Lassen
Managing Director
DHL Express Denmark
Denmark
DHL Express Denmark –
competing for a great future
5/2010 Kai Mykkänen
Economist
East Office of Finnish
Industries Oy
Finland
What do Finnish investment in
Russia tell us?
5/2010 Kalle Euro
City of Turku
Director of Turku Region Development
Centre
Finland
Russia – not such a mystery
after all
123
Dr., Prof., Vice Rector for Scientific
Affairs
Alexander Karlik and
5/2010
Olga Garanina
Dr., Head of Center for Energy Policy
Research and Training
Unconventional gas and Russia
St Petersburg State University of
Russia
5/2010 Matthew Hulbert
Senior Fellow,
Center for Security Studies
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
Vice-president in charge of
European and international
relations
5/2010 Eric Brunat
Faculty of Law and Economics
IREGE Research Center
University of Savoie
France
Europe’s lethargy Russia’s
opening
Successful scientific and
technological ‘Modernizatsia’ in
Russia requires institutional and
economic changes
5/2010 Viatcheslav Morozov
Associate Professor of
University of Tartu
Estonia
Dmitry Medvedev’s
modernisation from above
5/2010 Stefan Hedlund
Professor
Uppsala Centre for Russian and
Eurasian Studies
Uppsala University
Sweden
Economies in transition and
transition economics
5/2010 Riitta Pyykkö
Chair of the Finnish Higher
Education Evaluation Council
FINHEEC
Professor of Russian Language
and Culture
University of Turku
Finland
Common understanding of
quality as a basis for the
development of cooperation in
higher education between
Finland and Russia
5/2010 Louis Clerc
Ph.D., University Lecturer
Department of Political Studies
University of Turku
Finland
Trade, trade, trade - Russia from
a French perspective in 2010
5/2010 Ilmari Larjavaara
Dr. (Soc.Sc), Researcher
(TUT)
Finland
Do we need better "institutional
marketing" in Russian trade?
124
5/2010 Alexander Gogolevskiy
Professor, Doctor of History
Rector
Pskov State Pedagogical University
Russia
Pskov State Pedagogical
University on the way to the
European higher education area
5/2010 Jesper Roine
Associate Professor of Economics and
Deputy Director
Economics (SITE)
Sweden
The Russia-Belarus energy
relationship – a reluctantly
continuing affair
5/2010 Gabriele Kötschau
Lawyer in Flensburg
Germany
Belarus - a Baltic Sea country?
5/2010 Juhani Salokannel
Executive Manager
Tuglas Society
Finland
Two neighbours
5/2010 Pekka Räsänen
Professor of Economic Sociology
University of Turku
Finland
ICT use and ageing populations
in Baltic area
5/2010 Marko Lehti
Senior research fellow, Tampere Peace
Research Institute, University of
Tampere
Academic Director of Baltic Sea Region
Studies, University of Turku
Finland
Baltic success story – but what
next?
5/2010 Xiaotian Zhang
Ph.D. exp, Doctoral
Researcher, Co-lecturer
Faculty of Economics and
Business Administration
University of Tartu
Chairman & Founder
Raatuse International Trade
Estonia
“To Be or Not To Be” business
relations between the Baltic
States and China, example of
Estonia
Ph.D., Professor, Director
Contemporary Foreign Policy
Studies Centre
Bulgaria
Black Sea economic cooperation
– how good example it is for the
Baltic Region?
5/2010 Zeki Kütük
Docent, researcher
Tampere Peace Research
Institute
Finland
Turkey as an energy import
corridor
5/2010 Andriy Chubyk
Executive Director
Centre for Global Studies
“Strategy XXI”
Ukraine
Ukraine and its future role in
the EU-Russia gas transit
125
5/2010 Petteri Hannonen
CEO
Ampparit Oy
Finland
Entering Russian markets – a
point of view of a Finnish SME
5/2010 Timo Painilainen
Master of Social Sciences
Researcher
Environmental Sociology
University of Turku
Finland
Finnish press presents an image
of a nauseous Baltic Sea
4/2010 Vlad Filat
Prime Minister
The Republic of Moldova
Bringing Moldova closer to the
European Union
4/2010 Libor Rouček
Vice-President, S&D
European Parliament
Endangered European security?
4/2010 Maud Olofsson
Minister for Enterprise and Energy,
Deputy Prime Minister
Sweden
Energy co-operation in the
Baltic Sea region
4/2010 Carl Haglund
4/2010 Jenni Kuronen
4/2010 Ramūnas Vilpišauskas
Member
European Parliament
EU and Russia – why they
Vice Chair of the Parliament Intergroup matter for the Baltic Sea
for the Baltic Sea
Researcher
Centre for Maritime Studies University
of Turku
Finland
Director of the Institute of
International Relations and
Political Science
Vilnius University
Former Chief Economic and
Social policy Advisor to
the President of Lithuania
4/2010 Jukka Gustafsson
4/2010 M. de Haas
Project Director
Sales & Marketing
STX Finland Oy
Turku, Finland
Navy Commodore (ret)
Finland
Lieutenant Colonel Dr.
The Netherlands Institute of
International Relations Clingendael
The Netherlands
126
Fundamental changes are needed
in the governance of maritime
safety
Lithuania and euro – a second
opportunity not to be missed
Current challenges of Finnish
and Russian shipbuilding –
collaboration in R&D and
building of ice class special
tonnage
The Arctic region is warming up
as a result of climatic change,
and the repositioning of security
policy
Russia’s future security stance
versus friends and foes
4/2010 Seppo Ruohonen
Lieutenant Colonel GS (ret)
Finland
Changing Baltic Sea military
threats
4/2010 Nikita Lomagin
Professor
World Economy Department,
Russia
Medvedev’s fourteen points –
any added value for global
security?
4/2010 Peter F. Johnston
Strategic Analyst
Defence Research and
Development Canada – Centre for
Operational Research and Analysis
Canada
Arctic energy resources and
security
4/2010 Timo Hellenberg
Dr., Executive Director
Hellenberg International
Finland
How to secure the Arctic – more
joint exercises, less high level
declarations
4/2010 Katarzyna Zysk
Dr., Senior Fellow
Norwegian Institute for Defence
Studies
Norway
Visiting Research Scholar
The U.S. Naval War College,
Center for Naval Warfare Studies
USA
Russian perspectives on Arctic
security
4/2010 Teemu Palosaari
Research Fellow
Tampere Peace Research Institute
Finland
Ice melts, peace prevails. The
race for resources in the Arctic?
4/2010 Joan Nymand Larsen
Senior Scientist
Stefansson Arctic Institute
Iceland
Northern economies in a time of
change
4/2010 Timo Koivurova
LL.D., Research professor, director
Northern Institute for Environmental
and Minority Law, Arctic Centre
Finland
Who should be governing the
Arctic?
4/2010 Tatiana Romanova
Dr, Associate Professor
School of International Politics and
International Economics
Russia
Russia in the Arctic area - more
issues than it seems?
127
4/2010 Roderick Kefferpütz
4/2010 Yrjö Myllylä
Associate Research Fellow
Centre for European Policy Studies
(CEPS)
Belgium
Managing Director,
Doctor of Social Sciences
RD Aluekehitys Oy
Finland
Professor of European Affairs
Vrije Universiteit Brussels
4/2010 Amelia Hadfield
Institute for European Studies
Belgium
Putting Russia’s Arctic policy
into perspective
Russia's geopolitical focus has
moved to the North - the
development of Murmansk
region in the light of three
scenarios
Arctic adventures - cold shoulder
or hot prospects?
4/2010 Anna Sirina
Senior Researcher
Department for Siberian and Northern
Studies
Institute of Ethnology and
Anthropology
Russia
Indigenous peoples of the North
in Russian politics today
Research Associate
Finland
The uncertain future of the
Shtokman gas field project in the
Barents Sea
4/2010 Sami Andoura
Research Fellow
Notre Europe
France
Towards a European Energy
Community - an opportunity for
the Baltic
Dr., Vice-Rector on International
Relations
St. Petersburg State University of
4/2010 Dmitry V. Vasilenko
4/2010 Susanne Oxenstierna
Head of Organizing committee of the
International scientific conference
“Energetika XXI: economy, policy,
ecology”
Russia
Doctor of Economics
Senior Researcher
Stockholm
128
The EU gas market - doomed to
Kalakh game
The Russian nuclear renaissance
4/2010 Peter Lund
Professor
Aalto University School of Science and
Technology
Finland
It is time to think more with
brain than muscles in the Baltic
Sea Region energy debate
Professor of International Business,
4/2010 Asta Salmi
4/2010 Juha Väätänen
Programme Manager for the Research
Programme on Business Know-how,
Academy of Finland
Finland
Professor, International business &
transitional economies
Academic Director,
Global Management of Innovation and
Technology - Master’s Degree
Programme
Innovations and Finnish–
Russian research co-operation
How do Russian companies
innovate?
Faculty of Technology Management
(LUT)
Finland
4/2010 Kristiina Helenius
Managing Director
AmCham Finland
It’s time to step up FDI efforts
Professor of Law
Ralph Hirdina and
4/2010
Thomas Jost
University of Applied Sciences
Aschaffenburg
German investment in the Baltic
States
Germany
4/2010 Tauno Taajamaa
Managing Director
FINTRA
Finland
Dr. Economics, Professor
Department of Finance and Credit
Sochi State University for Tourism and
Recreation
4/2010 Andrei A. Tatarinov
4/2010 Kimmo Rentola
Head of Laboratory of Regional
Economics
Sochi Research Centre
Russian Federation
Professor of Contemporary History
University of Turku
Finland
129
We should know how to do
business with Russia – but do
we really?
Olympic winter games in Sochi –
costs and expected benefits
Post-Cold War politics of
history
3/2010 Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
Commissioner for Research, Innovation
and Science
The European Commission's
Europe 2020 vision for research
and innovation
3/2010 Tõnis Lukas
Minister of Education and Research
Estonia
R&D in Estonia – capacity
building in progress
3/2010 Mitro Repo
MEP
European Parliament
The Baltic Sea – at the cross
roads of politics and religion
3/2010 Mart Laar
Member of the Estonian Parliament
Estonia
Estonia joins Euro zone
3/2010 Susanna Huovinen
Representative
(Social Democrat)
Chair of the Environment
Committee
The Baltic needs intensive
measures
3/2010 Christina Gestrin
MP
Finland
Broad parliamentary support for
Baltic Sea Region initiatives
3/2010 Alexander Prokhorenko
Chairman of the Committee for
External Relations
Saint Petersburg
Russia
We are linked not only by
pragmatics
3/2010 Armas Lahoniitty
The Finnish St.Petersburg Foundation
acting councel
Former Lord Mayor of Turku
Finland
Turku and St. Petersburg
3/2010 Dmitriy Lisenkov
Managing Director
RUSNANO
Russia
Natural cooperation takes a
substantial effort to start
Professor, President
3/2010
Markku Mattila and
Laura Raaska
Adjunct Professor, Director
Science to the rescue of the
Baltic Sea
Academy of Finland
3/2010 Veli-Pekka Saarnivaara
Director General, CEO
Tekes – Finnish Funding
Agency for Technology and
Innovation
Finland
Region and innovation policy
3/2010 Keith Silverang
CEO
Technopolis Plc
Finland
Creating the world’s first global
innovation hub chain:
Technopolis is now operating in
Finland, Russia and Estonia –
and just getting warmed up
130
3/2010 N Tapani Saarinen
Vice President,
Business Development
Turku Science Park Ltd
Finland
Is there a new Finnish
Innovation System?
3/2010 Simo Karetie
Chief Policy Adviser
Trade Policy and International
Relations
EK
Finland
Chinese innovation and it’s
significance for Finland
3/2010 Tuomo Airaksinen
CEO
Invest in Finland
Finland
International companies can
boost Finland's innovation
system
3/2010 Lauri Lajunen
Rector
The University of Oulu
Finland
The University-Business
Partnerships
First Vice-Rector,
State University
Higher School of Economics, and
3/2010 Leonid Gokhberg
3/2010 Gennady Korolyonok
Timur Gareev and Igor
3/2010
Denisov
3/2010 Pirjo Vuokko
Director, HSE
Institute for Statistical Studies and
Economics of Knowledge
Russia
Vice-Rector,
Research and Development
Republic of Belarus
Vice-rector for Innovation
Immanuel Kant State University
of Russia (IKSUR)
Russia
Deputy director
Kaliningrad Center of
Technology Transfer (KCTT)
Russia
Adjunct Professor
Director for Corporate Links
and Adult Education
Turku School of Economics at
University of Turku
Finland
131
Principles for a new-generation
innovation policy
Trade relations between the
Republic of Belarus and the
Republic of Finland in progress
Development of innovations in
Kaliningrad Region - general
characterization and overview
of the perspectives
Branding the university - why
and how?
3/2010
Jaak Treiman and Liisa
Välikangas
3/2010 Kari Liuhto
Honorary Consul of Estonia for
California
Professor
Aalto University
Finland
Leader of the project
“Russia’s Innovation System”
(Grant No. 118338) funded by the
Academy of Finland
Professor, Director
Finland
3/2010 Fraser Cameron
3/2010
Oleg N. Misko and
Sergei F. Sutyrin
Director
The EU Russia Centre
Belgium
Chancellor
City Agency for Industrial
Investments
Government of St. Petersburg
Professor, Head
Russia
Estonia and the EU – political
innovation and the quest for
independence
Rosnano and Skolkovo are
Russia’s best innovation
promoting measures,
but they are not enough to
modernise Russia as a whole
The EU-Russia modernisation
partnership
Can Saint-Petersburg meet the
challenge of innovation age?
3/2010 Hiski Haukkala
Special Adviser
The Unit for Policy Planning and
Research
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Finland
The EU and Russia already
have what it takes to succeed
3/2010 Igor Torbakov
Senior Researcher
Finnish Institute of
Finland
Assessing the prospects of
Russia’s modernization
3/2010
3/2010
Stanislav Tkachenko and
Dmitry Tkachenko
Valtteri Kaartemo and
Kari Liuhto
Dr., Professor of European Studies
School of Economics
Russia
Lecturer of International
Business
Professor
Finland
132
Progress of the Special Economic
Zones in North-West Russia
The bumps in Russia’s
innovation chase
3/2010 Irina Dezhina
3/2010 Kaisa-Kerttu Peltola
Head of Economics of
Science and Innovations
Division, Ph.D.
International Relations, RAS
Russia
Researcher
Finland
Big projects as a stimulus for
innovation development in
Russia
Developing the Russian
innovation system – potential
for increased cooperation with
Finland
M.Sc. (Econ.), M. Sc. (Hum.)
University Teacher, Marketing
3/2010
Leena Aarikka-Stenroos
and Birgitta Sandberg
D.Sc. (Econ.) Assistant Professor,
Coordinator of the Global
Innovation Management
Master’s Degree Programme
Turku School of Economics, University
of Turku
Commercialisation of
innovations requires cooperation and networks
3/2010 Jari Kaivo-oja
PhD, Research Director
University of Turku
Finland
Systemic innovation thinking as
a tool for breakthrough
innovations
3/2010 Tuomas Mylly
Acting Professor of European Law
Faculty of Law,
University of Turku
Finland
Does the European Union
overprotect intellectual
property?
3/2010 Igor Nevzorov
Manager
Ernst & Young, Legal Services
Russia
Main peculiarities of the
Russian intellectual property
legislation
CEO
3/2010
Mika Aaltonen and
Michael Loescher
CIO
Research and Analysis Corporation
(RAC) of Finland
The perfect storm
3/2010 Christopher S. Chivvis
Political Scientist
RAND & Adjunct Professor
Johns Hopkins, SAIS”v
USA
NATO, Russia, and the future
of the European security system
3/2010 Tatu Laurila
CEO
Greater Helsinki Promotion Ltd
Finland
EU? Baltic Sea Region?
Finland? Helsinki? There are
many to choose from, but which
one will succeed?
133
3/2010 Iikka Korhonen
Director
Bank of Finland Institute for
Economies in Transition, BOFIT
Finland
Russia’s medium-term growth
prospects still uncertain
3/2010 Ivan Korolev
Deputy Director
Russia - two years after the
crisis
M.A., Director
3/2010
Andreas Klein and Catja
Gaebel
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s
regional office for the Baltic States
based in Riga and in charge for the
Baltic Sea Cooperation of the
Foundation
Raising Germany’s awareness of
Nordic Researcher
The London office of the Kondrad
Adenauer Foundation
3/2010 Maria-Elena Cowell
Consultant, entrepreneur
Vice Group Secretary,
Nordic Council Conservative Group
Nordic co-operation - fading to
oblivion or resurrection through
regionalism?
3/2010 Anne Erkkilä
Director
University of Turku
Finland
Comprehensive coordination of
environmental monitoring is
necessary for ecosystem-based
management of coastal and
marine areas
3/2010 Hardo Pajula
Economist
SEB Estonia
In search of a narrative
3/2010 Harri Melin
Professor of Sociology
Department of Social Research
Finland
Enterprise´s social responsibility
3/2010 Jarkko Heinonen
Assistant Manager, Economist
BCCA Office Representative
Finland
Business in the Baltic Sea
Region- future perspective
3/2010
Saara-Sofia Sutela and
Antti Koskinen
3/2010 Andrey Shadurskiy
Finland
Increasing tourism in the Baltic
Sea Region
Senior lecturer
School of International Relations,
Russia
Unconventional gas- is there a
quite revolution and what does
it mean for the Russian energy
policy?
134
Commodore (ret)
Finland
On energy dependence and
service security
2/2010 Maria Damanaki
Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and
Fisheries
Making the sea a safer place
2/2010 Sirkka-Liisa Anttila
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
Finland
Measures of Finnish farmers to
prevent the eutrophication of the
Baltic Sea
2/2010 Jürgen Ligi
Minister of Finance
Estonia
Estonia and Euro - continuation
of long-term policy of fiscal
prudence
2/2010 Arvydas Sekmokas
Minister of Energy
Lithuania
Changing energy security
environment in Lithuania - old
challenges and new responses
2/2010 Sergei Martynov
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Belarus
Hopes and concerns over the
Eastern Partnership- the
Belarus’ view
2/2010 Jutta Urpilainen
Chairman
SDP
Finland
The success of the Baltic Sea
region is anchored to
communality
2/2010 Anneli Jäätteenmäki
MEP
European Parliament
The EEAS is coming - do not
expect a big bang
2/2010 Sergey L. Katanandov
Head of the Republic of Karelia
Russia
Main vectors of cooperation
2/2010 Heikki
Aurasmaa
Undersecretary of State
Economy
Finland
The Baltic Sea - example for the
whole Europe
2/2010 Oleg V. Fomichev
Director
Department of Strategic
Innovation policy in Russia Management and Budgeting
new trends
Ministry of Economic Development The
Russian Federation
2/2010 Vesa Häkkinen
Deputy Director
Passport and Visa Unit
Finland
No shortcut to visa-free travel
2/2010 Vilius Navickas
Mayor
Vilnius
Lithuania
Vilnius city - for the admirers of
modern life and unique
traditions
135
2/2010 Arto Mustajoki
Professor of Russian
Chair of the Board of the Finnish St
Petersburg Foundation
Finland
”Finnish House” in the heart of
St Petersburg
2/2010 Lasse Paitsola
President and CEO
Nurminen Logistics Plc
Finland
Those who adapt survive
Researcher
The Finnish Institute of
Finland
Ten-year anniversary of the
Russian international transport
corridors - what lies ahead?
Commercial attaché
Embassy of Lithuania in Sweden
Growing role of sustained
transport links and contribution
to region’s competitiveness
news from Lithuania
2/2010 Timo Laukkanen
Senior Advisor
Confederation of
Finnish Industries EK
Finland
The Baltic Sea Strategy and
economic growth in the Baltic
Sea Region
2/2010 Hans-Joachim Spanger
Dr, Member of the Executive and
Head of Research Area
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Germany
De-securitize the Russia policy
of the West
2/2010 Sven G. Holtsmark
Dean of the Norwegian Defence
University College
Senior Fellow at the Norwegian
Institute for Defence Studies
Norway
Arctic security – beating the
alarm for the wrong reasons
2/2010 Philip Hanson
Professor, Associate Fellow
Chatham House Russia and Eurasia
Programme
The Royal Institute of International
Affairs
The United Kingdom
Russia’s modernization
campaign - towards a high-tech
Potemkin village?
2/2010 Martin Vermeer
Professor of Geodesy
Aalto University
Finland
Sea level rise in the Baltic Sea
2/2010 Philipp Schwartz
Dr, Head of the Joint Technical
Secretariat
Central Baltic INTERREG IV A
Programme 2007-2013
Finland
The beginning of the end of
European integration?
136
2/2010 Nils Muiznieks
PhD., Director
Advanced Social and Political Research
Institute (ASPRI)
Latvia
Latvian-Russian relations - a
new thaw?
2/2010 David J. Galbreath
Senior Lecturer
University of Aberdeen
United Kingdom
Minority rights in the Baltic
States
Dr.
Center for Equality Advancement
Lithuania
Limits of Europeanization policy discourses on minority
rights in Lithuania
2/2010 Marek Tiits
The Institute of Baltic Studies
Estonia
The Baltic economies after a
perfect storm
2/2010 Kirsi Stjernberg
Special Planner
Regional Council of
Southwest Finland
Finland
EU Baltic Sea strategy: regions
taking the chance – are they?
2/2010 Heiko Pääbo
Head
Centre for Baltic Studies
University of Tartu
Estonia
Baltic Studies - a changing
research agenda
2/2010 Pellervo Erkkilä
Chairman
Finnish- Estonian Trade Association
Finland
Finnish investments in Estonia
2/2010 Kimmo Elo
Adjunct professor, lecturer of political
science
Contemporary History
University of Turku
Finland
The Baltic Sea - our common
mare politicum
2/2010 Nina I. Bohdan
Professor
Belarus
National innovative system in
Belarus - glance at the regions
2/2010 Laurynas Kasciunas
Expert
Eastern Europe Studies Centre
Lithuania
Interactions between a postmodern (the EU) and modern
(Russia) players of international
relations - setbacks for mutual
integration
2/2010 Kirsi Kostia
New business competence through
executive MBA programmes
New business competence
through executive MBA
programmes
1/2010 Jerzy Buzek
President
EU-Russia relations - getting it
right
2/2010
Vilana PilinkaiteSotirovic
137
1/2010 Valdis Dombrovskis
Prime Minister
Latvia
Latvia’s lesson – from crisis to
sustainable growth
1/2010 Mari Kiviniemi
Minister of Public Administration and
Local Government
Finland
Baltic Sea region offers great
potential
1/2010 Søren Gade
Minister of Defence
Denmark
Security in a modern world - the
example of the Baltic States
1/2010 Sten Tolgfors
Minister for Defence
Sweden
Common and improved maritime
surveillance
1/2010 Krišjānis Kariņš
MEP
Latvia
The Baltic energy sector
1/2010 Anne-Mari Virolainen
Finland
Save the Baltic Sea and boost
the economy
Rector,
Ilkka Pöyhönen and
1/2010
Minna Martikainen
Vice Rector for
Promising challenges for Finnish
economy - Russian market and
Lappeenranta University of Technology Northern Dimension
Finland
1/2010 Oleg V. Kharkhordin
Professor
Rector of the European University at
St. Petersburg
Russia
Baltic Sea as Res Publica limits and prospects
1/2010 Maija Palonheimo
Director
University Communications
University of Turku
Finland
Education must be marketed
1/2010 Gerhard Sabathil
Dr., Director for Strategy, Coordination
and Analysis
Directorate General RELEX - L
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Baltic interconnections and
beyond - how the European
Commissions works towards
energy security in Europe
1/2010 Leonid Grigoriev
President of Institute for Energy &
Finance
Moscow
Russia
Happy end of pipeline conflicts?
Boyan Kavalov and
1/2010
Hrvoje Petric
European Commission – JRC Institute
for Energy
Petten
The Netherlands
The future role of LNG in EU’s
gas supply – issues for
consideration
138
1/2010 Pekka Sutela
Principal Adviser, Monetary Policy and
Research
Bank of Finland
Finland
Eurasian oil and gas - are
perceptions changing too fast?
1/2010 Rafael Fernández
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Economics
Complutense Institute of International
Studies
Spain
Russia’s future gas export
capability
1/2010 Roderick Kefferpütz
Brussels-based Political Advisor
specializing in Eurasian energy and
foreign policy
Belgium
Gazprom’s uncertain future
within the gas market’s ‘quiet
revolution’
1/2010 Indra Øverland
Acting Head of Department of Russian
and Eurasian Studies, NUPI
Associate Professor II, University of
Tromsø
Norway
The surge in unconventional gas
- implications for Russian export
strategies
Dr., Researcher
1/2010
Andreas Heinrich and
Heiko Pleines
Dr., Head of the Department Politics
and Economics
Research Centre for East European
Studies [Forschungsstelle Osteuropa]
University Bremen
Germany
Factors explaining the smooth
co-operation between German
and Russian gas companies
Acting Professor for Russian Energy
Policy
Finland
Russia’s Wild East problematising Russia’s gas
industry in Sakha
1/2010 Mikhail Korchemkin
Managing Director
East European Gas Analysis
Malvern, Pennsylvania
USA
Russian gas exports in 2010s
1/2010 Laura Solanko
Senior Economist
Bank of Finland
Institute for Economies in Transition
(BOFIT)
Finland
Increasing energy efficiency is
vitally important for the
Russian economy
1/2010 Vadim Kononenko
Researcher
Affairs
Finland
Russia energy efficiency
initiatives - a window of
opportunity for the EU?
139
1/2010 Andres Mäe
Researcher
Estonian Foreign Policy Institute
Estonia
Vulnerability in interdependent
energy relations
1/2010 Simon Pirani
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
UK
Russian natural gas production
and exports - the outlook to
2020
1/2010 Danila Bochkarev
Associate
EastWest Institute
Belgium
Energy diversification towards
the East - strategic imperative
and operational response to the
uncertainty of energy demand
1/2010 Maija Hyypiä
Research Assistant
The Finnish Institute of
Finland
Nord Stream project – as seen
from the Swedish point of view
1/2010 Joanna Hyndle
Department for Ukraine, Belarus and
the Baltic States
Poland
Consequences of the
decommissioning of Lithuanian
nuclear power plant
Researcher on Jenny &
Antti Wihuri Foundation’s grant
Finland
Shale gas – a game changer in
the global energy play?
1/2010 Anna Kotsalo-Mustonen
Ph.D.(Econ.),
Co-founder of the foundation and
‘The BSAG way’ new ideas to
responsible of the commitment acquiring
rescue the Baltic Sea
Elävä Itämeri säätiö, known as ‘BSAG
foundation’
1/2010 Pertti Joenniemi
DIIS
Denmark
The EU strategy for the Baltic
Sea Region - a first step
1/2010 Timo Kuusakoski
President and CEO
Kuusakoski Oy
Finland
Baltic Sea Region, environment
and recycling
1/2010 Risto Nieminen
Distinguished Professor
COMP/Department of Applied Physics
Aalto University
School of Science and
Technology
Espoo
Finland
Nanotechnology on the northern
shores
1/2010 Boris Porfiriev
Dr., Prof., Head of Laboratory
Russia
Economic crisis in Russia specificity of management policy
and lessons for economic policy
making
140
1/2010 Jon Hellevig
Managing Partner
Moscow-based Hellevig, Klein and
Usov, attorneys at law, and
Avenir Group accounting and
consulting firm
Russia
Professor
1/2010
Aleksei Bykov and
Svetlana Vertai
Doctorate student
Republic of Belarus
Russia’s social model of
bureaucracy
Challenges and prospects in
economic use of local natural
resources in Belarus
Dr., University Lecturer
Faculty of Social Sciences
Chairman of the NRF Steering
Committee
Finland
Thematic network on geopolitics
and security
6/2009 Sergei Sidorski
Prime Minister
Belarus
Belarus is open for co-operation
6/2009 Imants Lieģis
Minister of Defence
Latvia
A Latvian view on regional
security challenges
6/2009 Päivi Lipponen
Ph.D., Member of Parliament
Finland
Us and them
6/2009 Valery Shlyamin
Doctor of Economics
Trade Representative of the Russian
Federation in Finland
Russia
Place and role of the RussianFinnish economic cooperation in
6/2009 Merja Hannus
Secretary-general
Finland-Russia-Society
Finland
Participation of NGOs in the
Baltic Sea area cooperation
6/2009 Nils Ušakovs
Chairman
Riga City Council
Latvia
Riga nowadays
6/2009 Edgar Savisaar
Mayor of Tallinn
Estonia
Not the western or eastern, but
the Baltic Sea
6/2009 Seppo Miettinen
Mayor of Lappeenranta
Finland
From Saimaa to continental
Europe
6/2009 Eva Nypelius
Mayor of Gotland
Sweden
Gotland – pearl of the Baltic!
6/2009 Mikhail Oseevskiy
Vice Governor, St. Petersburg
Russia
St. Petersburg – the centre of
innovative development of
Russian Federation
141
6/2009 Peeter Kross
6/2009
Olga Shumylo and Jakub
Parusinski
PhD, Rector
Estonian Business School
Estonia
Director
International Centre for Policy Studies,
Kyiv
Ukraine
Expert
International Centre for Policy Studies,
Kyiv
Ukraine
Challenges for Estonian higher
education 1991–2020
The Eastern Partnership and
Ukraine – plus or minus?
Commodore (ret)
Finland
Russian oil on the Baltic Sea
6/2009 Jakub M. Godzimirski
Centre for Russian and Eurasian
Studies
NUPI
Norway
The role of the Arctic in Russian
energy strategy in Europe
6/2009 Bartosz Cichocki
Analyst
National Security Bureau of Poland
Poland
Prospects and consequences of
START follow-on treaty
6/2009 Andres Hunt
Vice Chairman of the Management
Board
AS Tallink Grupp
Estonia
Travelling by sea has a bright
future
6/2009 Pekko Kohonen
Development Director,
International Business Development
Lassila & Tikanoja plc
Finland
Russia takes action towards
ecological future
6/2009 Ralf Wiegert
Dr., Senior Economist
IHS Global Insight
Germany
The Baltic recovery – anything
else but a long hard slog?
6/2009 Peter Zashev
Dr.
Emerging Markets Research Group
Sciences
Finland
Building innovation economy in
Russia – big ambitions are build
by small steps
Belarus
Belarus and its economic
relations with the countries in
6/2009 Georgy Dykhanov
General Director
Kaliningrad Consulting Centre
Business-Expert
Russia
Kaliningrad – unsustainable
economy (was growing better
and now is decreasing faster)
142
6/2009 Volkmar Wulf
Europa Consultant
Langeneslbold / Kaliningrad
Germany / Russia
Current economy of Kaliningrad
and the situation of energy
demand
5/2009 Matti Vanhanen
Prime Minister
Finland
Baltic Sea cooperation – from
strategies to results
5/2009 Laine Jänes
Minister of Culture
Estonia
The Baltic Sea region at the
crossroads of culture and
economy
5/2009 Sinikka Hurskainen
Chair of the Sub-Committee on Belarus
of the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe
Member of the Parliament of Finland
Chair of the Council of Europe Finnish
delegation
Belarus on the road towards the
Council of Europe
5/2009 Mikhail Dmitriev
President
The Center for Strategic Research
Russia
Russia’s challenges in the global
crisis
5/2009 Kimmo Lundén
Journalist Fellow 2008-2009
Reuters Institute for the Study of
Journalism, University of Oxford
Economic journalist, M.Sc.
Kauppalehti,
Finnish Business Daily
Finland
The death of print? The
challenges and opportunities
facing the print media on the
web
5/2009 Ulla Tapaninen
Professor
University of Turku
Kotka Maritime Research Centre
Finland
Environmental regulations are a
challenge for the shipping
industry
5/2009 Stepan Sulakshin
Professor, Director
Governance and Problem Analysis
Center (GAPAC), Moscow
Russia
A view on the world economic
crisis
5/2009 Ionut Purica
Dr., Senior Researcher
Romanian Academy
Romania
Expectations on energy and
climate change
5/2009 René Nyberg
CEO, Ambassador (ret)
East Office of Finnish Industries
Finland
Transport of oil and gas – safety
and security of the Baltic Sea
5/2009 Łukasz Antas
Analyst
German Department
Poland
Nord Stream – how feasible is
the project?
143
5/2009 Edward Hunter Christie
Economist
The Vienna Institute for International
Economic Studies (wiiw)
The battle of Nord Stream
5/2009 Jukka Nurminen
Underwater photographer
Managing director
Abyss Art Oy
Finland
The Baltic Sea – a vibrant
ecosystem in peril
5/2009 Nils Wang
Rear Admiral
Admiral Danish Fleet
Denmark
Climate change and Arctic
security
5/2009 Clive Archer
Emeritus Professor
Manchester European Research
Institute
Manchester Metropolitan University
England
Arctic security – zero sum or
working together?
5/2009 Lotta Numminen
Lotta Numminen
Researcher
Affairs
Finland
Renewed governance is the key
for the future of the Arctic
5/2009
Olga Kryshtanovskaya
and Stephen White
Director
The Elites Department of the Institute
of Sociology
The Russian Academy of Sciences in
Moscow, Russia
After Pikalevo
James Bryce Professor of Politics
University of Glasgow
The United Kingdom
Dr.
Latvia
Ph.D.
Latvia
Latvia’s fiscal system – the need
for new approaches
5/2009 Stephen Fortescue
Associate Professor in the School of
Social Sciences & International Studies
University of New South Wales
Australia
The crisis in Russia and the
oligarchs
5/2009 Irina Kobrinskaya
Leading research fellow
IMEMO
Russian Academy of Science
Russia
BMD-Day for global security –
new opportunities – old
uncertainties
5/2009
Alexander Gaponenko
and Michael Rodin
144
5/2009 Jukka-Pekka Bergman
Director, Professor
Northern Dimension Research Centre
Do we have enough university
Lappeenranta University of Technology collaboration?
Finland
5/2009 Måns Nilsson
Associate Professor,
Stockholm Environment Institute
Sweden
Towards a European ecoefficient economy
5/2009 Miina Mäki
Project Manager / Marine Biologist
Clean Baltic Sea Project
Finland
Innovative thinking on
environmental issues – the
Baltic Sea is in urgent need for
protection
5/2009 Toni Ahlqvist
Senior Research Scientist, PhD
VTT Technical Research Centre
Finland
Towards understanding of
spatial and temporal
differentiation of innovation
activities in Baltic Sea region
5/2009 Irina Dezhina
Head of Division
Russian Academy of Sciences.
Russia
Innovation policy in Russia
during the economic crisis
5/2009 Tuomo Uotila
D.Sc. (Tech.), Senior Researcher
Lappeenranta University of Technology Challenges and new directions
Lahti School of Innovation
for Finnish innovation policy
Finland
5/2009 Anatoly Zhuplev
Professor
Loyola Marymount University Los
Angeles, California
U.S.A.
Small business in Russia –
trends and outlook
5/2009 Maksim Salahub
Partner
Sorainen
Belarus
Recent trends in M&A and
privatization in Belarus
4/2009 Mariann Fischer Boel
Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural The future challenges of
Development
agriculture in the Baltic Sea
European Commission
region
4/2009 Henna Virkkunen
Minister of Education and Science
Finland
Aspects of sustainable
development in education in the
Baltic Sea region
4/2009 Rasa Juknevičienė
Minister of National Defence
Lithuania
Baltic Sea region security – a
view from Lithuania
4/2009 Markku Laukkanen
Chairman of the Karelian League
Finland
Regional cooperation in the
Baltic Sea area – the potential
of Karelia
145
4/2009 Mats Hellström
Former Governor of the Province of
Stockholm
Former Ambassador to Germany
Former Minister of Nordic and
European Affairs of Sweden
Sweden
Storm over the Baltic Sea – is
innovation a safe haven?
4/2009 Raimo Valo
CEO
OAO Swedbank
Russia
Global financial crisis and the
Russian banking system
4/2009 Ingrida Lace
Director
Communication and International
Affairs
Latvenergo AS
Latvia
Future international challenges
of Latvenergo Group
Ph.D, Professor
Rector of Saint-Petersburg State
University of Economics and Finance
Russian Federation
Igor Maksimtsev and
4/2009
Sofia Rekord
Ph.D, Assistant Professor,
Chair of International Economic
Relations
Saint-Petersburg State University of
Russian Federation
Industrial-innovative networks
as an opportunity to raise
productivity of the Russian
North-west
4/2009 Kari Kaunismaa
Doctor of Social Sciences, Headmaster
Vista School, Paimio
Finland
From the red star to the doubleheaded eagle
4/2009 Vladimir Shimov
Rector
Republic of Belarus
Republic of Belarus – ways of
economic stabilization in the
context of the world financial
and economic crisis
4/2009 Kiryl Apanasevich
Partner at Sorainen Law Firm
Belarus
Belarusian anticrisis program –
pragmatic conservatism or
market reforms
4/2009 Terhi Suominen
Secretary General
Atlantic Council of Finland
Finland
NATO in Finland – Finland in
NATO?
4/2009 Marcel de Haas
Marcel de Haas
Lieutenant Colonel
Netherlands Institute of
International Relations Clingendael
The Netherlands
Russia’s Arctic strategy –
challenge to Western energy
security
146
4/2009 Margarete Klein
4/2009
Timo Koivurova and
Ismo Pölönen
Researcher
The German Institute for International
and Security Affairs (SWP)
Germany
Research Professor
Northern Institute for Environmental
and Minority Law
Arctic Centre
Finland
A new pan-European security
regime?
The Baltic Sea gas pipeline – can
we manage it sustainably?
Senior Researcher
Environmental Law
University of Joensuu
Finland
4/2009
Hans-Robert Metelmann
and Peter Frank
Chairman
ScanBalt
General Secretary
ScanBalt
EU kicks the ball to ScanBalt
BioRegion – The green valley,
the health region
Executive Director
Baltic Sea 2020
4/2009
Conrad Stralka and
Katarina Veem
Sustainable management of the
Baltic Sea
Programme Director
Baltic Sea 2020
4/2009 Anna Korppoo
Senior Researcher
Affairs
Finland
Russia and climate – on the road
to Copenhagen
Commercial Attaché of Lithuania in
Sweden
Lithuania
Lithuania – demanded synergy
between economic promotion and
development
4/2009 Petri Leino
Team Leader
Arctic Oil and Gas Project
Finpro, Murmansk
Finland
Opportunities for foreign
companies in Kola Peninsula
4/2009 Thomas Johansson
Team Director
The Sida Baltic Sea Unit
Sweden
Time for the next level of
cooperation around the Baltic
Sea
4/2009 Timo Koponen
Director
Finnode Russia
The Finnish Innovation Center in
Russia
Opportunities of Finland in
Russian innovation environment
147
4/2009
Kalman Kalotay and
Sergey Filippov
and Development Switzerland
United Nations University (UNUMERIT)
The Netherlands
The global crisis and FDI in
new Europe
4/2009 Risto Venermo
Leader, Partner
Russia - Nordic Desk
Ernst & Young Oy
Finland
Acquisition opportunities in
adversity – but don't be late
4/2009 Ville Korpela
Managing Director
Voskhod Consulting
Reliable intelligence and due
diligence are keys to success in
turbulent M&A market in
Russia
4/2009 Joanna Grudzińska
Polish Candidate for the European
Parliament 2009
Poland
Role of young people from Baltic
Sea Region in rising its potential
4/2009 Silvia Magnoni
Project Manager for International
Affairs
Baltic Sea Solutions (DK), Lolland
CTF concept developer and strategic
partner to Lolland Municipality
Denmark
So far (away), so good – when
peripheral communities lead the
way
4/2009 Arno Tanner
Population Studies
University of Helsinki and
Political Science
Finland
Human migration to and in the
Baltic Rim – past, present and
future
4/2009 Anna B. Kisiel-Łowczyc
Professor
University of Gdańsk
Poland
Poland's trade in the BSR after
the EU enlargement
4/2009 Ulla Nygrén
Director
Library and Information Services
Finland
The benefit of library and
information services to the
competitiveness of a university
3/2009 Jan Fischer
Prime Minister
The Czech Republic
A strategic partnership with
Russia remains our goal
3/2009 Astrid Thors
Minister of Migration and European
Affairs
Finland
The Baltic Sea is to remain a
safe and attractive place
3/2009 Henrik Lax
Finland
The Baltic Sea Region – A
bridge between EU and Russia?
– EU energy strategy and the
Nord Stream gas pipeline
148
3/2009 Janina Andersson
Member of the Finnish Parliament (the
Greens)
Finland
The Baltic Sea needs reform of
European Union agricultural
subsidies
3/2009 Juhani Kaskeala
Commander of the Finnish Defence
Forces
Finland
International sea surveillance
co-operation in the Baltic Sea
region
Professor
Strategic Studies Institute
US Army War College
USA
The future of Russia-US
relations
3/2009 Ilkka Laitinen
Executive Director
Frontex
The Baltic Sea – model for well
functioning cooperation and
simultaneously a challenge from
the Frontex’ point of view
3/2009 Vladimir Mau
Rector
Academy of National Economy under
the Government of the Russian
Federation
Russia
Crisis modernisation ― lessons
of the past and tasks for the
future
3/2009 Erkki Hämäläinen
Detective Chief Superintendent
Licentiate of Laws
National Criminal Police
International branch
Finland
Security as a competitiveness
booster in the Baltic Sea Region
3/2009 Timo P. Nieminen
Mayor
The City of Tampere
Finland
Involvement of the City of
Tampere in the Baltic Sea
cooperation
3/2009 Vasily Osipov
The Head of Vyborg City
Administration
Vyborg
Russia
Vyborg Industrial Park
3/2009 Arno Miettinen
Mayor
Rauma
Finland
Rauma - Unesco world heritage
town
3/2009 Solomon Ginzburg
Deputy Head of the Committee for
International and lnterregional
Relations and Regulations
Kaliningrad Regional Duma,
Director of the Fund socio-economic
and political studies "Regional Strategy"
Russia
Five years in the European
Union
3/2009 Maxim Shirokov
General Director
Ust-Luga Company, JSC
Russia
Ust-Luga Sea Merchant port –
a strategic port of Russia
149
3/2009 Alexei Moisseev
Head of Fixed Income Research
Chief Economist for Renaissance
Capital
Russia
Russia: the loss of reserves and
inflationary consequences of
devaluation – the myth and the
reality
3/2009 Natalia Orlova
Chief Economist
Alfa Bank
Russia
The second wave of the banking
crisis – to be or not to be?
3/2009 Timo Vihavainen
Professor
Renvall Institute
Finland
Russia on the Baltic
3/2009 Andrei P. Tsygankov
Professor at Departments of
International Relations and Political
Science
San Francisco State University
USA
The post-western world –
implications for Russia and the
West
3/2009 Hans Brask
Director
Denmark
Green valley on top of Europe –
new and strong initiative can
boost energy co-operation in the
Baltic Sea Region
3/2009 Lars-Christer Lundin
Professor of hydrology
Chair
Baltic University Programme
Uppsala University
Sweden
The Baltic University – a
network for sustainable
development
3/2009 Jouko Rautava
Economist
Bank of Finland
Finland
Times are also hard for Russia
forecasters
3/2009 Philip Hanson
Associate Fellow,
Chatham House
London
The United Kingdom
Russia’s crisis budget
3/2009 Anu Mai Kõll
Professor of Baltic History
Centre for Baltic and East European
Studies
Södertörns högskola
Sweden
The history of the Baltic States
– a minefield
3/2009 Aarno Kotilainen
Dr., Research Professor
Geological Survey of Finland
Coordinator of the BONUS INFLOW
-project
Finland
Look back – and learn
150
3/2009 Pami Aalto
Jean Monnet Professor
Director
Jean Monnet European Centre of
Excellence
Finland
3/2009 Aki Koponen
Dr., Director
Institute for Competition Policy Studies State enterprises are still a
problem for common markets
Finland
2/2009 Andrius Kubilius
Prime Minister
Lithuania
Lithuania in the Baltic Sea
region – a common destiny and
shared responsibility
2/2009 Antonio Tajani
Vice-President, Commissioner for
Transport
European Commission
Future challenges of transport in
2/2009 Paavo Väyrynen
Dr, Minister for Foreign Trade and
Development
Finland
Neighbouring area cooperation
and Baltic Sea Strategy of the
EU – complementary
instruments to support
cooperation (and sustainable
development) in the Baltic Sea
Region
2/2009 Jānis Sārts
State Secretary of Ministry of Defence
Latvia
The Arctic region – shift in
geopolitics?
2/2009 Martin Erdmann
Ambassador
Assistant Secretary General for
Political Affairs and Security Policy
A vital alliance turns 60
Commodore (ret)
Finland
Baltic Sea gas pipeline in
Finland's economic zone –
project raises many questions
2/2009 Jaakko Smolander
Vice Admiral (ret)
Finnish Border Guard: Assistant Chief
1998-2004 and Chief 2004-2008
Finland
Finland is developing the
European Union's border
security
2/2009 Hanna Foltyn – Kubicka
Poland
Do we really need Nord Stream?
2/2009 Reino Paasilinna
Dr, Member of the European
Parliament
Vice-Chair of the European Parliament
delegation to the EU-Russia
Parliamentary Cooperation Committee
(PCC)
Finland
The EU and Russia
151
Policy platforms for
regionalizing EU-Russia energy
relations
2/2009 Aloyzas Sakalas
Lithuania
The EU's relations with Belarus
– how to get things moving?
2/2009 Ville Niinistö
MP, Finnish Parliament
Vice-Chair of the Green Parliamentary
Group
Chair of the Committee for Citizen and
Consumer Rights in the Nordic Council
Towards a sustainable and
secure energy policy in the Baltic
Sea region
2/2009 Bernhard Vogel
Dr, Chairman
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Germany
The Baltic Sea region is crucial
to the Konrad-AdenauerFoundation
2/2009 Michael Butler
Chargé d’Affaires
US Embassy Helsinki
Climate crisis requires regional
collaboration
2/2009 Andres Lipstok
Governor of Eesti Pank
Estonia
Estonian economy in
anticipation of the euro
2/2009 Thomas Wilhelmsson
Rector
Finland
The University of Helsinki as an
engine of Baltic sea research
2/2009 Konstantin Khudoley
Professor and Dean
Russia
Russia-EU relations
2/2009 Arne Grove
Nordic Council of Ministers, Director
of the NCM Information office in
Kaliningrad
Honorary consul of Denmark in
Kaliningrad
Energy cooperation within the
Baltic Sea Region. A
Kaliningrad perspective.
2/2009 Lúcio Vinhas de Souza
Official Responsible for Russia
Directorate General for Economic and
Financial Affairs (DG-ECFIN)
European Commission
Effects of financial and
economic instability in Russia
2/2009 Erik W Helin
CEO
Specta / VolgaStrap Group
Russia
Member of the Executive Board
Association of European Business,
Moscow, Russia
Managing Business in today’s
crises environment in Russia vs
1998 – a view from the field
2/2009 Miklos Losoncz
Jean Monnet Professor at Széchenyi
István University
Győr, Hungary
Research Director at GKI Economic
Research Co., Budapest
Some institutional factors of
securing Europe’s supply of
natural gas
152
2/2009
Alexey Ignatiev and
Stephen Dewar
Program and Development Director
Kaliningrad Regional Economic
Development Agency
Russia
Independent economic consultant
Ireland
2/2009 Hanna Ojanen
2/2009
Erika Sumilo and
Madara Apsalone
Dr, Programme Director
Affairs
Finland
Professor
Researcher
The South-Eastern Baltic
Region as a model for European
integration and true partnership
What role for the EU in Finnish
security policy?
The impact of international
financial crisis on capital
migration into Latvia
Doctor
Finland
From periphery to world politics
– the changing geo-politics of
the North
2/2009 Chloé Le Coq
Assistant professor
Economics
Russian gas supply and common
energy policy
2/2009 Johanna Särkijärvi
Project Manager
University of Turku
Finland
Growing volumes of containers
and other unitised cargo go
hand-in-hand with the
concentration of maritime
transport in major ports
2/2009 Sergey Volchenkov
PhD of Economics
Associate, Avanko Capital
St. Petersburg, Russia
Specific features of inbound
cross-border deals on the Russian
M&A mid-market
Alexander Gaponenko
2/2009
and Michael Rodin
Dr.E
Latvia
Ph.D.
International University Audentes
Estonia
System crisis of the Latvian
society – the reasons, scenarios
of development, possibility of
overcoming
2/2009 Jarna Heinonen
Professor, Director
TSE Entre
Entrepreneurship and the Baltic
Rim
1/2009 Siim Kallas
Vice-President for Administrative
Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud
European Commission
Fighting fraud and corruption –
the EU experience
153
1/2009 Alexander Stubb
Finland
Baltic Sea Cooperation towards
2020 – serious challenges but
bright opportunities
1/2009 Ville Itälä
Member
European Parliament
Finland
Baltic Sea maintenance and
budgetary control
1/2009 Antti Kaikkonen
Member of Parliament and vice
chairman of the Grand Committee,
Finland
Member of the Baltic Sea
Parliamentary Conference
Rapporteur of the Council of Europe on
the economic potential of the Baltic Sea
Baltic cooperation needs
freshening
1/2009 Thomas Mirow
President
The European Bank forReconstruction
and Development
European cooperation crucial as
banking sector in the East has to
weather global crisis
1/2009 Paul Vandoren
Deputy Head
Delegation of the European
Commission to Russia
Regional cooperation that works
– the EU's Northern Dimension
Policy
1/2009 Ari Korhonen
Secretary General
The Finnish Social Democratic Party
Finland
Against the financial recession
with Baltic cooperation
1/2009 Wojciech Kwaśniak
Advisor of the President
The National Bank of Poland
Poland
The impact of the international
financial crisis on the stability of
banking systems in Central and
Eastern European countries
Oleg N. Misko and
1/2009
Sergei F. Sutyrin
City Agency for Industrial Investments
Government of St. Petersburg
Professor, Head
World Economy Department /
International Banking Institute
St. Petersburg's commercial real
estate market – some recent
trends
1/2009 Perttu Vartiainen
Rector and Professor of Human
Geography
University of Joensuu
Finland
University of Joensuu as an
active partner in cross-border
cooperation in Northwest Russia
1/2009 Jonathan Stern
Director of Gas Research
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
The United Kingdom
The January 2009 RussiaUkraine crisis and the
imperative of bypass pipelines
154
1/2009 Leonid Grigoriev
President
Institute for Energy and Finance,
Moscow
Russia
Forum of gas exporters – design
1/2009 Kari Liuhto
Professor, Director
Finland
Ukraine’s energy lesson to the
EU
Acting Head
Baltic 21 Secretariat
1/2009
Mia Crawford and Risto
Veivo
Adviser to Deputy Mayor
City of Turku
Head of Baltic 21 Secretariat 20062008
Finland
Living up to our promises –
fostering a sustainable Baltic
Sea Region
1/2009 Chris Weafer
Chief Strategist
Bank Uralsib
Russia
GAS-OPEC – cooperation or
confrontation?
1/2009 Hanna Smith
Researcher
Finland
Russia and the European Union
– partners in energy cooperation
or rivals in “Great Game”
confrontation?
1/2009 Raivo Vare
Vice-Chairman of the Estonian
Cooperation Assembly
Former Minister of State and Minister
of Transport and Communications
Estonia
EU – Russia – the Baltic angle
Project Coordinator
Eurasia Energy Group
Finland
Plus ça Change – infrastructure
& energy transit to Europe
1/2009 Laura J. Rantanen
Journalist
Vihreä Lanka, Green Weekly
newspaper
Finland
Russia is digging its own grave
by disturbing gas supplies to
Europe
1/2009 Richard Sakwa
Professor of Russian and European
Politics
University of Kent at Canterbury
The United Kingdom
The economic crisis and regime
stability in Russia
1/2009 Peter Coachman
Director of Russian Operations
Technopolis
Russia
High-tech response to modern
challenges and new
opportunities
155
1/2009 Jukka Mallinen
Translator, writer
Chairman
Finnish PEN
Finland
1/2009 Vesa Harmaakorpi
Professor
Lahti School of Innovation
Sustainable innovation – what
Lappeenranta University of Technology is it?
Finland
1/2009 Wladimir Andreff
Professor Emeritus at the University
Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
Is Russian sports economy
Honorary President of the International
performing well?
Association of Sport Economists
France
1/2009 Viktor Trasberg
Associate Professor
Administration
Head of Centre for Baltic Studies
University of Tartu
Estonia
1/2009
1/2009
The economy crisis is the moment
of truth for Russia
Baltic States competitive
position in the New Century
Vyacheslav
Dombrovsky
in Riga and Baltic International
Centre for Economic Policy Studies
Latvia
Can we revive a ‘Baltic Tiger’?
Alexey
Prazdnichnykh
Principal
Bauman Innovation
Associate Professor
The Academy of National Economy
under the Government of Russian
Federation
Russia
Business life in a perfect Storm – the
first results of a monthly monitoring
of the effect produced by the
economic crisis on small and medium
size enterprises (SMEs) in Russia
Research Fellow
1/2009
Peeter Vahtra and
Stefan Ehrstedt
6/2008
Janez Potočnik
European Commissioner for Science
and Research
BONUS project – Baltic countries
lead research for better use of the
Baltic Sea
6/2008
Stefan Wallin
Minister of Culture and Sport
Finland
Mare nostrum – Sea of Culture
Senior Research Associate
Finland
156
Russia’s energy supplies and the
Baltic Sea Region
Bogdan Klich
Minister of National Defence
Poland
Security challenges in the Baltic Sea
Region
Sven Mikser
Chairman of the Foreign
Affairs Committee
Riigikogu - The Parliament
of Estonia
Estonia
Return of the cold war – mis-shapes
and mirror images
Wilfried Grolig
Ambassador of the Federal
Republic of Germany in Finland
Germany and the Baltic Sea
cooperation – current common
challenges and the Baltic Sea
Strategy of the European Union
Igor Yurgens
Chairman of the Management Board
Institute of Contemporary
Development
Russia
Foreign investment in the strategic
sector of the Russian economy –
fundamentals and expectations
Bo Österlund
Commodore
Finland
Significance of Russia’s Baltic fleet
growing. Will nuclear weapons
return to the Baltic Sea?
Pekka Ruola
Municipal Councillor
Vice Chairman of the Turku 2011
Foundation
Chairman of the Turku Cultural
Board
Finland
Turku and Tallinn – work together
for a better Baltic Sea environment
Torsten Wöllert
Deputy Head of Unit at the
Directorate-General of External
Relations
European Commission
Bridge over troubled waters?
Managing EU-Russia energy
relations
Agata ŁoskotStrachota
Energy Policy Specialist
Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich/Centre
for Eastern Studies
Poland
The Baltic Sea as the most important
corridor for Russia’s oil exports
Dan Steinbock
Dr, Research Director of
India, China and America
Institute
Eclipse of export-led growth?
6/2008
Sergey M.
Drobyshevsky
Ph.D., Head
Macroeconomics and Finance Division
Institute for the Economy in
Rouble devaluation – pros et contras
Transition
Russia
6/2008
Lars Tranberg
Rasmussen
Emerging Markets Analyst
Danske Macro Research
Danske Bank
Denmark
6/2008
6/2008
6/2008
6/2008
6/2008
6/2008
6/2008
6/2008
6/2008
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How to restore confidence and allow
the rouble to weaken
Lassi Linnanen
Dr., Professor of Environmental
Management and Economics
Lappeenranta University of
Technology
Member of Board
Baltic Sea Action Group
Finland
Double environmental dividend –
combining actions against climate
change and pollution of the Baltic
Sea
Martti Lariola
Project Director
Clean Baltic Sea Poland
Finland
Reduction of nutrient discharges
will turn the trend towards a cleaner
Baltic Sea
6/2008
Antti Saurama
Head of Research and Consulting
Services Unit
University of Turku
Finland
Key figures on maritime transports
and cargoes handled in the Baltic
Sea ports in 2007, compiled by the
Baltic Port List
6/2008
Kirsi-Maarit
Poljatschenko
M.A.
Finland
Containerized cargo market of the
Baltic Sea and future of Mother
Russia
6/2008
Wolfram Schrettl
Department of Economics
Director of Economics
Institute for East European Studies
Free University Berlin
Germany
EU and Russia – are there limits to
“common values”?
6/2008
Urmas Varblane
Professor of International Economy
University of Tartu
Estonia
Why are economies of Estonia and
Iceland different?
Filip Hamro-Drotz
Communications Coordinator
Confederation of Finnish
Industries EK
Finland
Priorities of business for the EU’s
Baltic Sea Strategy
6/2008
6/2008
6/2008
Associate Professor
Estonia
6/2008
Rünno Lumiste,
Robert Pefferly and
Alari Purju
Associate Professor
Estonia
Professor
Estonia
158
Estonia’s economic development –
trends, practices and sources
Jacek Batóg
Doctor
Faculty of Economics and
Management
University of Szczecin
Poland
Virtual Baltic Development Agency
– a network for international links
and investment spillovers in BSR
6/2008
Mika Widgrén
Professor
Vice-Director
Public Choice Research Centre
Finland
Paul Krugman and the Baltic Rim
5/2008
José Manuel Durão
Barroso
President of the European
Commission
Region
5/2008
Paula Lehtomäki
Minister of the Environment
Finland
Cleaner, safer and brighter future of
the Baltic Sea
5/2008
Jaak Aaviksoo
Minister of Defence
Estonia
Events in Georgia provoke
discussions on security in good, old,
peaceful Europe
Siiri Oviir
Member
European Parliament
Estonia
Gas pipeline to the Baltic Sea –
should it come in a civilized way or
under the dictate of the big and the
powerful?
5/2008
Artis Pabriks
Ex-foreign minister of Latvia
(2004-2007)
Professor in
Vidzeme University College
Latvia
Baltic security reflections in the
aftermath of the Russian-Georgian
conflict
5/2008
Efthimios E.
Mitropoulos
Secretary-General
International Maritime Organization
Busy Baltic to benefit from global
pollution measures
5/2008
Jari Luoto
Ambassador for
Baltic Sea Issues
Finland
EU focuses on the Baltic Sea
5/2008
André Mernier
Secretary General
Energy Charter Secretariat
A role for the Energy Charter in a
new Russia-EU Partnership
Agreement
5/2008
Timo Rajala
President, CEO
Pohjolan Voima
Finland
Finland is facing major energy
decisions
5/2008
Karlis Mikelsons
President, CEO
Latvenergo AS
Latvia
Environmentally friendly for
sustainable growth
6/2008
5/2008
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5/2008
Reinier Zwitserloot
Chairman of the Board of
Executive Directors
Wintershall Holding AG
Germany
5/2008
Viktoras
Valentukevicius
General Manager
AB Lietuvos Dujos
Lithuania
Current and future activities of
Lietuvos Dujos AB
5/2008
Seppo Remes
Member of Board,
the Federal Grid Company, Russia
Member of Board,
RusHydro, Russia
Russian gas can unite Europe – if
we allow it
5/2008
Aleksandra
Mierzyńska –
Krzysztof Parkoła
Financial Analyst
PGNiG SA
Poland
PGNiG – trying to be one step
further
5/2008
Tapio Reponen
Rector
Finland
Profiling as a key success factor in
modern university strategies
Markus Ederer
Head,
Policy Planning
Germany
Germany and the Baltic Sea Region
– challenges and opportunities for
cooperation on energy security
Jyrki Terva
Consul for Trade, Economy and
Cooperation with
Neighbouring Regions
Consulate General of Finland
in Saint-Petersburg
Russia’s ability to use its energy
might
5/2008
Tomasz Zadroga
President and CEO
PGE
Polska Grupa Energetyczna S.A.
Poland
Activities of the Polish Energy
Group
5/2008
Yury S. Kadzhoyan
Director General
OOO LUKOIL-Kaliningradmorneft
Russia
D-6 development – dialogue with
the local communities and the
government
Janek Parkman
Viru Keemia Grupp AS
Estonia
Estonian oil shale sector undergoing
changes
Christian Lund
Public Affairs Manager,
Energy & Retail Europe
StatoilHydro ASA
Norway
Energizing opportunities
5/2008
5/2008
5/2008
5/2008
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Nord Stream – making more
European energy solidarity possible
5/2008
Erkki Kotiranta
Neste Shipping Oy
Vice President
Finland
The Russian Arctic is turning into
an important energy supply route to
Europe alongside the Baltic Sea
5/2008
Jyrki Vähätalo
Senior Maritime Inspector
Finnish Maritime Administration
Finland
Safe and reliable global maritime
transport of dangerous chemical
cargo via the Baltic Sea
5/2008
Peter F. Johnston
Strategic Analyst
Defence Research and Development
Canada –
Centre for Operational Research and
Analysis
Canada
Al Qaeda’s threat to oil and gas
assets in the Baltic Region
5/2008
Arild Moe – Lars
Rowe
Fridtjof Nansen Institute
Norway
Russian shipbuilding – is a rapid
turnaround possible?
Urpo Kivikari
Former Director and Professor
Emeritus
Finland
Institute’s turning points and
highlights
5/2008
Simon-Erik Ollus
Adviser and Economist
The East Office of
Finnish Industries
Finland
The global financial turbulence and
Russia
5/2008
Rainer Nõlvak
Estonian Nature Fund
Estonia
From Russia, with gas
5/2008
Kari Liuhto
Professor, Director
Finland
EU's growing energy import
dependency a major risk
4/2008
László Kovács
EU Commissioner for Taxation and
Customs Union
EU-Russia customs cooperation −
solving border congestion
4/2008
Kaspars Gerhards
Minister of Economics
Latvia
Economy of Latvia − on the path to
stabilization
4/2008
Algirdas
Butkevičius
Minister of Transport and
Communications
Lithuania
Lithuanian transport sector –
perspectives for development
4/2008
Halldór Ásgrímsson
Secretary General of the Nordic
Council of Ministers
Globalisation and the Baltic Sea
Region
Pekka Haavisto
and former Minister of Environment
Finland
Baltic Sea as an energy route
5/2008
4/2008
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Kimmo Kiljunen
Doctor, Member of Parliament
Finland
Russian politics
Reijo Karhinen
Executive Chairman
OP-Pohjola Group
Finland
OP-Pohjola Group – appraising
expansion opportunities in the
Baltic countries
Anders Paalzow
Rector
Stockholm School of Economics in
Riga
Latvia
Challenges facing the higher
education in the Baltic countries
Hanna Lehtinen
Head of the Unit for the Northern
Dimension
Finland
The EU strategy for the Baltic Sea
Region and its links to the Northern
Dimension
Fraser Cameron –
Aaron Matta
Director
EU Russia Centre in Brussels
Belgium – Researcher
European University Institute in
Florence
Italy
Prospects for EU-Russia relations
Kalle Euro
Director of Business Development
City of Turku
Director
Turku Region Development Centre
Finland
Creative dissent will enhance Baltic
business
Ole Damsgaard
Director
Nordregio
Sweden
Disparities and potentials in the
BSR
Jarkko Heinonen
Assistant Manager, Economist
BCCA Office Representative
Finland
Cluster approach as a tool of
industrial policy in the Baltic Sea
Region
Harri Ekebom
Representative
Protection Fund for the Archipelago
Sea
Finland
Problems of the Archipelago Sea are
self-created
4/2008
Hanna Mäkinen
Project Planning Officer
Finland
Energy security and environment –
energy challenges in the European
Union
3/2008
Anders Fogh
Rasmussen
Prime Minister
Denmark
Energy challenges and opportunities
in the Baltic Sea Region
4/2008
4/2008
4/2008
4/2008
4/2008
4/2008
4/2008
4/2008
4/2008
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3/2008
Vladimír Špidla
EU Commissioner for Employment,
Social Affairs and Equal
Opportunities
Recent European Court of Justice
rulings highlight potential
complications for labour mobility,
but overall a mobile work force will
contribute to a more dynamic EU
economy
3/2008
Jan-Erik Enestam
Secretary General
The Nordic Council
Finland
Co-operation in the Baltic Sea
Region
Anu Vehviläinen
Transport Minister
The Ministry of Transport and
Communications
Finland
Logistics unites markets
3/2008
Andreas Carlgren
Minister for the Environment
Sweden
The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea
Region as a tool for implementing
the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action
Plan
3/2008
Anita Mäkinen
Head of Marine Programme, Dr.
WWF Finland
More maritime safety for the Baltic
Sea – what are the options?
Ma Keqing
Chinese Ambassador to Finland
China
Economic and trade cooperation
between China and Finland −
mutually beneficial and win-win
development
Merle Pajula
Ambassador of Estonia to
Helsinki
Estonia
Estonia – the country we are
building together
Tapani Erling
Director-General
The Finnish National Board
of Customs
Finland
Customs administrations and
economic crime
3/2008
Risto Ervelä –
Hannu Elo
Chairman of the Assembly
The Regional Council of
Southwest Finland
Finland –
Head of the International Affairs
The Regional Council of
Southwest Finland
Finland
Need for a Baltic Sea Region
strategy from the viewpoint of
Southwest Finland
3/2008
Aimo Ahti
Mayor
City of Kouvola
Finland
Innorail – facilitating the
renaissance of railways in Northern
Europe
3/2008
3/2008
3/2008
3/2008
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3/2008
Nikolai M.
Kropachev
Acting Rector, Professor
Russia
performance in the Baltic Sea Region
3/2008
Olli Manner
President, CEO
Elomatic
Finland
Baltic region strategy for the
technical consulting business?
Torbjörn Becker
Director
The Stockholm Institute of
Transition Economics at
the Stockholm School of
Economics
Sweden
Baltic Sea neighbors – time to
engage with Belarus
Matti Aura
Managing Director
Finnish Port Association
Finland
Is the heyday of the transit traffic
via Finnish ports to Russia over?
3/2008
Alfred Hecht
Associate Director, PhD, Dr. (h,c,)
Viessmann European Research
Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University
Canada
The ‘Baltic Main Street’ highway
proposal
3/2008
Elena G. Efimova
Associate Professor
Ports as gateways and hubs of
Baltic Sea Region
3/2008
Hans Brask
Director
Denmark
Visions for the future Baltic Sea
Region cooperation – an EU avantgarde in promoting the fifth freedom
of the internal market?
3/2008
Kari Liuhto
Director
Finland
The many challenges of the Baltic
Sea Region
2/2008
Ján Figel’
Education, Training, Culture
and Youth
Why we need to modernise
European universities
2/2008
Tarja Cronberg
Minister of Labour
Ministry of Employment and
the Economy
Finland
We need a Baltic Sea Stern Review
2/2008
Maciej Nowicki
Minister of Environment
Poland
Is Poland really the biggest polluter
of the Baltic Sea?
Saara Kankaanrinta
Co-founder of the Foundation for a
Living Baltic Sea /Baltic SeaAction
Group (BSAG)
Finland
Saving the Baltic Sea with publicprivate cooperation, resultorientated actions
3/2008
3/2008
2/2008
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2/2008
Aliaksandr
Milinkevich
Chairman
Movement for Freedom
Belarus
Belarus and Baltic Sea Region —
common interests and challenges
2/2008
Erkki Kotiranta
Vice President
Neste Shipping Ltd
Finland
Shipping of oil products in the
Baltic region
2/2008
Kari Raivio
Chancellor
Finland
University reform — a global
phenomenon
2/2008
Maria Tengroth
Policy Manager
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of
Southern Sweden
Sweden
Ranking of Swedish higher
education institutions
2/2008
Niina Nummela
Professor, International Business
Finland
Finnish SMEs in the Baltic Sea
Region — growth potential and
challenges
2/2008
Žaneta Ozoliņa
Professor
Latvia
Searching for a new leadership in the
Baltic Sea Region
2/2008
Tapio Välinoro
Executive Director
Regional Council of Kymenlaakso
Finland
The third stage of regional economy
— integration of the east and west
Alexei
Prazdnichnykh
Principal
Bauman Innovation
Associate Professor
Academy of National Economy under
the Government (Moscow)
Russia
Leningrad region — capitalizing
geographical advantage
Mika Akkanen
Manager of International Affairs
City of Turku
Finland
Today’s possibilities for city
twinning relationships in the Baltic
Sea Region
Vladimir Kuzin
Head
The strategic planning department of
socio-economic development of the
Kaliningrad region
Russia
The role of the special economic
zones in attracting foreign
investment to the Kaliningrad region
2/2008
Arto Luukkanen
Adjunct Professor of Russian Studies
Renvall Institute
Finland
Medvedev´s new agenda for Russia
— reforming a system that can not
be reformed?
1/2008
Andrus Ansip
Prime Minister
Estonia
Estonia’s development perspectives
2/2008
2/2008
2/2008
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1/2008
Joe Borg
European commissioner for Fisheries
and Maritime Affairs
A new European Policy: the
Integrated Maritime Policy, an
ocean of opportunity for Europe
1/2008
Yegor Gaidar
Director of the Institute for the
Economy in Transition
Former Prime Minister of Russia
Europe and Russia, new relations
1/2008
Jan Egeland
Director of the Norwegian Institute of
Affluent Baltic region must increase
Former UN Under-Secretary General its assistance
for Humanitarian Affairs
1/2008
Matti Halmesmäki
President and CEO, Kesko
Kesko – a retail specialist
1/2008
Hans Brask
Director, Baltic Development Forum,
Denmark
The State of the Region Report
1/2008
Timo Karttinen –
Pirja Heiskanen
Senior Vice President, Corporate
Development, Fortum Corporation –
Vice President Russian Generation
Business, Fortum Power and Heat
Market-based investment into
Russian power sector
1/2008
Tatiana Romanova
Dr., Associate Professor at the
Department of European Studies
School of International Relations of
Energy and transport into the
Northern Dimension?: Russian
perspectives
1/2008
Aku Sorainen
Managing Partner at Sorainen,
Finland
Managing a modern business law
firm through values in the Baltic
States
1/2008
Iwona Wiśniewska
Senior Researcher
Center for Eastern Studies, Poland
State corporations – state property
in de facto private hands
1/2008
Urpo Kivikari
Professor Emeritus, Pan-European
Institute, Turku School of Economics
EU and Russia as neighbours and
partners – the specific role of the
Baltic Sea Region
1/2008
Alari Purju
Professor, Estonian Business School,
Estonia
Transit trade through Estonia:
problems and developments
Tomasz Dolegowski
Associate professor, World Economy
Faculty, SGH - Warsaw School of
Economics, Poland
SGH – Warsaw School of
Economics and the Baltic Region
Samu Numminen
Project manager, Southwest Finland
Regional Environment Centre
Pro Saaristomeri Coastal Forum
Coastal management and regional
cooperation in saving the Baltic Sea
Wojtek Dorabialski
Adviser to the President
Office of Competition and Consumer
Protection, Poland
Can competition protection in
Poland become more effective?
1/2008
1/2008
1/2008
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1/2008
Kari Liuhto
Professor, Director, Pan-European
Future of the EU-Russia relations
6/2007
Ene Ergma
President, The Parliament of Estonia
The Baltic Sea Region: the region in
global competition
6/2007
Gediminas Kirkilas
Prime Minister, Lithuania
Think neighbourly, create value
added
6/2007
Benita FerreroWaldner
European Neighbourhood Policy
6/2007
Jyri Häkämies
Minister of Defence, Finland
Nordic-Baltic defence cooperation
6/2007
Christopher Beazley
A EU-Strategy for the Baltic Sea
region: making a success
of the 2004 enlargement
6/2007
Henrik Lax
Elections in Russia - what turn in
the relations to the EU?
6/2007
Pertti Salolainen
Minister, Member of the Parliament of
The Baltic Sea – beauty in serious
Finland, Chairman of the Foreign
danger
Affairs Committee
6/2007
Blanka Kalinova
Senior Economist
Investment Division, OECD
Investment climate in Russia: a
Russian paradox?
Seppo Remes
UES, Member of the Board
EOS Russia, Chairman of the Board
Russia
Russia forerunning EU in power
sector forum
6/2007
Kalman Kalotay
and Development
Switzerland
A Baltic perspective on OMV’s bid
for MOL
6/2007
Pertti Lintunen
Mayor, Town of Imatra
Imatra – a Finnish border town in
the economic region of St. Petersburg
6/2007
Marek Menkiszak
Head of the Russian Department
Poland
Russia's policy towards Central –
Eastern Europe after
the EU enlargement
6/2007
Yrjö Myllylä
An expert on regional foresight
Oy Aluekehitys RD
Russia tries to control the transport
routes of its own products itself
6/2007
Antoni Kukliński
Professor, Poland
Baltic Europe 2050 challenges of the
future, heritage of the past
6/2007
Pirjo Vuokko
Director, Adjunct Professor
TSE exe, Turku School of Economics
Management challenges - what is in
the air?
Günter Verheugen
Vice-President of the European
Commission and Commissioner for
Enterprise and Industry
Baltic Sea region – at the head of
the reform process
6/2007
5/2007
167
5/2007
Petras Vaitiekūnas
Lithuania
European solidarity is the best
investment into the future
5/2007
Ingibjörg Sólrún
Gísladóttir
Iceland
Iceland and her companies in the
Baltic Sea region
5/2007
Jaanus Tamkivi
Minister of the Environment
Estonia
Estonia protects the Baltic Sea
along with its neighbours
5/2007
Ojārs Kalniņš
Director, The Latvian Institute
A Baltic Sea Strategy – acting
regionally, thinking globally
5/2007
Jerzy Samborski
Executive Director, European
Enterprise Institute, Belgium
What Europe has done for
competition
5/2007
Urve Tiidus
Mayor of Kuressaare
Estonia
Islands are part of the main
5/2007
Eeva-Liisa
Poutanen
Director General , Finnish Institute of
Marine Research
The Baltic Sea – threats and
expectations
5/2007
Pauliina
Kainulainen
Doctor of Theology
How can we find the motivation
required to protect the Baltic Sea?
5/2007
Eero O. Kasanen
Rector, Helsinki School of Economics
HSE expanding operations in the
Eastern Baltic Sea Region
Paula Lindroos
Director, PhD, Centre for Continuing
Education, Åbo Akademi University,
Finland
5/2007
Senior Adviser to the Finnish Lead
Party for Baltic21 Education
Connecting competitiveness and
regional sustainable development
5/2007
Horst Brezinski
Professor, Dr., TU Bergakademie
Freiberg, Germany
The new law on special economic
zones (SEZ): A better catalyst for
the region of Kaliningrad ?
5/2007
Matti Nojonen
Post-doc researcher, Pan-European
Institute
China’s ’Go-abroad’ strategy and the
case of Baltic Sea region
5/2007
Matti Palo
Doctor, Independent scientist
High export duties for roundwood in
Russia?
5/2007
Atso Uusiaho
CEO, Ice Advisors Ltd
Increasing traffic in the Gulf of
Finland presents challenges for
winter navigation
5/2007
Bo Österlund
Commodore, Finland
Safe seaway connections are our life
blood
Stavros Dimas
European Commissioner for the
Environment
The European Union's role in
protecting the environment of the
Black Sea region
4/2007
168
4/2007
Ainārs Šlesers
Minister of Transport of the Republic
of Latvia
Latvia – transit land and
destination
4/2007
Piia-Noora Kauppi
(EPP-ED Group)
May the Baltic way be the
European way
4/2007
Antti Peltomäki
Deputy Director-General, Information
Society and Media DG, European
Commission
I regard myself as a son of the Baltic
Sea
4/2007
Yury Savenko
Head of the City of Kaliningrad,
Mayor of the City
Kaliningrad is the city to invest in
4/2007
Raimo Väyrynen
Director of the Finnish Institute of
The Baltic Sea in the new strategic
context
4/2007
Paavo Okko
Professor of Economics, Turku School
of Economics
The Baltic Sea Region as an arena
for income level convergence
4/2007
Hans Dalborg
Chairman, Nordea
Nordea plans for growth in the
Baltic Rim markets
4/2007
Hannu Penttilä
CEO of Stockmann Group, President
of the International Association of
Department Stores
Stockmann has succeeded in
internationalisation of its
department store operation
4/2007
Paavo Wihuri
Director of Maritime Safety and
Security, Finnish Maritime
Administration
Safety on the Baltic Sea and
protection of the marine
environment - risk anticipation
4/2007
Christian Ramberg
Managing Director, Port of Turku
Trends and challenges for ports in
4/2007
Harry Piela
Member of the Executive Committee,
Finnish-Lithuanian Trade Association
The changing role of the trade
association
4/2007
Veikko Kärnä
M. Sc. (Economics)
A new mesostructure for Russian
mining industry
4/2007
John JA Burke
Principal, European Institute of Law
and Finance
Corporate governance in Estonia:
Intact despite 2007 amendment to
Commercial Code
3/2007
Olli Rehn
Patience is virtue in EU-Russia
relations
3/2007
Juhan Parts
Minister of Economic Affairs and
Communications, Estonia
The future of Estonian economy and
economic policy
3/2007
Andrei Yeudachenka
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of
the Republic of Belarus
The role of Belarus in the Baltic Sea
region
3/2007
Alexander
Rumyantsev
Ambassador of Russia to Finland
Russian-Finnish neighbouring area
cooperation
169
3/2007
Satu Hassi
4 times Chernobyl on the shorelines
of the Baltic Sea
3/2007
Kurt Bodewig
Member of the German Bundestag,
Chairman of the Baltic Sea Forum
Metropolitan centres of the Baltic
region
3/2007
Jussi Pajunen
Lord Mayor of Helsinki
Helsinki and regional challenges in
3/2007
Valery Serdyukov
Governor of the Leningrad Region
The Leningrad region – is an
investment magnet
3/2007
Juhani Korpela
Former Secretary General of Finland’s
Ministry of Transport and
Communications, operates within the
context of TEDIM
Progress in logistics cooperation
between the European Union and
Russia
3/2007
Nina Oding
Leontif Centre, St Petersburg
Updating St. Petersburg economy:
new heights, old problems
3/2007
Tuomas Mikkola
Liaison Manager of Pilot Turku Ltd
The Turku region is a junction point
for Scandinavian and Baltic
transport – a bridgehead between
east and west
3/2007
Juha Kaskinen
Director, Dr. Soc. Sc. Finland Futures
Research Centre Turku School of
Economics
Climate change and futures of Baltic
Sea
3/2007
Magnus Ericsson
Chairman and founder Raw Materials
Group
Towards a Baltic mining cluster
3/2007
Christer Pursiainen
Senior Research Fellow Nordregio –
Nordic centre for Spatial Development
Stockholm
How to improve the EU’s economic
and trade strategies towards Russia?
3/2007
Valtteri Kaartemo
Research Associate, Pan-European
Institute
Beware: dragons out of cage
2/2007
Danuta Hübner
in Charge of Regional Policy
The Baltic Sea cooperation
2/2007
German Gref
Minister of Economic Development
and Trade, The Russian Federation
Russia’s role in the Baltic region
2/2007
Michal Sewerynski
Minister of Science and Higher
Education, Poland
Structural funds and perspectives
for Polish science
2/2007
Eija-Riitta Korhola
The Baltic Sea needs to be
politicized
2/2007
Uffe EllemannJensen
Chairman, Baltic Development Forum
Branding the Baltic Sea Region:
“Just do it”
170
2/2007
Antti Herlin
Chairman, the Confederation of
Finnish Industries, Elinkeinoelämän
keskusliitto
The Baltic Economic Area represents
a major opportunity for Finnish
industry
2/2007
Teija Tiilikainen
Director, The University of Helsinki
Network for European Studies
The challenges of the EU’s Baltic
Sea strategy
2/2007
Amelia Hadfield
Lecturer in European International
Relations, University of Kent
Nuclear energy in the Baltic-3:
Dilemmas and determination
2/2007
Tadeusz Palmowski
Professor, University of Gdańsk
TriCity – Kaliningrad – Baltic
Europol?
2/2007
Alvydas
Medalinskas
Director, International Policy Centre,
Vilnius
Challenges to the efficient EU
border with Russia at the
Kaliningrad enclave: A view from
Lithuania
2/2007
Antti Saurama
Head of Research and Consulting
Services Unit, Centre for Maritime
Studies, University of Turku
Maritime transports and their future
prospects in the Baltic Sea Region
2/2007
Kristian Nygaard
Senior Consultant, International
Tourist Consultants, ITC
Kaliningrad and the benefits of
gambling
2/2007
Nikita Lomagin
Professor, Department of World
Economy, St. Petersburg State
University
Quiet Russia: St. Petersburg as a
mirror of Putin’s political
stabilisation
2/2007
Kari Liuhto
Director, Pan-European Institute
(PEI), Turku School of Economics
St. Petersburg: The most important
foreign city for the Finnish economy
1/2007
Andris Piebalgs
in Charge of Energy
Energy policy for Europe: current
energy issues in the Baltic States
1/2007
Mauri Pekkarinen
Minister of Trade and Industry,
Finland
Lessons from the Finnish presidency
of the autumn 2006
1/2007
Heidi Hautala
The chairperson of the Green
parliamentary group in the Finnish
Parliament, the founding member of
the EU-Russia Centre
The Baltic Sea gas pipeline - power
or partnership?
1/2007
Valentina
Matvienko
The Governor of the City of St.
Petersburg
St. Petersburg – the leader of
Russian modernisation
1/2007
Aleksi Randell
Chairman, City Executive Board of
Turku, Vice-president, Union of the
Baltic Cities (UBC)
Protection of the Baltic Sea urgent
task: local actors have key role in
EU maritime policy
1/2007
Jari Luukkonen
Conservation Director, WWF Finland Let's save the Baltic Sea!
1/2007
Madis Habakuk
Rector, Estonian Business School
171
The effect of labour shortage on
Estonian enterprises
1/2007
Stanislav
Tkachenko
Dr., Vice-Rector, Saint-Petersburg
State University
The economy of Saint-Petersburg –
recent trends
1/2007
Carsten Schymik
Dr., Department for Northern
European Studies, Baltic Sea School,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
BalticStudyNet – promoting Baltic
Sea region higher education
worldwide
1/2007
Kari Liuhto
Professor, Turku School of Economics
Saving the Baltic Sea: small acts
more crucial than grand speeches
6/2006
Antti Kalliomäki
Minister of Education and Science,
Finland
Education and research — Key
factors in development in the Baltic
Sea Region
6/2006
Carl Bildt
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sweden
Sweden’s role in the Baltic Sea
region
6/2006
Georgy Boos
The Governor of the Kaliningrad
region, the Russian Federation
Kaliningrad region – a new
development strategy
6/2006
Sauli Niinistö
Vice-President, European Investment
Bank
European Investment Bank’s
financing in the Baltic Rim Region
6/2006
Tapio Reponen
Rector, Turku School of Economics
The role of scientific research and
higher academic education in the
Baltic Sea region
6/2006
Niels Mygind
Professor, Director of Center for East
European Studies, INT, Copenhagen
Business School
The Euro-rule for inflation is too
strict for the Baltic economies
6/2006
Timo Hellenberg
Dr (Int.Rel), Chairman of the BSR
Research Network on Civil Protection
Baltic Sea energy roulette: is a
survival kit on civil protection
needed?
6/2006
Elena Kropinova
Associated Prof. of the Immanuel
Kant State University of Russia,
Kaliningrad
Will tourism become “pole of
growth” of the Kaliningrad
economy?
Tapio Aho
Chairman, Finnish-Latvian Trade
Association
Finnish – Baltic Trade Associations
Case: Finnish-Latvian Trade
Association
6/2006
Raita Karnite
Dr. (Econ), Director, Member of the
Board, Institute of Economics,
Latvian Academy of Sciences
Threats and opportunities regarding
Latvia’s economy
5/2006
Erkki Tuomioja
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Finland
The role of the Northern Dimension
in the Baltic Sea cooperation
5/2006
Jonas Gahr Støre
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Norway’s role in the development of
5/2006
Ilmārs Rimšēvičs
Governor of the Bank of Latvia
Latvia: new transformation
challenges ahead
6/2006
172
Christian Ketels
Doctor, Harvard Business School,
Center for Strategy and
Competitiveness, Stockholm School of
Economics
The Baltic Tigers – An end in sight
for the growth story?
Ville Kaitila –
Maarit Lindström
Researcher, The Research Institute of
the Finnish Economy ETLA, Finland
– Project Manager, Prime Minister’s
Office, Secretariat of the Economic
Council, Finland
Experiences of Finnish firms in
Poland
5/2006
Juha Beurling
President of the Socialdemocratic
Environmental League in Finland,
Head of the Socialdemocratic group of
the environmental committee in
Helsinki
The Baltic Sea – The most polluted
sea area in the world
5/2006
Lars Rydén
The Baltic University Programme,
Uppsala University
The Baltic Sea region a forerunner
towards sustainability!
5/2006
Artur Usanov
Doctoral Fellow, Pardee RAND
Graduate School
Kaliningrad’s industry – a doubleheaded bird: will it fly?
5/2006
Filipp Kazin
Baltic Research Center
The city and the state foreign policy.
St. Petersburg after G8
Markku Sippola
Researcher, Social and Public Policy
Unit, University of Jyväskylä
Nordic manufacturing companies in
the Baltic States – are they
diffusing or evading the Nordic
industrial relations practices?
Günter Gloser
Minister of State for Europe in the
Federal Foreign Office, Federal
Republic of Germany
Creating an innovative Europe
4/2006
Andrzej Szynka
Ambassador, Embassy of Poland in
Helsinki
Post accession developments in
economic relations between Poland
and Finland: Challenges ahead
4/2006
Gerhard Lohan
Head, Unit Russia, European
Commission
Kaliningrad Transit: Achievements
and perspectives
4/2006
Mikko Pukkinen
Mayor, City of Turku
United by the Baltic Sea
Keijo Virtanen
Rector, University of Turku
The shared longstanding history of
Finland and Estonia provides the
basis for EU cooperation
Jarkko Heinonen
Assistant Manager, Economist, Turku
Chamber of Commerce, BCCA Office
Representative
The promotion of mutual trade is an
important way of developing the
competitiveness of the Baltic Sea
Region
5/2006
5/2006
5/2006
4/2006
4/2006
4/2006
173
Baltic Sea region’s new EU member
states increasingly important in the
internationalisation of Finnish small
and medium-sized companies
4/2006
Katja Heiskanen
Researcher, Pan-European Institute,
4/2006
Kari Liuhto
Kaliningrad turns into an EUflanked tax haven for Asian firms?
3/2006
Andres Lipstok
Governor, Eesti Pank
Estonia's Path to Euro Area
3/2006
Anne Christine
Brusendorff
Executive Secretary, HELCOM
HELCOM – creating a new
environmental strategy for the
Baltic Sea
3/2006
Eufemia Teichmann
Professor, Head of Institute of Baltic
States’ Economy, WSE, Warsaw,
Former ambassador of Poland in
Lithuania
European and Baltic dimension of
strategic partnership between
Poland and Lithuania
3/2006
Esko Antola
Jean Monnet Professor, University of
Turku
Third Wave cooperation needed in
3/2006
Esa Kokkonen
Director, The Baltic Institute of
Finland
A New Wave of the Baltic Sea
Cooperation on the Rise: Focus on
St. Petersburg
3/2006
Gennadiy Fedorov
Pro-Rector of Research, the Immanuel
Kant State University of Russia
The Kaliningrad oblast and
cooperation in the Baltic region
3/2006
Eric Brunat
Managing Director, EuropeAid in
Kaliningrad, Faculty of Law and
Economics, University of Savoie
The importance of higher education
to attract investment and contribute
to sustain economic growth and
competitiveness in Kaliningrad
2/2006
Per Stig Møller
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
A Good Foundation for the Future
2/2006
Alexander Stubb
Baltic Window of Opportunity
2/2006
Gabriele Kötschau
Director of the CBSS Secretariat
Perspectives of Baltic Sea Cooperation and the Role of the
Council of the Baltic States (CBSS)
2/2006
Felix Lapin
Minister of Economic Development,
The Government of the Kaliningrad
region
Development of the Kaliningrad
Region – New Perspectives
2/2006
Elina Pelto
Senior Researcher, Pan-European
Institute
Prospects and Challenges of the New
Law on Kaliningrad Special
Economic Zone
2/2006
Juha Nurminen
Chairman, John Nurminen
Foundation
Co-operation and New Thinking
Required for Protecting the Baltic
Sea
174
2/2006
Thomas Mielke
Baltic Sea Tourism Commission (BTC)
Tourism Development in the Baltic
Sea Region in 2005
1/2006
Aivars Aksenoks
Chairman of the Riga City Council
Riga - the Capital City of Latvia
Alexei Ignatiev
Founder and President of the
Association of International Experts
on the Development of the
Kaliningrad Region
Kaliningrad and the Baltic Sea
Region
1/2006
Urpo Kivikari
Professor Emeritus, Pan-European
and Business Administration
Baltic Rim Integration Opportunity and Necessity
1/2006
Marcus Svedberg
Chief Analyst, Stockholm Institute of
Transition Economies, Stockholm
School of Economics
The Baltic Rim Model
1/2006
Erik Terk
Director, Estonian Institute for
Futures Studies
Futures Scenarios for the Baltic Sea
Economic Space
6/2005
Stefan Meller
Minister for Foreign Affairs of the
Republic of Poland
Poland and Baltic Sea Regional
Cooperation
6/2005
Stephan Müchler
President of Baltic Sea Chambers of
Commerce Association
Triple Trade in Ten Years – a Vision
for the Baltic Sea Region
6/2005
Kari Jalas
The Central Chamber of Commerce of
Finland
European Integration is Bearing
Fruit
6/2005
Ralf Wiegert
Country Intelligence Group – Europe
Global Insight (Germany)
Poland after the Elections:
Addressing the Nexus between
Fiscal and Labor Market Reform
6/2005
Kari Liuhto
The China Phenomena in the Baltic
Sea Region
5/2005
Urmas Paet
Minister of Foreign Affairs, The
Republic of Estonia
More Than a Decade of Purposeful
Economic Policy
5/2005
Ville Itälä
Member of the European Parliament,
Vice-President of the Group of the
European People’s Party (Christian
Democrats) and European Democrats
New Impetus for the Baltic Sea Cooperation
5/2005
Johnny Åkerholm
President and CEO, The Nordic
Investment Bank (NIB)
Why a Baltic Sea Economic Region?
5/2005
Tomas Hanell
Research Fellow, Nordregio – Nordic
Centre for Spatial Development
Spatial Polarisation of the Baltic
Sea Region
4/2005
Kęstutis Daukšys
Minister of Economy, Republic of
Lithuania
Lithuania – Ambitious Plans in the
New Space
1/2006
175
4/2005
Mart Sörg
Chairman of the Board of Eesti Pank,
Professor of Money and Banking of
the University of Tartu, Head of
Institute of Finance and Accounting
4/2005
Juha Savo – Hannu
Elo
Executive Director – Senior Adviser,
Regional Council of Southwest
Finland
The Position of Southwest Finland
as a Baltic Growth Centre
3/2005
Artis Pabriks
Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs
The New Latvian Role in the Baltic
Sea Region
Jari Hyvärinen
Senior Adviser, Economist, PhD,
Tekes, the National Technology
Agency of Finland
The Baltic Countries and
Integration into the EU Innovation
Environment
2/2005
Kari Liuhto
A Common Baltic Sea Investment
Agency Could Attract New Capital
into the Region
2/2005
Riitta Kosonen –
Piia Heliste
Director, HSE / CEMAT, Professor,
University of Joensuu – Project
Manager, HSE / CEMAT
Finnish Firms Expanding their
Operations in the Baltic Sea Region
1/2005
Paula Lehtomäki
Minister for Foreign Trade and
Development, Finland
The Baltic Sea – A New Dimension?
Jorma Rytkönen
Group Manager, VTT Industrial
Systems, Maritime Operations and
Environment
On the Marine Oil Transportation
and Terminal Development in the
Gulf of Finland
6/2004
Thomas Laursen –
Roger Grawe
Lead Economist for Central Europe
and the Baltic States – Country
Director for Central Europe and the
Baltic States, the World Bank
Doing Business in the Baltics – a
World Bank Perspective
6/2004
Hannu Halinen
Ambassador, Director of the
Secretariat, Council of the Baltic Sea
States (CBSS)
CBSS and the Economic Cooperation
in BSR
5/2004
Audrius Brūzga
Ambassador, Embassy of Lithuania,
Helsinki
Lithuania in the Baltic Sea Rim
after EU Enlargement
5/2004
Alari Purju
Professor of Public Economics at
Tallinn University of Technology,
Administration
Internationalisation of Estonian
Economy through Foreign Direct
Investments (FDI)
4/2004
Valdis Krastins
Ambassador, Embassy of Latvia,
Helsinki
Latvia on the European Ship
4/2004
Lauri Ojala
Professor of Logistics, Turku School of
Economics and Business
Administration
Key Trade and Transport
Facilitation Issues in the Baltic
States
3/2005
1/2005
176
Baltic Banking is Modern and
Concentrated
3/2004
Stanislaw Stebelski
Ambassador of Poland to Finland
Poland in the Baltic Sea Rim –
Challenges Ahead
3/2004
Kazimiera Wójcik
Head of the Press Center, Information
Department, Polish Information and
Foreign Investment Agency (PAIiIZ)
Foreign Direct Investments in
Poland
2/2004
Matti Maasikas
Ambassador of Estonia, Estonian
Embassy in Helsinki
The Challenge Ahead – Estonia’s
Vision
2/2004
Kari Alho – Ville
Kaitila – Markku
Kotilainen
Research Director – Research Fellow
– Head of Unit, ETLA The Research
Institute of the Finnish Economy
Finnish Firms Look Forward to
Growth Prospects in the New EU
Countries
Kari Liuhto
Director, Pan-European Institute,
Turku School of Economics and
Business Administration
The EU Accession of the Baltic
States and Poland Creates an
Integrating Bridge between the East
and the West
1/2004
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