Category: Expert of the Week

Ewa Kicińska – Helping companies to enter new markets

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Ewa Kicińska is a consultant experienced in international marketing and development of market entry strategies and distribution channels, for example identification of potential business partnerships, market opportunities identification and analysis, competitor assessment and competitive positioning. “My specialties are sales channels design, company and sector analysis, value chain analysis, distribution channel selection, business partner search, customer … Continued

Satu Lapinlampi – Solutions to best suit your needs

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Satu Lapinlampi has worked in both communication and journalism. “I’m interested in organizational communication and public relations as well as intercultural and interpersonal communication. I’m also interested in journalism.” She is the CEO of Hiottu Oy. Hiottu is both software designing company specialized in web programming and communication software and advertising agency specialized in web … Continued

Naziaty M Yaacob – Managing projects on heritage, conservation and sustainability

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Naziaty M Yaacob is the head of Environmental and Urban Design. She manages research and outputs of projects on heritage, conservation, and sustainability. “To ensure the success of the projects, I make sure our researchers work closely with relevant stakeholders, for example, heritage NGOs, disabled persons’ organizations and government agencies. Our researchers consist of both … Continued

Ajay Nair – “The concept of sustainable, resilient, smart, livable cities motivates me as a planner”

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Ajay Nair has created concept-to-client enterprise project proposals, tracking, resource planning for solutions and system lifecycle, conduct training programs and maintenance for government and private sector markets. He has also increased productivity, improved customer services, process efficiencies, decision support by providing leadership, implemented enterprise GIS/IT processes, systems and achieved performance improvements in Singapore with ISO … Continued

Susan Shaheen – “I try to frequently learn from other disciplines and carefully listen to students who bring new insights to the field”

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Dr. Susan Shaheen is a pioneer and thought leader in innovative mobility strategies. She was among the first to research and write about the changing dynamics in shared mobility and likely scenarios automated vehicles might gain prominence. Susan, why you want to solve challenges? “I find complex problems fascinating, which employ an interdisciplinary approach. I … Continued

Lindsey Aldaco-Manner – Engaging young people in the governance decisions

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Lindsey Aldaco-Manner is President of the World Youth Parliament for Water (WYPW), independent consultant on the thematics of ‘Water and Youth’ and Water-Energy-Food Nexus, and an observing board member of the steering committee for the Global Water Partnership.  Lindsey’s research focuses on decision-making processes and governance issues related to regional and national water management planning, … Continued

Marko Kallio – An environmental engineer and OpenStreetMap enthusiast

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Marko Kallio is an environmental engineer, cartographer and a geoinformatician based in Helsinki, Finland.  Marko holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering, specialized in water management, and a Master’s degree in geoinformatics. Currently he works as a researcher at Aalto University and study towards my PhD in the field of geoinformatics. “Before starting as a … Continued

Oliver Meres – Kick-starting business through quality content and design

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With a background in copywriting, UX and content strategy in UX, Oliver Meres’ passion for words has paved his way to brand strategies, design projects, as well as content marketing platforms and campaigns. “Through working closely with designers, researchers, photographers and reporters, my skillset includes managing production teams, budgets, timelines and everything that has to … Continued

Stefania Romano – Designing and managing transformational change programs

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Stefania Romano is a results-oriented senior government professional with over 15 years of diversified and global experience and a track record of successful delivery at senior management level.  Stefania has an overarching skills portfolio which covers development of international environmental projects over different continents, strategizing, operational management, public policy, communications, private-public partnerships and much more. … Continued

Igor Derylo – Helping companies to enter new markets

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Igor Derylo worked as a market and technology researcher at Frost & Sullivan before joining Finpro (currently Business Finland) as a business consultant for construction, logistics and machinery sectors. “Then I co-founded Market.Open, where we help companies to enter new markets, mainly Poland. I am a market entry consultant, involved mainly in market opening activities, … Continued