Timo Mäkelä has worked on environmental, finance and sustainable development issues for the last 40 years in a wide range of organitations in the national and international context. He has been employed by the governments of Finland and Botwana as well as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Euuropean Commission and most recently by the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra as an expert, a policy advisor and for the last 25 years at the middle and senior management positions.