Kaisa Virolainen

Kaisa brings experience from management consulting at McKinsey in Denmark and Finland. She primarily worked with green start-ups and scale-ups on strategy, organisational efficiency, and executive leadership and culture development. Before that, Kaisa worked in public affairs consulting, where her tasks included media monitoring and communication for clients and political stakeholders.

Kaisa holds a Master’s degree in International Security from the PSIA (Paris School of International Affairs) at Sciences Po Paris. Her selected specializations were climate change/sustainability and global risks, and she also obtained an advanced certification in gender studies. Kaisa has a Bachelor’s degree from the same university’s trilingual program in political science, focused on European cooperation. Kaisa has lived in 5 countries in Europe and the Middle East and speaks English, Finnish, French and German.