Liisa Kauppila

Liisa Kauppila is a research fellow in the Arctic International Relations Project at the University of Lapland Arctic Centre. She is finalizing her PhD at the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku. Her expertise lies in China’s global economic engagement and practices especially in the Nordic countries and in the Arctic, as well as the impacts of China’s economic practices on Finland’s security of supply. She is also a trained futurist with a special expertise on foresight techniques and the methodological synthesis of futures research and art.

Currently, Kauppila’s research focuses on post-humane Arctic policy, great power rivalry on technology standards and its implications for Finland, the use of dystopias, utopias, and comic art in participatory futures research, and China’s economic engagement in the Arctic and the Nordics.

Kauppila’s peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and reports have been published by Cooperation and Conflict, the Polar Journal, Globalization, and publication series of various institutions. She has also been responsible for executing six extensive Delphi stakeholder exercises in academic, business, and governmental projects. The latest of these studies focused on the Arctic Ocean, enhancing Finnish and Swedish preparedness in an era of great power rivalry, and advancing the norm of climate responsibility globally.

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