Liisa Kauppila

Liisa Kauppila is a Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and a visiting researcher 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 supply security. 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 great power rivalry on technology standards and its implications for Finland, the use of dystopias and comic art in participatory futures research, and China’s economic engagement in the Arctic. The first and the second of the themes are related to the externally funded research project StandardEdge.

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

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