Founders, International Advisory Board and Board of Trustees

We operate under the name of Baltic Sea Action Group (BSAG) throughout the whole Baltic Sea area. Baltic Sea Action Groups operations are carried out by the Foundation for a Living Baltic Sea. The name of the foundation has been translated into all 14 languages that are used in the drainage-area of the Baltic Sea. The foundation was registered 3.3.2008 by Ilkka Herlin, Saara Kankaanrinta and Anna Kotsalo-Mustonen. Preparations started early 2007.

Board of Trustees

Ilkka Herlin

Chairman of the Board, Cargotec Oyj,
http://www.cargotec.com/

Peter Immonen

Chairman of the Board, WIP Asset Management, firstname.lastname(at)wip.fi
http://www.wip.fi/

Lassi Linnanen

Professor, Lappeenranta University of Technology, firstname.lastname(at)lut.fi,
http://www.lut.fi

International Advisory Board

Ms. Tarja Halonen

CHAIR: President of the Republic of Finland

Mr. Igor Maydanov

Chairman of HELCOM, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources of Russia

Mr. Alexander Stubb, Ph.D

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Mr. Urmas Paet

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Estonia

Ilkka Herlin, Ph.D

Chairman of Cargotec Corporation &Foundation

Mr. Jorma Ollila

Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Nokia

Mr. Bengt Holmström

Professor of Economics (MIT)

Mr. Axel Wallenberg

Director, The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

Organization

Saara Kankaanrinta

(M.Soc.Sc.), Co-founder, Secretary General, firstname.lastname(at)bsag.fi
(on maternity leave)

Mathias Bergman

Ph.D., doc., Secretary General, Program Director, +358 50 380 7155, firstname.lastname(at)bsag.fi

Anna Kotsalo-Mustonen

Ph.D. (Econ.), Co-founder, +358 500 200 480, firstname.lastname(at)bsag.fi

Fundraising and corporate relations.

Linda Lindfors

Communications, +358 40 543 9820, firstname.lastname(at)bsag.fi