Helmi Räisänen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Climate Politics and Security at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Helmi works in a FIIA research project called “Climate change and Finland’s security of supply”, which studies how climate change and its mitigation affect Finland’s security of supply. Helmi defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Helsinki in 2024. Her thesis explored how crisis preparedness ought to be reorganized to better match the current era of chronic socio-ecological crises. She has published on the topics of simulation exercises, the Finnish comprehensive security model, environmental security and pandemic preparedness.
Helmi is a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki, and she is affiliated with Environmental Policy Research Group EPRG, Past Present Sustainability Research Unit PAES, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science HELSUS and Creative Adaptation to Wicked Socio-Environmental Disruptions WISE consortium.
Expertise
Crisis preparedness; environmental security; simulation exercises; pandemic preparedness
Degrees
Doctor of Social Sciences (environmental policy), University of Helsinki, 2019–2024
MSSc (social and cultural anthropology), University of Helsinki, 2013–2019
Language skills
Finnish, English (working languages), Spanish, Swedish (receptive skills)