Emma Hakala

Dr. Emma Hakala is a Leading Researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Her research focuses on environmental security and the geopolitics of climate change, such as the role of international actors in building climate security practices. She leads the project “Climate change and Finland’s security of supply” and a part on conflict analysis in the project “Water Cooperation and Peace – Finnish Water Way”, which FIIA implements as a partner of the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE).

Hakala gained her D.Soc.Sci degree in political history at the University of Helsinki in 2019. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the securitisation of the environment and the role of international organisations in post-conflict Western Balkans. Hakala has previously obtained a Master’s degree in political history at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki. Hakala is also currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the project “Toxic Crimes: Legal Activism against Wartime Environmental Destruction” at the University of Helsinki and a member of the multidisciplinary BIOS Research Unit.

Expertis

Klimatsäkerhet, miljösäkerhet, västra Balkan, samarbete efter konflikter

Examen

Politices doktor (Politisk historia), Helsingfors universitet, 2018
Politices magister, Agronomie- och forstkandidatexamen Bachelor of Science

Språkkunskaper

Finska, engelska, svenska (arbetsspråk), franska, tyska, serbiska (passiva kunskaper)

Projekt

Klimatförändringens politik
Finland och klimatsäkerhet i en värld av ömsesidigt beroende
Nordic Security of Supply in the Age of Disruption
Samarbete kring vatten och fred – finskt vattenkunnande
Klimatförändring och Finlands försörjningsberedskap

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