Susa Eräranta

Project Director at the City of Helsinki | Finland

Susa Eräranta works as a Project Director with climate mitigation at the City of Helsinki and as a Professor of Practice at Aalto University. She has a background in climate mitigation, adaptation, and circularity issues as well as urban planning and strategy-making processes. Susa has served in various expert and managerial posts in both the public sector and academia. Her current duties include the development of effective climate mitigation actions and research-based process development. In this way, she enables resilient and carbon negative planetary futures. In Susa’s research, she aims for high practical relevance and genuine societal impact. Her research focuses on the networked dynamics and systems analysis of complex planning and strategy-making processes, especially the human side of knowledge dynamics. Learn more about Susa’s work on CityChangers.org: https://citychangers.org/climate-action-plans.