In Summer 2012 I was elected to the new treasurer of UWE, perhaps because I have teached economic, history and social sciences at the school. As a teacher and researcher I am interested in knowledge and how to make new knowledge in organisation. Therefore I completed my doctoral thesis in knowledge management in Tampere University of Technology (2007): Expertise of Small Business Entrepreneurs in the competition arena.The theoretical frame of reference based on the process model of the organisations´ knowledge creation developed by Nonaka and Takeuchi.
For me UWE and Finnish Federation of University Women are good channels to activate my knowledge and learn more about new knowledge other countries and their federations. I have a strong feeling, that UWE and IFUW could offer possibilities to improve education and the equality women and men. It is necessary to push up women to participate and find their ways to the highest level of decision making both on the public sector and in the business. We have a good situation in Finland but also here the young academic women have problems to find the first jobs. This is of course smaller problem than violence against women and problems having education. Knowledge society, knowledge management and leadership are my thesis in university and partly for that I would welcome more skype-use in UWE-meetings too.
I am living in Tampere, the second largest town of Finland located some 170 km north from Helsinki. I have two daughters, the older Ira is doctor of geophysics and works on oil business in Oslo, Norway. The younger Sini has graduated Master of Arts in French.

