Tiina Vähänen - Associate Secretary-General of the XIV World Forestry Congress

Tiina Vähänen - Associate Secretary-General of the XIV World Forestry Congress

Tiina Vähänen has worked on international forest and natural resources policy issues at FAO since 2001. She is currently Associate Secretary-General of the XIV World Forestry Congress, and coordinated FAO's contributions to the global climate change debates, notably the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Previously, she led FAO's work within the Collaborative Programme on Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD), a joint programme among FAO, the UN
Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and coordinated international forest policy issues and FAO contributions to international agreements, notably the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (a coalition of 14 international forestry-related UN, World Bank, CGIAR and other key international agencies).

 A "forester" by education, Ms Vähänen has also worked on assignments for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and the Secretariat of the UN Forum on Forests, as well as working in the Finnish forest industry in international timber marketing, and as Senior Adviser at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland.