Kaisa is a Policy Analyst in the transition finance workstream at CETEx. She researches market-based and regulatory approaches that could effectively mobilise finance for sectoral and economy-wide Net Zero plans.
Her professional background is primarily in private-sector sustainable finance research. She has worked on carbon markets and nature-based finance as a Policy Analyst at MSCI, and evaluated the sustainability performance of Japanese companies across economic sectors as an ESG Analytics Associate at Moody’s. Beyond the corporate world, she has researched the intersection of AI governance and energy security at a UN thinktank (International Council on Environmental Economics and Development), and led a research-based art project exploring the rubber industry in Southeast Asia as a microcosm of globalised value chains, funded by Kone Foundation.
Kaisa holds an MA in Politics from the University of Glasgow, and an MSc in Area Studies from the University of Oxford, where her dissertation was a quantitative study on sub-national renewable energy transitions in Japan.
Research interests
- Market-based and regulatory approaches
- Private-sector sustainable finance
- Carbon markets and nature-based finance