People at GCK Project

Risto Karinen

Graduate Research Associate
 

Risto is a graduate student at ASU’s Department of Political Science. He
arrived in Arizona in the fall of 2003. Prior to that, he spent two years working for
the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Finland and four years for consultancy
companies in Finland focusing on strategic planning, scenario building,
program and policy evaluation, and organizational change. Risto graduated with a
B.A. and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Tampere, Finland.
He also holds an M.A. in International Conflict Resolution from the University of
Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom.

Risto’s main interest is in the relationship between knowledge and policy making.
He is starting his dissertation research, which looks at how internationally
produced expert knowledge interacts with different kinds of policy-making
structures and cultures. Risto will be looking at policy-making in two policy
fields, economic and environmental, in two countries, the United Kingdom and
Finland.