MEET OUR Experts
Timo Perälä
Well-being kick ass engineer
Timo is El Presidente of the Winter Cycling Federation and passionate about year–round active winter cities. He is the mastermind for several urban and social innovations to make cities healthier and more sustainable. Timo has given several key notes, presentations, and workshops around the world.
Pekka Tahkola
Oracle of Oulu
Pekka just loves nature, especially a proper winter. Pekka knows pretty much everything there is to know about cycling in winter, maintenance, and about how walking and cycling can make our transport system work more efficiently, how they can improve our lives, health and economy, and all in all make our communities of better quality.
Eeva Huuhtanen
Winter Wizard
Eeva is the main author of “Winter and snow storage planning guidebook” published in 02/2024. Eeva educates professionals to master all four season in urban planning. Year-round city hydrology planning, snow management, year-round functional urban spaces and green areas are in the core of her expertise. Show Eeva a proper winter garden and she will lose her marbles.
Jani Ailovuo
Performance testing Guru
Jani is hailed as the “guru” of the CityMasterClass team. He works as a specialist in Performance testing at ODL Department of Sports and Exercise Medicin (Oulu, Finland). Jani is the mastermind behind individuals’, teams’ and organizations’ paths to success. He can change mindsets and behavior with individual performance data and with the power of a story. Mesmerizing.
KALLe VAISMAA
Digitalization professor
Formerly known as the cycling professor of Finland, Kalle is now more focused in helping cities to realize their ambitious strategies. Kalle likes conceptualizing entities and promoting meaningful issues through them in broad interaction with different stakeholders. Kalle works as a digitization professor at the University of Tampere, Finland and also as an independent consultant.
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Karl Saidla
Skiing sustainable transport reseacher
Karl is a former competitive cross-country skier who live in Ottawa, Canada. Karl works as an independent consultant and researcher. His research explores what policy and political approaches are most likely to help sustain and grow active and sustainable transportation rates. Karl has also good connections to Baltic and Nordic countires as he is a member of the Mobility Lab research team of the University of Tartu, Estonia..
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Should you be in our CMC team?
Our passion is to help cities around the world to be more sustainable and active. We aim to put together for each project a team that can make a difference. If you are an experienced professional capable of changing mindsets and sharing the same passion with us, do not hesitate to contact us (= send mail to Timo).