Keronen, Jouni

Climate Leadership Coalition

Jouni Keronen, FLKI (born 7 January 1960) is the Chief Executive Officer of the Climate Leadership Coalition (CLC) and docent of Energy markets in the Lappeenranta University of Technology. Before CLC he has worked as a Vice President, Innovation development, and Chief Information Officer in Fortum Corporation, Head of Power Plant Technologies Unit, Imatran Voima Oy, Finland and as manager and researcher in the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and SRI International, California and VTT, Finland. Dr Keronen holds four academic degrees, Dr. Tech., Electric Engineering, Lic. Tech., Computer Science, M.Sc., Power Plant Eng. and Energy Economics, and MBA. In 2011 he was nominated for Influencer of the year in the energy sector, and 2008 CIO of the Year in Finland. In the civil life, Dr Keronen has acted as a Founding and board member of Myrskyvaroitus-Stormwarming ry, a movement started by musicians to activate people for climate actions in their own life. In a project led by Dr Keronen Stormwarning association developed Citizens Climate Pledge that was introduced globally by UNFCCC.