Mr. Rilli Lappalainen
Director of Sustainable Development
Rilli Lappalainen is currently Director of Sustainable Development at Fingo, national platform for Finnish development NGOs. He has worked over 25 years with sustainable development as civil servant, consultant and civil society actor in all continents. He is heavily involved in global work e.g. through Forus (International Forum of National NGO Platforms), Action for Sustainable Development-network, CONCORD (European confederation of relief and development NGOs) and is a founder and chair of Bridge 47 which is a global network to bring people together to share, learn and act towards transformative change with the help of global citizenship education. Integration of learning and education in politics and practice and mixing things up to find new and coherent solutions have been the redline of Rilli´s work and life from local scouts to global networking. Mr Lappalainen is a veteran of HLPFs, longstanding member of Finnish National Commission for Sustainable Development and regular speaker and commentator.