Johanna Kentala-Lehtonen

Johanna Kentala-Lehtonen is a researcher at the Department of  Political Science and International Relations in the University of  Tampere, Finland. She is also a Research Fellow in the Earth System Governance Network.

She is currently working with her PhD. thesis with working title "Norms, Multinational Corporations and Climate Change Politics". She  is interested in private sector involvement in international  environmental and climate politics. She has conducted research on the  World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and is  especially interested in the private initiative of Greenhouse Gas  Protocol (GHG Protocol) developed by the WBCSD and the World Resource  Institute (WRI).

She holds a degree of Master of Social Science in Political Science  from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Previously she has been working with climate change related research  as a Research Assistant in Nordregio - Nordic Center for Spatial  Development in Stockholm and as Researcher in Hellenberg.com in Finland. She has also worked in European Parliament as an assistant to a MEP,  and done two internships in the Permanent Mission of Finland to the  United Nations in New York and in Geneva.