Teppo Heiskanen
Teppo Heiskanen is Director for Advancement and Corporate Engagement at Aalto University in Finland. The integrated advancement office at Aalto includes corporate relations, fundraising, alumni engagement, career and recruitment services as well as customer relationship management (CRM) development and analytics. Before joining Aalto in 2016, Teppo was an independent consultant in fundraising and international cooperation for five years. From 2003 to 2011, he worked for the Nordic Council of Ministers in Lithuania and Denmark in governmental relations, as well as organising international support for the European Humanities University, the Belarusian University- in-exile in Lithuania. He started his career in higher education management at the University of Helsinki in the 1990s in international relations. He also has experience in media and communications, and he has written six travel guidebooks. He has a master’s degree in theology from the University of Helsinki, and he has also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Key Areas of Knowledge
Corporate partnerships
European philanthropy
International relations