Pirkko-Leena Hakkarainen

Pirkko-Leena Hakkarainen, Ph.D, is Director, Strategic Portfolio Development at Metsä Fibre.
With more than 20 years of experience across academia and the chemical and forest industries, she has built a broad background in strategy, innovation, business and product development, and customer collaboration. 
Throughout her career, she has played a key role in developing and bringing new products to market, combining a strong customer and business perspective with deep technical understanding.