Retired head of Climate Service/Finnish Meteorological Institute, former head of the Expert Team on User Liaison under the Commission for Climatology/World Meteorological Organization (CCl/WMO) (2001-2004), former co-leader of the Expert Team on Climate Information and Prediction Services (CLIPS), Verification and Climate Applications (CCl/WMO) (2005-2008), Chair of the Local Organizing Committee and Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the WMO Conference on Living with Climate Variability and Change: Understanding the Uncertainties and Managing the Risks (LWCVC), 17-21 July 2006, Espoo, Finland, Senior Scientist under the Programme of Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation between Finland and Mozambique (STIFIMO) to establish a field experiment to develop holistic grassroot climate services for local farmers (2010-2012) and Senior Scientist under the Higher Education Institutes - Institute Cooperation Instrument/Centre for International Mobility (HEI-ICI/CIMO) to establish a new MSc-level course on “Forest Management in a Changing Climate. Application of Holistic Grass-Root Climate Services” under the project to update the MSc- and PhD curricula of the School of Forestry of the University of Eldoret, Kenya in cooperation with the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu