Dr Totti Könnölä is a renowned Finnish expert in foresight, innovation and sustainability, based in Madrid since 2003. He is a manager, expert, mentor and speaker. You may bump into him at meetings in Brussels, international conferences or start-up presentation panels. He is the managing director of the sustainability and innovation consultancies Luonto, SL and Insight Foresight Institute, SL, as well as a professor of Foresight, Innovation and Circular Economy at the University of Alcalá. He has also provided his services to several directorates-general and agencies of the European Commission and to numerous international and national entities. Among other works, he is co-author of the Palgrave Macmillan book Eco-innovation: When competitiveness and sustainability shake hands, translated into Spanish and Chinese, as well as The Circular Economy: Economic, Managerial and Policy Implications, published by Springer. Könnölä is a member of the board of directors of the Sustainability College Bruges and a member of ‘the Cotec 100’, a group of experts from the Cotec Foundation for Innovation. Dr Könnölä holds a PhD in Science (Technology) from Helsinki University of Technology and a Master’s degree in Environmental Economics from the University of Helsinki. He is fluent in Finnish, English and Spanish, and has an intermediate level of French and Swedish.