Jonna Kangasoja is Co-Founder and CEO at Akordi, an organization pioneering in Finland the field of Public Policy Mediation: assistance provided by a neutral party to resolve multi-stakeholder disputes concerning public issues, such as the environment or natural resources.

Jonna has received her negotiation, conflict management and mediation training at Harvard Program on Negotiation and at MIT with Lawrence Susskind. She is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), and Finnish Association of Facilitators (Fafa). Jonna is a member of the Board of Advisors at the Finnish Community Mediation Center and a program manager at the Finnish Institute for Deliberative Democracy. She is also a trained Mindful Self-Compassion teacher.

Before co-founding Akordi, Jonna was a researcher and teacher at Aalto-University, Center for Urban and Regional Research YTK, where she focused on multiparty collaboration, boundary crossing and mediation in planning practices.