Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen is a Professor in Russian Environmental Studies at the Finnish Centre for Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies (Aleksanteri Institute), University of Helsinki and holds the title of a Docent in Russian energy and natural resource policies at the Finnish Defence University. He is also a non-resident fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) in Tallinn, Estonia.
He unfolds Europe’s relations with Russia through the prisms of energy, violence and the environment in his latest book ‘How Europe got Russia wrong’ (E. Elgar 2024). In his previous book “The Energy of Russia. Hydrocarbon Culture and Climate Change” (E. Elgar 2019), he explores the impact of significant oil and gas dependence on Russia’s politics, identity, and approach to climate change and renewable energy.
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