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The European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI)

Visiting address: Vilhonkatu 4 B 19, 00100 Helsinki, Finland

E-mail addresses: [email protected]

Office e-mail: [email protected]

Facebook: facebook.com/europeaninstituteheuni

Twitter: twitter.com/Heuni_institute

Director Natalia Ollus
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +358 50 5135987

Communication Specialist Aleksandra Anikina
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +358 50 3290011

Senior Programme Officer Anniina Jokinen
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +358 50 351 7044

Senior Programme Officer Julia Korkman
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel:  +358 503471104

Administrative and Finance Specialist Ieva Silinevica
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel:   +358 50 5161330

Researcher Anni Lietonen
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +358 50 411 6760

Researcher Anna-Greta Pekkarinen (Leave of absence 13.6.2024-30.4.2025)
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +358 50 477 7120

Sustainability Specialist Saara Haapasaari
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel:  +358 50 4767855

Assistant Aili Pääkkönen
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +358 503713791

The international Advisory Board of HEUNI serves as an important link with the United Nations and the various regions of Europe. The Chairman of the Advisory Board and four of its members are appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, after consultation with the Government of Finland.

Four members of the Board, including the Director of HEUNI, are appointed by the Government of Finland. A representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime participates ex officio in all deliberations of the Advisory Board.

The members of the Advisory Board are appointed for a period of five years. For the 2023 – 2027 term the composition of the Board is as follows:

• Dr Katja Franko, Chairman of the Board, Professor of Criminology, University of Oslo

• Dr Mark Shaw, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime 

• Neil Wilkins, Head of Migrant Workers Programme, Institute for Human Rights and Business

• Dr Andrea Di Nicola, Director of the Centre of Security and Crime Sciences and Associate Professor of criminology at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento

• Stephanie Futter-Orel, Executive Manager, WAVE Network (Women Against Violence Europe)

• Director, Division for Treaty Affairs, UNODC, (ex officio member)

• Dr Elina Pirjatanniemi, Professor, Director, Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University

• Ari Evwaraye, Head Of Strategy, Ministry of the Interior

• Dr Aarne Kinnunen, Counsellor, Ministry of Justice

• Dr Natalia Ollus, Director, HEUNI