Giles Dickson is the Chief Executive Officer of WindEurope, a position he’s held since 2015.  WindEurope is the voice of the European wind industry.  It represents the whole value chain of onshore and offshore wind across Europe and has more than 400 members.  It engages Governments and other stakeholders on policy and regulation.  It organises industry exhibitions, conferences and workshops.  And it coordinates publicly-funded R&D in wind.

Dickson is also Chairman of the independent Advisory Council of ENTSO-E, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity.

From 1992 to 2008 he was a civil servant in the UK Government, working mostly on European affairs. From 2008 to 2015 he worked for the French engineering company Alstom where he was Vice-President for Global Public Affairs. 

Juha Halttunen joined the Blic in January 2019 after serving the former government and party in parliamentary duties since 2011. From 2015 until 2019, Juha served as a Special Adviser for the Minister of Employment, Mr. Jari Lindström and as the Head of Cabinet for Blue Reform ministerial group, thus holding the most important political advisory position in the party. Prior, he worked as an Economic Advisor for the Finns parliamentary group.

Kai Mykkänen is the Chair of the Parliamentary Group of National Coalition Party. He has worked as the Minister of Foreign Trade and Development 2016-2018 and as the Minister of Interior 2018-2019. He was also in response of the National Coalition’s energy policy under the previous government. Before being a member of parliament Mykkänen has worked at Sampo Bank in Russia and at the Confederation of Finnish Industries in Helsinki.

Niilo Mustonen is the leading public affairs expert in Finland. Before becoming a founding partner of Blic, he worked as a Director for Public Affairs at Pohjoisranta Burson-Marsteller.

Niilo has previously served in several positions in one of the biggest parties in Finland, the National Coalition Party (NCP), including Communications Manager of the NCP Parliamentary Group. During his time at the Parliament, he actively participated in drafting NCP policy on several sectors. Niilo’s wide network includes politicians and policy-makers from all parties and sections of the government and the media.

Katja Perätalo advises clients on large-scale industrial construction and investment projects on a full lifecycle basis, and both in terms of non-contentious and contentious aspects. She has particular expertise in EPC & EPCM projects and other construction, services and procurement contracts especially within the heavy industries, construction, and energy sectors. She holds a Master of Science (Technology) degree from Aalto University and a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Helsinki, with her doctoral dissertation covering liabilities in construction projects.

Patrik Granvik graduated from Aalto University in 2021 with master degree in Sustainable Metals Processing. Patrik is deeply interested in adequacy of metals in the green energy transitions.