Tuukka Castrén is a Senior Forestry Specialist and works on forest law enforcement and governance through the Program on Forests (PROFOR) in the World Bank Agriculture and Environmental Services Department. Prior to working at the World Bank, he was with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Department for Development Policy in his native Finland, where he first joined the Ministry as an economic adviser, and later became the senior adviser for development policy. He also worked in private sector forest consulting for many years earlier in his career. Mr. Castrén has university degrees both in forestry and economics from the University of Helsinki.