Mikko Ollikainen, a Finnish national, joined the Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat as an Adaptation Officer in October 2009. Prior to joining the GEF, Mikko worked in the World Bank Carbon Finance Unit as a Carbon Finance Specialist. At the CFU he was a deal manager for afforestation/ reforestation Clean Development Mechanism projects in Africa in the BioCarbon Fund portfolio, including the first African UNFCCC-approved A/R CDM project in Uganda, registered by the CDM Executive Board in August 2009. In addition to assigned projects, he worked in the development of the BioCF portfolio, including new areas such as agricultural soil carbon. Before his assignment in the CFU, Mikko worked for two years in the World Bank reconstruction program of the Indonesian province of Aceh, following the 2004 tsunami, supervising and implementing projects in the fields of environment and natural resources management. Mikko worked for two years in Beijing, China, as a country representative of an environment consulting firm and as the coordinator of an EU-funded policy research project prior to joining the World Bank.