Dr Tuula Kaisto started as the administrative coordinator of the UTU Overseas Campus in Windhoek in the beginning of September 2019. Besides having extensive experience in academic work as a researcher, university teacher and in curriculum work (both in Finland and in Namibia), Dr Kaisto has successfully coordinated four international cooperation projects between the University of Oulu and 5 Universities of sub-Saharan Africa in 2010-2016. During that time she also lived in Namibia for 3 years and worked as an Associate Professor at UNAM School of Medicine, in the Department of Anatomy. By training Dr Kaisto is a biochemist/cell biologist and she got her PhD in 2003 from the University of Oulu.