Jukka Leskelä is managing director in Finnish Energy, a branch association of power, district heating and gas companies in Finland. Finnish Energy has around 270 member companies and the association has offices in Helsinki and in Brussels.

Jukka Leskelä has represented the branch since already 19 years in Finnish Energy with different tasks. His specialities are energy, climate change and environmental policy issues in EU and in Finland. Before that he worked 9 years in energy company Fortum with emissions control and environmental technology. He is M.Sc. in Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology (presently Aalto University).

Jukka Leskelä has held various positions in national and European organisations. Presently he is a board member in Eurelectric (the association of electricity industry in Europe), and in Nordenergi (joint collaboration of Nordic energy associations).