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About us

Condes Ltd's expertise is based on long and versatile experience and thorough knowledge of the customers and the core sectors we work with.

Tapio Wallenius

Managing Director

Tapio is responsible for Condes Ltd's strategic and daily management as well as the implementation of the projects. He is a seasoned expert in Development and Climate Finance; Private Sector Development (PSD); Impact and Risk Analysis; and Results-based Management (RBM), with more than 25 years of experience. He has led and conducted numerous evaluations and consulting assignments in these fields and developed various impact assessment and private sector development tools for international, public and private sector organizations. He has amble experience of working with funds and other investment vehicles, private sector support programmes and various funding instruments. Before Condes Ltd, Tapio has worked in several management and senior specialist positions at e.g. Finnfund; the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry for Labor and Economy, Prime Minister's Office and private consulting companies.

External advisers

Stefan Jansson

(Managing Partner, SVC Consultancy Ltd)

Stefan Jansson is a development and blended finance specialist with 25+ years of experience in financing productive investments in emerging markets and developing economies. His background with development finance institutions includes both financial structuring and transactional work – project finance of infrastructure, expansion financing of SMEs, structured investment funds (with different risk layers to attract private capital) and guarantee operations – as well as ex-post evaluations of developmental interventions and programmes. Stefan has extensive experience in private sector development, credit lines to SMEs, debt & equity finance of infrastructure and power projects. He is a former senior investment manager at Swedfund and Director of Swedfund's regional office in East Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. Stefan has been an independent consultant since 2016 via SVC Consultancy Ltd, having carried out assignments for bilateral agencies, development finance institutions and multilateral development banks.

Petri Uusikylä

(Research Director, University of Vaasa)


Petri Uusikylä has more than 30 years of experience in research related to public policy, evaluation and capacity building. He has written and published numerous studies and research papers, covering domains like innovation policy, the digitalisation of public services, impact assessment, public budgeting, policy evaluation, systems analysis, European policy-making, public management reforms as well as development policy and aid. He has served as a government adviser on the evaluation of public policy, the formulation of EU policy, and the management of performance for various EU Member States and OECD countries. Currently Petri works as the Research Director at the University of Vaasa, co-leading the Public Policy and Governance Research Group.