Female Leader Engineer
We are a proud partner of the Female Leader Engineer Talent Program in Finland and Sweden. Female Leader Engineer is CoGig's annual talent program that is giving female engineering students the opportunity to make valuable contacts with Nordic companies with a focus on leadership. Through the program, the students get to develop their leadership potential and build a strong business network among both the companies and the other students for the future.
We have many Female Leader Engineer alumni working at Fortum. I think it is super valuable to have this great community of talented female engineers supporting each other.
Female Leader Engineer Alumni at Fortum
Junior Specialist, Demand Planning, Hydro
Hanna Palmér
Hanna Palmér is the winner of Female Leader Engineer 2025. She graduated from Chalmers University of Technology, where she studied Mechanical Engineering with a Master’s degree in Product Development, and today she works at Fortum as a Junior Specialist in Demand Planning for the hydropower IT function.
Vice President, Asset Operations, Hydro
Katarina Atteryd Eckerwall
Katarina Atteryd Eckerwall participated in the program in 2014 and was also named the winner. She won a rotating trainee program that gave her the opportunity to work at three different companies, one of which was Fortum. Katarina has had a rapid career progression within the company and today she works as the head of Fortum’s 124 hydropower plants in Sweden and Finland.
Learning new perspectives from the partner companies
As a partner of the programme, Fortum team members participate in different stages of the program, from the assessment day to the pitch day and the closing gala.
During partner visits, companies are placed in the spotlight. This gives us the opportunity to highlight the company and, in particular, showcase the leadership paths our female engineers have taken throughout their careers.
Female Leader Engineer 2026
Applications open for FLE Talent Program in Finland