Dr Nina Kilkku, RN (psychiatric nursing), MNSc, PhD, psychotherapist. Nina is an associate professor of mental health, substance abuse and addiction work in VID Specialized University in Oslo, Norway, and the president of European Psychiatric Nurses (Horatio). 

As part of her daily work, she is currently leading the European Mental Health Workforce Research, the collaborative research of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the WHO Pan-European Mental Health Coalition. She has vast expertise on international, national, and regional collaboration with different mental health related organizations and NGOs, as well as on the editorial activities in international peer-reviewed publications. 

Besides her other publication activities, she edited the first European book on advanced level mental health nursing together with her colleagues, professor Agnes Higgins and associate professor Gisli Kort Kristofersson, in 2022. Nina is a member of the Advisory board of the European Centre of Excellence for Research in Continuing Professional Development and she has been awarded as a Fellow Ad Eundem of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery in Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (FFNMRCSI).