05.03.2023
SLA appoints Mike Ameko Lippert as Strategy Director
We are happy to share that we have appointed Mike Ameko Lippert for our new position as Strategy Director.
With the appointment of Mike Ameko Lippert, SLA aims to strengthen and expand the studio’s growing services within strategic biodiversity consulting with a specific focus on creating nature-positive strategies for corporations, cities, states, developers, and foundations.
“With Mike Ameko Lippert as our new Strategy Director, we strengthen a key service area in SLA where we have experienced growing demands from our clients and collaborators. Drawing on Mike’s unparalleled experience in working with top management in major corporations and cities, we can expand our services and ensure that nature, biodiversity, and social sustainability will get their natural place at the C-suite level. And thus create tangible and nature-positive change throughout our clients’ entire organizations – from strategy and implementation to design and completed projects,” says SLA partner and CEO Mette Skjold.
Taking on the new role as Strategy Director in SLA is a natural step for Mike Ameko Lippert, whose professional relationship with SLA spans more than 17 years and stretches from citizens’ engagement and creative development to large-scale strategies and implementations – with PensionDenmark’s ambitious biodiversity strategy as the latest collaboration between Mike Ameko Lippert and SLA.
“There is no more important challenge in our time than turning the biodiversity crisis into positive change for the well-being of the entire planet. And for me, there is no better place to work with that mission than at SLA. I am looking forward to strengthening SLA’s strategic consultancy services and developing the market for nature-positive strategies to help stop biodiversity loss,” says Mike Ameko Lippert, who sees a host of unique values and experiences that SLA can provide strategically to clients.
“With Mike Ameko Lippert as our new Strategy Director, we strengthen a key service area in SLA where we have experienced growing demands from our clients and collaborators.”
— Mette Skjold, Partner & CEO
“In SLA, we facilitate the development of strategies with a focus on nature with a professionalism and an experience like no other consultants or advisors in the Nordics. Our approach to nature-positive strategies is based on the best available science on how to increase, preserve, and protect biodiversity and on deep experience with driving value-based change processes. Our team represents more than 30 years of experience with nature-based design, over 20 years of experience with assessments of biodiversity and ecosystems, and 20 years of experience with facilitating partnerships and involving stakeholders and users, as well as advising cities and states. This is a unique background to create results for our clients by translating the UN Secretary General’s COP 15 call-to-action into credible actions: To step up for nature. Step up for biodiversity. Step up for humanity,” says Mike Ameko Lippert.
Mike Ameko Lippert holds a MA in Modern Culture and Cultural Communications and has for the past 20 years worked with strategies, city branding, and exhibitions with a strong focus on biodiversity and climate action. Before joining SLA, Mike Ameko Lippert worked as an independent advisor in AMEKO (since 2010), was co-founder of andel (2016-2022), and co-founder of 2+1 Ideas Agency (2002-2010).
Contact us to know more
Mike Ameko Lippert
Strategy Director, Associate Partner
10.06.2025
SLA creates 104 new neighbourhood parks in Abu Dhabi
We are happy to share that we have completed one of the largest urban greening projects to date in the UAE: 104 new neighbourhood parks across Abu Dhabi, designed to improve health, biodiversity, and the everyday quality of life for all Abu Dhabi’s residents.
01.06.2025
SLA and GHD win major design project for Ookwemin Minising
We are incredibly excited to share that we – together with our partner GHD – have won the assignment as prime consultant for Ookwemin Minising: Toronto’s new 39.6-hectare island neighborhood planned for more than 15,000 residents!
23.05.2025
SLA exhibits New Nordic City Nature at Oslo National Museum
Today, the exhibition “New Nordic – Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place” opens at the National Museum in Oslo. SLA and Dyvik Kahlen have made a specially designed pavilion for the museum square – that takes visitors from the Michelin kitchen out into the urban realm. Its roof and landscape are planted with native, edible species from Oslo’s shores and forests, and offers a taste of New Nordic City Nature.