Iikka was a Commissioning Editor for the Finnish Broadcasting Company, YLE Documentaries, Finland since 1998 until March 2015. He was Executive Producer for Steps For The Future and one of the Series Producers for Why Democracy. He is a board member of Steps and Steps India He was 2011-2012 a visiting professor in Tampere University and has lived periods of times in India, South Africa, Denmark and Egypt.
In YLE he commissioned several internationally awarded documentaries like 3 Rooms Of Melancholy, The Steam Of Life and Punk Synchrome. He has be also r supported numerous international well known documentaries like Act of Killing, Armadillo, Viva Les Antipodes, Five Broken Cameras,
As an independet producer he has produced MAchines ( awarded at Sundance), Machines (premier at Cannes) etc. His own filmis inculde Past is Present, Amal, Inam, Naila, Man from the Shadow, Our Common Future? and Tehri – Two Journeys.
He is Executive Producer of Rough Cut Service and hasn beeb working as a tutor in several workshops, among them ExOriente, Doc Forward, Generation Africa, DocEdge, DocIncubator, DocsByTheSea.
Among the publications there is a one book about documentary filmmaking “Steps By Steps”, written together with Don Edkins.