Petri Kuoppamäki

Professor of Business Law at Aalto University Business School

Speaker

Dr. Petri Kuoppamäki is Professor of Business Law at the Aalto University Business School in Helsinki. Petri obtained his LL.M in 1989 at the University of Helsinki, Finland. In 1991 he obtained a post-graduate degree in European Law at the European Institute of University of Saarland in Germany, in 1995 Licentiate in Law and became 2003 Doctor of Laws (LL.D) at the University in Helsinki.

Petri started his career in a law firm specializing in international business law. In 1993 he was appointed secretary general of the Finnish Competition Council, a special judicial body dealing with antitrust and public procurement cases (today Market Court). In 2002 he returned to private practice and joined the Finnish law firm Castrén & Snellman as a partner. From 2003 to 2011 he served as the global head of antitrust for Nokia Corporation (Vice President, Legal & IP). In 2009 he was invited to the first ever chair in competition law in Finland at the University of Helsinki. In 2013 he was appointed to his present position at the Aalto University. Petri has written many books and articles on competition law, EU law, public procurement and law & economics and he regularly speaks at conferences.

Among other things he is chairman of the editorial board of the Finnish Yearbook for Competition Law, member of the board of the Finnish Association for European Law, chairman of the ICC Finland competition committee and member the legal committee of Finnish Chamber of Commerce as well as editorial member of several legal journals. In 2016 he was appointed full member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and in 2019 to the Academy of Finland, Culture and Society Board.