Prof. Harri Kalimo

Harri KALIMO is responsible for internal market related questions. He is also associated with the VUB group POLI as well as the programme on Human Ecology. Kalimo is a Visiting Fellow at Yale University and an Associate Professor at the Turku School of Economics. Kalimo lectures currently on environmental law and policy as well as on European social and cultural agency at the VUB, and on EU law at the University of Tampere.

His current research projects at the IES and Yale deal with the role of environmental law and policy (in particular extended producer responsibility) in different models of federalism, with transatlantic relations as well as with corporate environmental decision-making. His writing has dealt with environmental, constitutional and trade law, as well as competition law, legal theory and legal history. His major work is “E-CYCLING—Linking trade and environmental law in the EC and the U.S.”, written with the research funding of the Academy of Finland. Kalimo has academic and non-academic working experience from multiple disciplines, fields of work and geographic locations. A lawyer and an economist by training, he holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from Turku (Finland) School of Economics (1989-1994) and a Master’s Degree in Law from Turku University Faculty of Law (1992-1998). He obtained his doctoral degree in law from the same faculty in 2004. Dr. Kalimo’s academic experience is from various visiting positions in the Harvard Law School, Institut d’Études Européennes (Université Libre de Bruxelles), New York University School of Law, and Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Dr. Kalimo’s has held non-academic posts in Nokia Corporation, varying from managerial duties in global product marketing projects (1994-1995) to that of a Legal Counsel (2001-2003), responsible for supporting the Mobile Music and Mobile Enhancements business units of Nokia.

In the latter position, Kalimo’s focus areas included e.g. IT law, contract law, intellectual property rights, product liability and competition law. He was also the Legal Counsel horizontally responsible for environmental matters. Between these two positions (1998-2000) Dr. Kalimo also served as the Legal Counsel in Nokia Corporation’s office of European Union governmental affairs. He was in charge of the policy areas outside of the field of telecommunication policy, such as internal market, competition, environmental and consumer policy issues, and served in Nokia’s regulatory strategy forum “Future Watch”.