Current Position
Senior Advisor, Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra
Education
1981: Master of Laws, University of Helsinki
Significant merits
Data Protection Ombudsman 1997-2020
Member of Council of Human Rights in Finland (2012-2020)
Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University
Joint Supervisory Body and Appeals Committee of JSB of Europol
Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (European Data Protection Board) since 1997, Vice chair 2000-2004
Permanent expert collaborator of the European Commission
Affiliation
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Education
1989: Ph.D, University of Edinburgh
1986: Law degree, UPV/EHU
Current Position
Director of the International Master of Sociology of Law (Oñati, IISL)
Professor of Jurisprudence in the Law Degree, UPV/EHU
Professor of Legal Theory, Sociology and Philosophy of Law, UPV/EHU
Secretary General of EuroBasque
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, University of Helsinki
Significant Merits
Writer of The Legal Reasoning of the European Court of Justice (OUP, 1993)
Has edited several notable books and published more than 150 articles
Has served as an opponent at the University of Helsinki and has given advanced courses for doctoral researchers
Affiliation
University of Copenhagen
Education
1989: LLD (dr.jur.) from University of Copenhagen
1984: Attorney-at-law, admitted to appear in Danish high courts
1981: LLM (can.jur), University of Copenhagen
Current Position
Professor of Private Law, University of Copenhagen
Honorary member of the Law Society of Finland
Chair of Juridisk Forening in Copenhagen
Member of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR
Significant merits
2002-2017: Chair of the Danish section of the annual Nordic lawyers’ meeting
2017: Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation prize for contributions to legal research
Has also served as an opponent in public examinations of doctoral theses at the University of Helsinki
Since 2003: Editor-in-chief of the article section of the Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen journal
2005: Honorary doctor, University of Oslo
Current Position
Chief Judge, Attorney-at-Law
Education
1987: Master of Laws, University of Helsinki
1989: Trained on the bench (Attorney-at-Law)
Significant Merits
2019: Awarded the honorary Finnish title of laamanni (chief judge).
2007 - 2010 (deputy chair from 2004 to 2007): Chair of the Finnish Bar Association 2001 – 2004 Membership in the Board of Directors of the Finnish Bar Association
2010–2020 Member of the Judicial Appointments Board
Member of several Ministry of Justice working groups.
Affiliation
University of Edinburgh
Current Position
Professor, Salvesen Chair of European Institutions, University of Edinburgh
Head of University of Edinburgh Law School
Co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory
Education
2013 - 2013: Entrepreneurial University Leadership Programme - Entrepreneurial leadership, Oxford Said Business School
1982 – 1983: European Law, Université libre de Bruxelles
1979 – 1982, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Law with modern languages, University of Cambridge
Significant Merits
Advanced Grant by the European Research Council
2008–2013: Member of the Centre of Excellence in Foundations of European Law and Polity Research
2009-2013: Dean of Research of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
2014-2017: Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Has served on Academy of Finland expert panels
2017-2018: EURIAS Fellow at the University of Helsinki’s Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Education
1966: Master of Laws, University of Helsinki
1971: Licentiate of Laws, University of Helsinki
1972: Trained on the bench
Significant Merits
1974–1983: Senior Adviser for Legislative Affairs at the Ministry of Justice
1983–1994: Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Environment
1994–2007: Justice of the Supreme Administrative Court
He has also held positions of trust in the sports sector, where he has served as secretary general of the World Athletics Championships, long-term chair of the IAAF Arbitration Panel, chair of the IAAF Ethics Commission, a member of the Sport and Law Commission of the International Olympic Committee, and chair of the Finnish Sports Law Association
Author of seven books