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Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Erkki Ormala
Dr. Ormala was born 1950. He has his M.Eng. degree in 1974 and his Dr.Tech. degree in 1986 from the Helsinki University of Technology.
He worked as a research engineer at the Technical Research Centre of Finland 1974-1987. In 1967 he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University in the USA and in 1982 at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.
1987-1999 he was the Secretary of the Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland. The Council is chaired by the Prime Minister with the task to give advice to the Government and administration in issues related to science, technology and innovation policies. In 1999 he joined the Nokia Group as Director, Technology Policy. At Nokia his responsibilities cover technology policy, knowledge management, university co-operation, future watch and issues relating to information society.
Dr. Ormala has published over forty papers on evaluation and innovation policies. He has been a consultant to a number of industrial companies, international organisations and European governments. In 1992-1993 he chaired the international expert group which carried out the evaluation of EUREKA. Since 1994 he has been a member of the evaluation and monitoring panels of the EU RT&D programmes. In 1996-1999 he was the chairman of the OECD Working Group for Technology and Innovation Policy.
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