Harri Kalimo
Director of Research Centre
Harri Kalimo is a professor and the Co-Director the 3E (Environment, Economy and Energy) Research Centre at the Brussels School of Governance. Trained as a lawyer (LL.D; LL.M) and an economist (M.Sc. Econ & BA), Harri teaches in the BSoG’s two post-graduate programmes: the LLM in International and European Law (”PILC”) and the M.Sc. in European Integration (EuroMaster). He also holds a part-time professorship at the University of Eastern Finland (Environmental and Economic Law). Before his academic career, Harri held managerial and legal positions in Nokia Corporation.
Harri’s research interests are on European and international environmental and economic law and policy, with a particular focus on the intersections between these two areas, such as the circular economy, sustainable trade and green public procurement. Harri’s objective as an educator is to offer an inspirational and versatile combination of theory-based, practically topical, pedagocically innovative, genuinely interdisciplinary teaching.
Featured publications
Measures to reduce the environmental impacts of public procurement
Projects
Jean Monnet Module: Sustainability and Trade: A European Narrative - SUSTAEN
European Commission - Jean Monnet Module
Kiertotalous ja tuotepolitiikan ohjauskeinot
Finish Prime Minister's Office
Hiili- ja ympäristöjalanjälki hankinnoissa – lainsäädäntö ja mittaaminen
Finish Prime Minister's Office
BFSJ: Production of fully synthetic paraffinic jet fuel from wood and other biomass
European Commission - FP7
Research Network on Regime (REFRACT)
Jean Monnet Chair: rECOncile - Rethinking the European Economy, Ecology, and their Interactions
European Commission - Jean Monnet Chair
Events
Open lecture - The European Green Deal: Current state and future reflections
Policy Forum 1: Unilateralisation in the EU’s trade policies - Opening panel
Due Diligence Obligations and Transnational Ecological Conflicts – A conceptual framework
TDI YEARLY 2020 – Key developments in the EU’s Trade Defence Policy of the past year.
Public Ph.D. Defence of Klaudia Majcher: COHERENCE BETWEEN EU DATA PROTECTION AND COMPETITION LAW IN THE DIGITAL MARKET
News
EU Single Market expert training courses 10 and 11 provided by Prof Kalimo of 3E Research Centre to DG GROW & EISMEA
Green procurement in the EU – 3E professor Harri Kalimo in a public hearing in the European Parliament on 1 December
3E Research Centre continues the series of internal market trainings for the experts of the EU’s SOLVIT network
The Circular Economy at the intersections of private and public law – Keynote by Prof Kalimo 7 October
3E Centre’s “Competition law turns green” series – Focus on legal: to hold or to move?
The Circular Economy and product policy – report of 3E Research Centre published
3E Research Team continues series of Circular Economy expert workshops with focus on green claims
3E Research Centre hosts an expert workshop on Circularity in EcoDesign
TDI Yearly 2020 – a vibrant conference on trade launches the 3E Research Centre of BSoG
BSoG gives training to EU's SOLVIT experts on the mutual recognition of goods
