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, and holds a Jean Monnet Chair (see Project ECOvalence). 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 focus on European and international environmental and economic law and policy, in particular the nexus between these two areas. His writings thus cover topics such as the circular economy, sustainable trade and green public procurement. Harri’s objective as an educator is to offer inspirational teaching that is theory-grounded, practically topical, pedagogically innovative and genuinely interdisciplinary.

List of publications (on VUB publications platform)