Born on 22 June 1956 in Salo, Finland

• Master of Laws, University of Helsinki, 1979
• Senior Officer in Legislative Affairs, Ministry of Justice, 1980-1984
• Trained on the bench, Helsinki District Court, 1985
• Senior Adviser in Legislative Affairs, Ministry of Justice, 1985-1995
• Head of Division (1995-1997), Assistant General Counsel (1998-1999), Co-Director (1999-2000) of the European Investment Bank, Legal Directorate, Luxembourg
• Member (2000-2015), President (2006-2015) of the Supreme Court of Finland
• Member of the Board of the Finnish Law Association, 2001-2006
• Member of the National Board of the Nordic Lawyers’ Conference, since 2005
• Chairperson of the Judicial Appointments Board of Finland, 2006-2012
• Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the Institute of European Economic Law, University of Helsinki, 2008-2011
• Vice-President of the Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the European Union, 2008-2015
• Dr. econ. h.c., Hanken University, School of Economics, Helsinki, 2009
• Dr. jur. h.c., Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, 2010
• Dr. jur. h.c., Faculty of Law, University of Turku, 2015
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of European Law (ERA), since 2008, President 2011-2016
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Law Faculty, University of Helsinki, 2011-2015
• Member of a committee set up by the Ministry of Justice of Finland for reforms in the justice system, 2012-2015
• Member of the panel provided for by article 255 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, mandated to give an opinion on the suitability of candidates to perform the duties of judge or advocate general of the Court of Justice or the General Court, since 2014
• Judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 1 January 2016.