Curriculum vitae of Mr. Tuomas Kuokkanen

Career:

• Clerical Officer, Secretariat of the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission, Helsinki Commission, 1982-1986
• Assistant in International Law at the University of Helsinki, 1987-1989
• Notary, Hyvinkää local court, 1989-1990
• Legal Assistant, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The Hague, the Netherlands, 1990-1993
• Legal Officer, Ministry of the Environment, 1993-2000
• Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of the Environment, 2000-2016
• Acting Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki, 2003 and 2004
• Part-time Professor of International Environmental Law at the University of Eastern Finland, 2004-2016
• Justice (acting member) of the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland, 2016-2017
• Member of the Compliance Committee of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2016-

Mr. Kuokkanen has participated as a member of the Finnish delegation in the negotiations of several multilateral environmental agreements. He has published a number of articles on international environmental law and international law.