Sari Maritta Baldauf (born 10 August 1955 in
Kotka
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,
Finland
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) is a Finnish businesswoman who is chairman of the board of directors of
Nokia
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. She joined the board in 2018 and became vice chair in 2019, before she succeeded
Risto Siilasmaa as chairman in 2020. Until 2005, she was head of Nokia's Networks Business Group.
Baldauf graduated as a Master of Business Administration from
Helsinki School of Economics
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. She received honorary doctorates in Technology (Helsinki University of Technology) and Business Administration (Turku School of Economics and Business Administration and Aalto University School of Business) in 1979, and joined
Nokia
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in 1983. She was selected into Nokia's Group Executive Board in 1994.
Baldauf was selected as the most influential female executive in the year 1998 by
Fortune
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. In 2002, the ''
Wall Street Journal
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'' named her as Europe's most successful female executive.
On December 3, 2004 Baldauf announced that she would resign from Nokia for personal reasons. She is or was a member of a number of executive boards of Finnish and international companies including
Fortum
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,
Capman,
F-Secure
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The company has offices in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, ...
,
Hewlett-Packard and
Daimler. In 2011, she replaced Matti Lehti as chairman of the board at the electrical utility company in Finland,
Fortum
Fortum Oyj is a Finnish state-owned energy company located in Espoo, Finland. In addition to Finland, it focuses on Germany and other countries in Central Europe, Great Britain, Russia and the Nordic region. Fortum operates power plants, inc ...
, making her the first female chairman of a major Finnish company. She left the Fortum board in 2018. She is also a Member of the Board of Directors of
Aalto University
Aalto University ( fi, Aalto-yliopisto; sv, Aalto-universitetet) is a public research university located in Espoo, Finland. It was established in 2010 as a merger of three major Finnish universities: the Helsinki University of Technology, the ...
Foundation and the think tank Demos Helsinki.
References
1955 births
Hewlett-Packard people
Living people
Finnish businesspeople
Nokia people
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