Sari Maritta Baldauf (born 10 August 1955 in

Kotka Kotka (; ; la, Aquilopolis) is a city in the southern part of the Kymenlaakso province on the Gulf of Finland. Kotka is a major port and industrial city and also a diverse school and cultural city, which was formerly part of the old Kymi parish ...

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) is a Finnish businesswoman who is chairman of the board of directors of

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, i ...

. She joined the board in 2018 and became vice chair in 2019, before she succeeded

Risto Siilasmaa Risto Kalevi Siilasmaa (born 17 April 1966) is a Finnish businessperson and the chairman, founder and former CEO of F-Secure Corporation (formerly Data Fellows), an anti-virus and computer security software company based in Helsinki, Finland. ...

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 The Aalto University School of Business ( fi, Aalto-yliopiston kauppakorkeakoulu; sv, Aalto-universitets handelshögskola), is the largest business school in Finland. Founded in 1911, it is the second oldest business school in Finland and one of ...

. 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

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. In 2002, the ''

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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 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 ...

, Capman,

F-Secure F-Secure Corporation is a global cyber security and privacy company, which has its headquarters in Helsinki, Finland. The company has offices in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, ...

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and Daimler. In 2011, she replaced Matti Lehti as chairman of the board at the electrical utility company in Finland,

, 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.

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