Biography
Professor Emeritus of Media and Communications Policy at the University of Helsinki and professor (part-time) at the Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas. Between 2022–2025, he is a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He was the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences from 2016 to 2019 and Director of the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities in 2020. He has published extensively on media and democracy, communication rights, the European public sphere, and media and inequality. He is a member of the Euromedia Research Group, and a member of several editorial boards, including Javnost/The Public, Global Communication, World of Media, and Communication and the Public. He serves an expert on Public Service Broadcasting for the Administrative Council of the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE.
