Jarmo Lahteenmaki

Jarmo Lahteenmaki General Information

Biography

Mr. Jarmo Lahteenmaki served as Senior Advisor & Legal Counsel at ACO Investment Group. He is the owner and the Executive Director of Law Office Jarmo Ltd, Helsinki, Finland. The company was founded at the beginning of 2007 and it specializes in international agreement law, environment and climate law, international labor and company law and international code of conducts (UN and ILO). Prior to setting up a Law Office, Jarmo has accumulated over 20 years of experience in Environment, Health and Safety regulation (EHS), industrial relations and human rights affairs. Jarmo has an active network and connections to Finnish political decision-makers in regional and national level. For ten years (1993-2003) he has been a member of the board of the biggest Finnish pension fund Varma with a balance sheet of €38 billion (2013). In addition Jarmo has been a member of the Finnish labour court for four years alongside with his work. Jarmo is a Licentiate in Law (University of Helsinki) and he has a French-English LL.M Diploma (KUB University of Brussels). Jarmo has a wide business network in Scandinavian countries especially in Norway and he has worked for five years in Brussels and acquired an in depth knowledge on EU law and EU institutions. Since 2008 Jarmo has been active in South-East Asia and Russia. Jarmo has been a member of the ministerial commercial delegation to Vietnam and has been a member to the first Finnish commerce delegation set up by the Foreign Ministry of Finland to Myanmar after the sanctions were partly lifted by the EU. Jarmo has had challenging projects, in addition to the ones mentioned above, in several fields of action in Uruguay, Argentina, South-Africa, Russia and France.