Seppo Honkapohja#
Email: | Seppo.honkapohja 'at' aalto.fi |
Membership Number: | 873 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
Username: | shonkapohja |
Elected: | 1990 |

Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Aalto University School of Business
- 2008 - 2017 Member of the Board, Bank of Finland
- 2004 - 2008 Professor of International Macroeconomics, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2000 - 2004 Academy Professor, Academy of Finland and University of Helsinki
- 1992 - 2004 Professor of Economics, University of Helsinki
- 1989 - 1995 Academy Professor, Academy of Finland and University of Helsinki
- 1987 - 1991 Professor of Economics, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration
- 1982 - 1983 Senior Fellow, Academy of Finland
- 1978 - 1979 Visiting Lecturer and Scholar, Harvard University
- 1975 - 1987 Scientific Director in the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
- 1972 - 1974 Research Worker to Professor Jouko Paunio in the Academy of Finland
Fields of Scholarship
- Macroeconomics
Honours and Awards
- 1981 Doctor Primus 1976-1980, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki
- 1990 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1991 Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- 1992 Medal of Honor (1st Class Knight) of the Finnish White Rose Knights
- 1997 - 2002 Chairman of the Social Science Group
- 1998 Jaakko Honko Medal by Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration
- 1999 Fellow of the Econometric Society
- 2004 Fellow of the European Economic Association
- 2004 Yrjo Jahnsson Foundation Anniversary Prize in Economics
- 2010 Doctor of Science h.c. in Economics and Business Administration, Turku School of Economics