This curriculum vitae outlines the educational and professional background of Pekka Tapio Kettunen. It details his degrees including a Master's in Political Science from the University of Turku in 1981 and a PhD from the same institution in 1994. It provides an extensive list of his previous positions including roles at multiple universities in Finland and abroad. It also lists publications, supervised dissertations, committee memberships, and international presentations.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
2.2. 2016
Personal details:
Kettunen, Pekka Tapio (11.5.1957 Helsinki)
Degrees:
- Master of Political Science, Department of Politics, University of Turku, 1981
- Licenciate of Politics, Department of Politics, University of Turku, 1988
- PhD, Department of Politics, University of Turku, 1994 (Topic: Implementation
Networks)
Docentures:
- Docent of Political Science, Department of Politics, University of Turku, 1998.
- Docent of Local Government Services, Department of Local Government, University
of Tampere, 2001
- Docent of Public Administration, Department of Public Administration, Åbo
Akademi University 2004.
Language skills: Elementary Satisfactory Fluent
- Finnish (mt) x
- English x
- Swedish x
- German x
- Estonian x
- French x
Present Position:
- Senior Research Fellow, Department of Political Science. Abo Akademi
University, Turku, Finland.
- Visiting Part-time Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Zagreb,
Croatia (2015-2017)
Previous Positions:
- Senior Research Fellow (1.11.- 31.12. 2015), Cupore, Helsinki.
- Project Researcher (free-lance), 1.6.2014- 31.10. 2015
- Professor in Evaluation of Social Services. Department of Social Sciences and
Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä (1.6.2009-31.5.2014)
- Research Fellow (Erikoistutkija), Department of Regional Studies. University of
Tampere, August 2008- December 2008.
- Assistant Professor (Yliassistentti), Department of Political Science, University of
Tampere, August 2007- July 2008.

2. - Assistant Professor (Yliassistentti), Department of Management and Organisation,
Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, August 2002- July 2007
(absent July 2004 – June 2005).
- Professor (Professori), Department of Economics and Accounting, University of
Tampere, July 2004- June 2005.
- Research Fellow (Forskare), Department of Public Administration, Åbo Akademi
University, 1999-2002.
- Professor (Professori), Department of Public Health, University of Tampere, January
– May 2000 (25%).
- Junior Research Fellow (Nuorempi tutkija) (1994-1997) and post doc Research
Fellow (Tutkijatohtori) (1997-1999), Academy of Finland
Supervised doctoral dissertations:
- University of Tampere, Public Economy 2004-2005 (several)
- University of Jyväskylä, Social Work, 2009- (Haapakoski, Vennola)
- University of Jyväskylä, Political Science 2009- (Kukkonen, Pykälämäki)
Scientific expert responsibilities:
Board Memberships
- Member of the Board of the Finnish Association of Administrative Sciences (1990-1998)
- Member of the Board of the Finnish Association for Local Government Studies (1998-
2006, 2011-)
- Member of the Executive Board of a Research Project, Technical Research Centre of
Finland (VTT) 1998-2001 (EU and the regions), 2000-2003 (Social Innovations).
- Member of the IPSA Research group RC32: Public Policy and administration 2003-,
Secretary 2006-2009, 2009-2012.
- Member of the IPSA Research group RC05, Local Government, 2012-
- Member of the Arranging Committee for the 8th
International Conference on Evaluation
for Practice. Pori, Finland, June 2012.
- Member of the Editiorial Board: Urban Affairs (2015-), Finsk Tidskrift (2015-)
- Member of Nordisk Administrativ förening, Suomen osasto, 2015-
Conference chairs
- Involved in the arrangements of the Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences,
Turku 1997
- Chair of workshops in national conferences of Political Science and Administrative
Science, Local Government Association, Social Policy Association
- Coordinator of annual meetings of network studies in Turku 1996-2000
- Panel Chair, RC 32:1 Evaluation of Public Sector Reforms. Transition Costs as an
Ignored Dimension. IPSA World Conference, Fukuoka 9-13.7. 2006.
- Panel Chair with Ilmari Rostila, International Conference in the evaluation of practice.
Pori, June 2012.

3. - Panel Chair with Holger Strassmann, Humboldt University, Germany, RC32, Speaking
Truth to Power, Critical View on Evidence-based Policy-making, IPSA Wold Conference,
Madrid, July 2012.
- Panel Chair, International Conference of Social Work, University of Jyväskylä, March
2013.
- Panel Chair together with Fred Lazin, International Conference of Public Policy,
Grenoble, June 2013.
Referee:
- Article referee in Finland for Hallinnon tutkimus (Administrative Studies) and
Kunnallistieteellinen aikauskirja (The Finnish Journal for Local Government Studies),
Janus; and abroad for Governance, European Journal of Political Research, Scandinavian
Political Studies, Environmental Politics, Evidence & Policy, International Review of
Administrative Sciences.
- Referee for the Encyclopedia of Digital Government, ed. By Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko and
Matti Mälkiä. Hershey: Idea Group Publishing (2006)
- Referee for Local Government Studies, a special issue in the evaluation of institutional
reforms at sub-national government levels, edited by Helmutt Wolmann and Sabine
Kuhlmann (2010)
- Referee of Zagreb University’s PhD program in Political Science. Winter 2012.
- Referee of Icelandic Research Council, 2012.
- Referee of Estonian Research Council, 2012.
- Member of the Evaluation Panel, Slovenian Research Agency, Ljubljana 16-19.6.2014.
Examinations:
- Opponent of a Licenciate dissertation, University of Tampere, April 2000, May 2004,
September 2007.
- Assessment of Docentship competence, University of Tampere and Jyväskylä, several.
- Pre-Examiner of a Doctoral Thesis, University of Vaasa, November 2001, University of
Tampere, June 2003, October 2007, Åbo Akademi University June 2005, University of
Tampere 2007, 2009, 2011 (3)
- Opponent of a Doctoral Thesis: University of Tampere December 2004, May 2005.
Tasks related to Research Groups:
- Project leader for ”Den Nordiska Välfärdstaten i Förändring 1998-2001” (The Nordic
Welfare State in Transition”). Financed by NOS-S.
- Project member: Network Governance: Success and Failure (Roskilde University,
Denmark), 2006-2009
- Member of the Management Committee, COST program “Local Government Reform”
2013-2017.
Editor of special issues:
- Halduskultuur - Administrative Culture, Estonia, together with Michael Kull, MTT,
Helsinki, Finland, special issue on Local Governance, Decentralization and Participation –
Meta-Governance Perspectives, nr 1/2013.
- Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, , together with Evert Vedung, Sweden and
Morten Palle Hansen, Denmark, special issue on evaluation, nr 3, 2012.

4. Social Commitments:
- Member of the Working Group for Government’s Policy Program for Citizen
Participation, Autumn 2006.
- Member of the monitoring group for research projects at the VTT: EU technology policy
and the regions (2002-2003), Social innovations, 2004-2005.
- Member of the research team at Net-Effect Ltd, in TEKES financed evaluation projects,
2008-2010.
- Member of the Steering group for the evaluation of the KASTE program, Ministry of
Social Affairs and Health, 2009-2011.
- Member of the Expert group, Vaaka-project, Sininauhaliitto, 2013-2014.
- Member of the supervising group, a Tekes-financed management project
Liminaalijohtaminen, 2012-2013.
Most important visits abroad:
- During the period of 1994-1997, spent five months as a visiting fellow at the Department
of Politics, University of York., U.K
- In 2001, 2003 and 2008 in total five weeks visiting lecturer in a number of Japanese
universities
- Research group meetings: The Information Society, University of Naples, June 2004;
Europeanization of Regions, University of Florence, May 2005 and June 2006;
Democratic Governance Networks, Roskilde University, several meetings in 2006-2008;
Policy analysis, workshop at the University of Utrecht, May 2007; Evaluation of Social
Services, University of Agder, September 2009, University of York, September 2010;
Evidence-based policy-making, Humboldt University, Berlin, April 2010, March 2011.
Recent (2013-2015) international presentations:
- JANES Kyoto, Japan, November 16, 2013, with Chino Yabunaga: Municipal reforms in
Japan and Finland: a comparative analysis
- EGPA Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2013: Local Welfare Services: Public or Private
Production?
- University of Zagreb, Faculty of Public Administration, May 2013: Finnish Local
Government Reform in comparative Light.
- MidWest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2013: The Use of an Alternative
Private System in a Public Health Care system: Critical viewpoints (together with Katri
Sieberg, University of Tampere, Finland) (poster)
- Conference of Implementation Analysis, University of Linköping, Sweden, February
2013: Tackling Substance Abuse at Local Level (poster).
- Estonian Social Science Conference ESAK, Tartu, Estonia 25-26.4.2014: key-note
speech: Researchers and Political Decision-makers – odd fellows or partners?
- EGPA Speyer 10-12.9.2014: Child Day-care in Comparative Perspective, Scaling and
Rescaling. (Together with Philip Richter and Nikos Hlepas)
- IPSA conference, arranged by RC 05, RC 32, University of Zagreb, Decentralisation
policies: reshuffling the scene? Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 8-10, 2015. Paper:
Centralization vs. decentralization: The case of public health-care.