Before joining EK, he worked for almost 20 years in risk management and corporate safety management positions in international Finnish groups in the financial, communication technology, and logistics sectors.

In addition to EK, Rajamäki is a member of the boards of the Finnish Centre for Occupational Safety and Health, the Finnish Rescue Services Association SPEK, and the Finnish Risk Management Association, as well as of several permanent and temporary advisory boards and working groups, especially in the fields of internal security and defence. He has also completed the European RIMAP personal certificate in risk management and the specialised professional qualification in management and has co-authored a popular book on risk management with his colleagues.

He specializes in compensation systems, ownership, investor relations, board of directors and company valuation.

Professor Ikäheimo has frequently acted as a member of the arbitral tribunal in minority redemption cases and has provided an expert opinion in several legal cases. He has served as an advisor concerning investor relations, compensation systems, and board work.

In addition, he is actively involved in developing accounting and corporate governance-related legislation and guidance.

He also works as a consultant and adviser to clients in the financial services sector, focusing on financial markets, derivatives, and alternative investments. His teaching and research interests include alternative investments, financial institutions, and fixed-income and credit markets. He is also engaged in financial training for professional audiences.

He previously held various derivatives structuring, product development, sales, and trading roles in investment banking over two decades, most recently as Managing Director at Barclays Capital in London.

Antti Suhonen holds an M.Sc. (Economics) and a Ph.D. (Finance) from Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration.

In his dissertation, he studied corporate risk management (including the introduction of risk management systems and the interaction between formal and informal risk work).

In addition to his doctoral studies at the Department of Accounting, he has gained teaching experience from various university courses, from elementary to advanced accounting, and from the guidance of bachelor's thesis seminars. He has also gained experience in teaching at Aalto University Executive Education.
 
Taussi graduated with a master's degree from Aalto University School of Business in 2016, majoring in accounting (with an emphasis on management accounting) and minoring in finance. He was a semester exchange student at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, studying finance, strategy, and innovation management. Taussi has work experience as an analyst in the private equity industry (Taaleri, Sparkmind VC).
 
In addition to management accounting and control systems, Taussi has acquired extensive knowledge of economic and organizational theories. He actively follows the field of distributed master accounting/blockchain technology and its various applications (e.g. cryptocurrencies). He has also participated in the risk management group for the development of the ISO 31,000 risk management framework organized by the Finnish Standards Association.

Before that, he had an extensive career in financial compliance management.

He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Helsinki and an MSc in Econometrics from the University of Amsterdam. Prior to joining Aalto, he had worked at the European Central Bank and the Dutch Central Bank.

His research interests include asset pricing, financial markets, and investor behavior. His work is published in leading journals including Management Science, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and the Journal of Corporate Finance.

His expertise is banking regulation, bank risk management, and board organisation. Laakso holds a Doctor of Laws, a Master of Business Administration, and a Master of Engineering. He has a particular interest in risk-taking incentives and broader corporate purpose issues. Her PhD thesis, completed in 2023, was entitled "Corporate Governance in Systemic Banks: Reducing Risk Appetite and Systemic Risk through the Regulation of Board Governance".

His research interests include Public finance, Housing Markets and Makroeconomics. His areas of teaching are Macroeconomics numerical methods in Economics. His academic articles have been published in well-recognized journals such as Journal of Economic Theory and Review of Economic Dynamics.

Prior to joining University of Helsinki in August 2020, he was a research director at the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy. He has also been teaching at Aalto University and University of Helsinki for several years.

Niku Määttänen has a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, M.Sc. in Economics from University of Pompeu Fabra, and M.Sc. from University of Helsinki, Finland.