Anna Valtonen

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Vice-Chancellor

Vice-Chancellor from 1 August 2023. Previously she has worked as Vice President at Aalto University (Art & Creative Practices) and as the Dean of the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. 2009-2014 she was Professor and Rector of the Umeå Institute of Design at Umeå University in Sweden. She has also worked as Post Doc and Visiting Professor at the Management Department of ESSEC Business School, France. Her professorship is in Strategic Design, and she has written about the organisational history of design, the future possibilities thereof and on art and design in relation to change and society. Her educational background is in art history and theory, industrial design and arts management. Anna Valtonen has an extensive background in industry; design, management, end-user understanding, strategy, and startups. In 1997-2009 she worked in various roles in Nokia, most recently as Head of Design Research & Foresight. She has been a board member of several companies, public organisations and universities and is actively involved in several national and EU-level boards, advisory groups and consortia.