Sari Maritta Baldauf is the former head of Nokia Networks.

Baldauf graduated as a Master of Economics from Helsinki School of Economics

Helsinki School of Economics

The Aalto University School of Economics , known as Helsinki School of Economics until 2009, is the largest and leading business school in Finland and one of the most renowned in Europe...

 in 1979 and joined Nokia

Nokia

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...

 in 1983. She was selected into Nokia's Group Executive Board in 1994.

Baldauf was selected as the most influential female executive in the year 1998 by Fortune

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. In 2002 Wall Street Journal named Baldauf as the Europe's most successful female executive.

On December 3, 2004 Baldauf announced to resign from Nokia on account of personal reasons. She is currently a member of a number of executive boards of Finnish and international companies including Fortum

Fortum

Fortum Oyj is a Finnish publicly listed energy company, which focuses on the Nordic and Baltic countries, Poland and the north-west of Russia. After acquisition of Russian energy company TGC-10 in year 2008, Western Siberia has become an important operating area for Fortum. The head of the company...

, Capman, F-Secure

F-Secure

F-Secure Corporation is an anti-virus and computer security software company based in Helsinki, Finland. The company has 18 country offices and a presence in more than 100 countries, with Security Lab operations in Helsinki, Finland and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

, Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard

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 and Daimler

Daimler

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. She is intended to replace Matti Lehti as chairman of the board at the major electrical utility company in Finland, Fortum

Fortum

Fortum Oyj is a Finnish publicly listed energy company, which focuses on the Nordic and Baltic countries, Poland and the north-west of Russia. After acquisition of Russian energy company TGC-10 in year 2008, Western Siberia has become an important operating area for Fortum. The head of the company...

, during the spring of 2011. This will make her the first female chairman of a major Finnish company.