The report was prepared by a team led by Francesca Spinelli and comprising Polina Knutsson and Laura Kuusela from the OECD Investment Division, under the overall guidance of Ana Novik, Head of OECD Investment Division. The authors would like to thank Liisa Lundelin-Nuortio and Satu Vasamo-Koskinen from the Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment; Kimmo Sinivuori from the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Antti Aumo, Annabella Polo and Kaija Laitinen from Business Finland; and Enrico Pesaresi, Iulia-Mirela Serban, Stratis Kastrissianakis and Akis Kyriacou from the European Commission for their excellent support and advice as part of the Steering Group overseeing the project. The authors are also grateful to Mike Gestrin and Cecilia Caliandro for all their work in the early stages of this project. Edward Smiley prepared the report for publication. Kany Ondzotto and Marie-Laure Garcia provided administrative assistance.
Comments and inputs were received from Ana Novik, Stephen Thomsen, Fernando Mistura, Joachim Pohl, Martin Wermelinger, Emilie Kothe and Perla Ibarlucea Flores from the Investment Division; John Drummond, Janos Ferencz, Frédéric Gonzales and Inese Rozensteine from the Trade and Agriculture Directorate; Florentin Blanc, Mike Pfister and Daniel Trnka from the Directorate for Public Governance; and Alexandre Georgieff from the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. Comments from Finnish ministries were collected and received with the assistance of the Cooperative working group for improving law drafting, chaired by the Ministry of Justice. The report also benefitted from inputs by Ari Grönroos and Annamari Soikkeli from Business Finland, and exchanges with the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority (Mika Maliranta), VATT (Elina Berghäll, Seppo Kari and Janne Tukiainen), EK (Sami Pakarinen), Yrittäjät (Mika Kuismanen) and Statistics Finland (Petri Kinnarinen). Valuable insights on the business environment were provided by Marja-Liisa Niinikoski and Laine Valkama from Helsinki Business Hub, and in particular by Rosa Thurman from Amcham Finland, who further supported the authors in reaching out to a broader audience of international companies. Lastly, the authors are also grateful to CEOs and senior officials of several foreign-owned companies based in Finland, who contributed to enrich this report by sharing their experiences on the overall business climate in Finland.
The report was carried out with funding by the European Union via the Structural Reform Support Programme and in cooperation with the European Commission's DG REFORM