CURRULUM VITAE NAME Markku John Rainer Suksi DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH 3 September 1959 in Närpes, Finland HOME ADDRESS Karelengatan 18, 20740 Turku/Åbo, Finland (phone: +358-50-5344031) OFFICE ADDRESS Department of Law/Åbo Akademi University Gezeliusgatan 2, 20500 Turku/Åbo, Finland (phone: +358-2-2153231; e-mail: [email protected]) FAMILY Spouse: Lena Hannus-Suksi, MA, Teacher of Children with Special Needs Children: Anna (b. 1989); Oskar (b. 1992); Vilhelm (b. 1998) DEGREES Master of Political Science (Åbo Akademi University, 1983); Licentiate of Political Science (Åbo Akademi University, 1986); Master of Laws (LL.M., the University of Michigan Law School, 1989); Doctor of the Science of Law (S.J.D., the University of Michigan Law School, 1992); Doctor of Political Science (Åbo Akademi University, 1993; Public Law). KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES Main languages: Swedish and Finnish. Other languages (indicated by numbers: 3=fluent; 2=good; 1=fair): English German French Dan. Norw. Dutch Reading 3 2 1 3 3 1 Writing 3 - - ? ? - Speaking 3 1 - ? ? - SCHOLARSHIPS October 1, 1985 - June 30, 1986: research scholarship for studies at Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, Tilburg, the Netherlands; joint grant by the Finnish Ministry of Education and the Dutch Ministry of Education; July 10, 1988 - August 11, 1988: Orientation in the U.S. Legal System, course in Washington D.C. by the International Law Institute; grant from the Institute for International Education; August 24, 1988 - May 12, 1989: Fulbright scholarship for research and LL.M. studies at the University of Michigan Law School; PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE June 1, 1979 - August 17, 1979: worker at Säntin Saha sawmill in Teuva; June 1, 1980 - August 30, 1980: trainee at the Manpower District of Vaasa; June 1, 1981 - August 30, 1981: trainee at the Postal District of Vaasa; June 1, 1982 - August 30, 1982: trainee at the Department of Law of Åbo Akademi University; 1 January 1, 1983 - September 31, 1985: research assistant and acting Assistant Professor (state law and international law, Department of Law, Åbo Akademi University); July 1, 1987 - June 30, 1988: acting Assistant Professor (state law and international law, Department of Law, Åbo Akademi University); August 1, 1989 -> Assistant Professor (state law and international law, Department of Law, Åbo Akademi University); September 1, 1989 - December 31, 1990: Acting Senior Assistant Professor (state law and international law, Department of Law, Åbo Akademi University); January 1, 1991 - July 31, 1993: Research Assistant, the Academy of Finland; August 1, 1993 ->: Senior Assistant Professor (state law and international law, Department of Law, Åbo Akademi University), currently on leave; August 15, 1993 - July 31, 1994: Acting Associate Professor (constitutional law, Faculty of Law, the University of Turku); August 10, 1994 - August 31, 1994: Acting Associate Professor (comparative law and jurisprudence; Faculty of Law, the University of Turku); September 1, 1994 - July 31, 1995: Acting Professor of Public Law (the University of Vaasa); August 1, 1995 - July 31, 1997: Acting Professor of Public Law and International Law (Åbo Akademi University); March 1, 1997 – July 31, 1998, Professor of Public Law (the University of Vaasa); From August 1, 1998, Professor of Public Law at Åbo Akademi University; September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2009: Senior Research Fellow (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA, with grant from the Academy of Finland); December 1, 2011 – December 31, 2012: Director, Development of Linguistic Matters (Ministry of Justice, Finland); August 1, 2015 – July 31, 2016: Research professor with the grant from the Pool of Professors, facilitating visits at the University of Ottawa (October – November 2015) and at Emory University and the Carter Center (January – February 2016). OTHER POSITIONS -Member of the Section of Education of the Finnish UNESCO Commission, 1993-1995; -Member of the Editorial Committee of Mennesker & Rettigheter, a Nordic journal on human rights published in Norway (until 1997); -Docent of Public Law and International Law at Åbo Akademi University from June 28, 1994; -Director of the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University, 1995-1997; -Member of the Finnish UNESCO Commission, 1996-1998; -Rapporteur to European Public Law since 1997 -Expert to the Governmental Commission on the Unification of Election Legislation, 1996- 1997; -Advisor to the Finnish Delegation of the 29th General Conference of UNESCO in 1997 (Prime Minister’s letter to the Director-General of UNESCO of 8 October 1997); -Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Finnish Yearbook of International Law; -National Director of the European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation 1997-2014; -Member of the Board of Åbo Akademi University, November 2009 – 2011, 2012-2013; -Member of the General Editorial Board of European Yearbook of Minority Issues since 2013; -Member of the Editorial Board of Global Journal of Animal Law; -Secretary General of the Advisory Board on Linguistic Matters of the Government of Finland, 1.11.2011 – 30.6.2013; -Vice-Chair of the Advisory Board on Linguistic Matters of the Government of Finland, 1.4.2016 – 31.3.2020. -Member of the Council of Europe’s Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government (GIE) for Finland, May 2018 – April 2023. 2 -Member of the Editorial Board of Small States & Territories since 2018. ELECTION AND REFERENDUM OBSERVATION ACTIVITIES March 22-26, 1990: election observer in Hungary for the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights; May 17-22, 1990: election observer in Romania for the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights; March 1-4, 1991: referendum observer in Estonia for the Finnish Helsinki Committee; September 24-28, 1992: election observer (head of mission) in Romania for the Finnish Helsinki Committee; December 10-14, 1993: election observer (head of mission) in the Russian Federation for the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs; December 14-19, 1995: election observer in the Russian Federation for the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (part of the EU Mission). December 1999: election observer in the Russian Federation for the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (part of the OSCE Mission). May 2019: election observer in Finland for ElectionWatch.EU during the EP elections. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CONSULTATIONS: July 20-26, 1991: presentation of a commentary on the Albanian Draft Constitution in Tirana, Albania, on behalf of three Swedish organizations (Pro Justitia, the Swedish Helsinki Committee, and the Swedish Section of the International Commission of Jurists); August 17-20, 1991: presentation of a commentary on the Romanian Draft Constitution in Bucharest, Romania, on behalf of the International Helsinki Federation, the Finnish Helsinki Committee, and the Helsinki Committees of Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, and Italy. May 24-27, 1992: presentation of a commentary on the Lithuanian Draft Constitution in Vilnius, Lithuania, on behalf of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and the Finnish Helsinki Committee. November-December 1997: consultations for Luxconsult Belgique/European Commission concerning autonomy legislation for the territory of Nakhitsevan in Azerbaidzhan. September 2003: participation in round-table discussions in the OSCE/ODIHR delegation in Minsk, Belarus. PUBLIKATIONER - JULKAISUT - PUBLICATIONS Per 6 januari 2020 1. Guy-Erik Isaksson - Markku Suksi - Olavi Kaleva: Ändringssökande hos besvärsnämnden vid Åbo universitet. Meddelanden från Ekonomisk-statsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Åbo Akademi, Ser. A:172. Åbo 1982 (44 sidor). [Complaints Procedure at the Board of Appeals of the University of Turku] 2. Markku Suksi: Referenduminstitutet. Meddelanden från Ekonomisk-statsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Åbo Akademi, Ser. A:190. Åbo 1983 (103 sidor). [The Institution of the Referendum] 3 3. Markku Suksi: Folkomröstningsinstitutet. Allmän systematik och institutets tillämpning i Finland. Artikel i POLITIIKKA nr 4/1984, ss. 340-354. [The Institution of the Referendum: General Systematics and the Use of the Institution in Finland] 4. Allan Rosas - Markku Suksi (red.): INLÄGG KRING MEDELBAR OFFENTLIG FÖRVALTNING - PUHEENVUOROJA VÄLILLISESTÄ JULKISESTA HALLINNOSTA. Redigerade seminarieinlägg. Meddelanden från Stiftelsens för Åbo Akademi forskningsinstitut nr 104. Åbo 1985 (271 sidor). [Notes on Indirect Public Administration] 5. Markku Suksi: Medelbar offentlig förvaltning i de nordiska länderna. Ingår i Rosas - Suksi (red.): INLÄGG KRING MEDELBAR OFFENTLIG FÖRVALTNING. Meddelanden från Stiftelsens för Åbo Akademi forskningsinstitut nr 104. Åbo 1985, ss. 81-89. [Indirect Public Administration in the Nordic Countries] 6. Markku Suksi - Lars Westerlund: Rättskällorna inom medelbar offentlig förvaltning. Ingår i Rosas - Suksi (red.): INLÄGG KRING MEDELBAR OFFENTLIG FÖRVALTNING. Meddelanden från Stiftelsens för Åbo Akademi forskningsinstitut nr 104. Åbo 1985, ss. 257-268. [Sources of Law within Indirect Public Administration] 7. Allan Rosas - Markku Suksi: PGOs in Finland. Article in Hood - Schuppert (eds): DELIVERING PUBLIC SERVICES IN WESTERN EUROPE. SHARING WESTERN EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE OF PARA-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION. SAGE Modern Politics Series Vol. 16., London 1988, pp. 120-153. 8. Markku Suksi: Constitutional Developments in Finland. Article in BESTUURSWETENSCHAPPEN. Tilburg, the Netherlands, 1986, pp. 277-280. 9. Markku Suksi: Välillisen julkisen hallinnon rakenteesta. Artikkeli,