Curriculum vitae 1 August 2021
Email: mikko.forss@helsinki.fi
Nationality: Finnish
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
February 2021 - present
Nikkilä health center, Sipoo (Finland)
General practitioner
Health centre work, including emergency, child health clinic and health centre ward patients
Work time 60%
Also worked the summer 2020 at the Nikkilä health center
January 2021 - present
Researcher, PhD Student
Hydrocele research, for more details see my Academic work
Work time 40%
December 2011 - present
Tänk, independent Finnish foundation (think tank) promoting evidence-based policy
Research Director and co-founder
Research director in projects related to various topics, including The Finnish Basic Income Experiment (see: ongoing and past research)
Media appearances, eg. interviews at Yle (TV), Talouselämä, Kauppalehti Optio, Yle (radio)
Lecturing (eg. at Sitra's leadership courses on sustainable economic policy)
Public debate (opinions, mostly in Finnish)
October 2009 - January 2013
Roubini Global Economics, macroeconomics research firm (London, UK)
Economist
Conducting macroeconomic research, focusing on the Nordics and the euro area
Econometric analysis and forecasting of several macroeconomic variables
Writing research pieces and identifying macroeconomic risks (see some of my research papers)
Advisor to clients and colleagues in Nordic issues; participating in conference calls with clients; replying to media requests
Media appearances (e.g. Bloomberg)
Following academic publications and journals related to macroeconomics
Hiring and managing interns
May 2008 - October 2008
European Central Bank (Frankfurt Am Main, Germany)
Statistician (intern)
Project on Long time series for selected euro area short-term indicators, conducted independently under the supervision of a mentor; a comprehensive written report and a presentation of the project’s results for ECB staff from different Directorates
Other separately assigned tasks at the section, such as assisting the Directorate's economist-statisticians in preparing calculations and presentations for meetings in international organisations
April 2007 - October 2007
Permanent Delegation of Finland to the OECD (Paris, France)
Economist (intern)
Regular participation in various OECD committees' work
OECD’s enlargement process: analysing political and economic data of potential new members; writing reports
Several reports and surveys on different topics; preparing Finnish positions
2005–2008
Statistics Finland - Business Trends (Helsinki, Finland)
Actuary / Statistician (Part time)
Producing trend indices and analysing economic development in different regions and lines of business in Finland
A report on comparing a part of the national accounting system and short-term economic trend indices
EDUCATION
2018–present
University of Helsinki (Finland)
PhD student
PhD student in CLUE Working group, leading a project on hydrocele treatment, supervised by Kari Tikkinen and Gordon Guyatt
2015–2020
University of Helsinki (Finland)
Licenciate of medicine (M.D.)
As part of my studies, I worked as junior house officer at neurology unit at Päijät-Häme central hospital (May 2018), at Urology unit Peijas Hospital (June 2019) at Helsinki City Hospital at Malmi (May 2019-July 2019)
2016-2017: Studying midbrain GABAergic interneurons in Esa Korpi's Neuropsychopharmacology research group besides medical studies
2014–2015
University of Helsinki (Finland)
PhD Student in Economics
Main research interests: health economics and economics of well-being
Research: Income does not predict subjective well-being of the poor and the rich (with Ohto Kanninen and Joonas Uotinen, Working paper)
2008–2009
London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
MSc in European Political Economy
Focus on: EU policies and institutions; European models of capitalism; EMU; politics and economics of social policy; Nordic labour markets (dissertation)
Final grade: Pass with merit
2002–2008
University of Helsinki (Finland)
Master of Social Sciences in Economics
Major: Economics (grade: 4/5, very good)
Minors: Mathematics and Statistics
Master’s thesis in public economics of education and pensions (grade: eximia cum laude approbatur, equivalent to 5/5, excellent)
Erasmus exchange in Université Toulouse I (France) in 2005
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Finnish (mother tongue), English (excellent), Swedish (fluent), French (good), German (basics)