Janne Hokkanen

Mr. Janne Hokkanen works as a Strategy Director at Lappeenranta-Lahti University ofTechnology (LUT) and LAB University of Applied Sciences. His primary tasks are followingthe implementation of university strategy and public relations in region, national andinternational level.Before his current job Mr. Hokkanen worked as Director of study and internationalaffairs at LUT. He has been building and running service oriented study serviceorganization, first at LUT only, then Saimaa UAS and LUT joint services and finally LUTand LAB joint services in two cities.Hokkanen also has extensive international experience from the university world. He hasbeen building several international cooperation between universities and has beenheavily involved in international student recruitment more ten years.He has also worked for executive education, international affairs at the university.Hokkanen has been working at LUT since 2001.Hokkanen has graduated from Lappeenranta University of Technology 1.3.2002. He hasMaster of Science (Tech) in the field of Industrial Engineering and Management. He wasvisiting student at University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) during the academic year1998-99.