Tuulia Hakola-Uusitalo is the Director General of VATT.
Before her nomination as the Director General, she was the Research Director at VATT (2023–2024) and Competition and Consumer Authority (2019-2023), head of the Structural Policy unit at the Ministry of Finance (2007-2019) and Chief Economist at the Finnish Centre for Pensions (2003-2007). She has also worked at the Uppsala University and La Universidad de Chile as well as at the World Bank.
She obtained her PhD in ecoomics from the University of Helsinki in 2002. Her thesis consisted of essays on the effects of the incentives on the timing of the retirement.