Dr Otto Kässi is a research fellow at Aalto University and the GEOCLOUD project. His work combines computational approaches with traditional social statistics to study the economic geography of cloud computing. He focuses on how government policies shape these technologies and how, together, they affect countries, firms, and individuals globally.
Otto’s research interests include labour economics and industrial policy. He has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Vili Lehdonvirta’s iLabour project and at Etla Economic Research, a private economic research institute in Finland, where he remains affiliated. He holds a Doctor of Social Sciences degree in economics from the University of Helsinki.