Dr. Ormala was born 1950. He has his Dr.Tech. degree in 1986 from the Helsinki University of Technology.
    In 1987-1999 he was the secretary of the Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland. The Council is chaired by the Prime Minister with the task to give advi¬ce to the Government and administration in issues related to science, technology and innovation policies. In 1999 he joined the Nokia Group as a Vice President, Technology Policy. At Nokia his resposibilities cover technology policy, knowledge management, university co-operation, future watch and issues relating to the information society.
    He has published over fifty papers on evalu¬ation and innovation policies. He has been a consultant to a number of industrial companies, international organisations and European governments. In 1992-1993 he chaired the international expert group which carried out the evalu¬ation of EUREKA. Since 1994 he has been a member of the evaluation and monitoring panels of a number of the EU RT&D programmes. 1996-1999 he was the chair¬man of the OECD Work¬ing Group for Technology and Innovation Policy. In 2004 he chaired the Five-Year-Assessment group of the EU Research Programmes covering 1999-2003.