Harri Hakanen

Harri is a tv professional who’s been working for the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) since the early 90’s as a radio DJ, producer, writer, host and director. With background in pop music journalism, he has won three ”Radio journalist of the year” –awards (Music & Media, Finland) and has for the past 10 years worked mainly on various television projects at Yle.

He is currently directing a TV documentary about the Finnish DJ icon Darude, who will represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest this spring.

Harri loves Asia and would very much like to learn to speak Mandarin properly some day.