Tero Ojanperä to leave Nokia

Nokia Corporation
Stock exchange release
August 31, 2011 at 11.00 (CET +1)

Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced today that Tero Ojanperä, Executive Vice
President and a member of the Nokia Leadership Team, will leave Nokia and resign
from the Nokia Leadership Team at the end of his contract on September 30, 2011.

Tero, who currently serves as Executive Sponsor of Nokia's Bridge program, has
been with Nokia for 21 years and has been a member of the Nokia Leadership Team
since 2005. He will take on a new role as Managing Partner of a new investment
fund Vision+.

"I have enjoyed more than 20 years at Nokia.  I'm proud to have played a role in
the company which has changed - and continues to change - the lives of so many
people around the world through mobile technology," says Ojanperä. "Looking
ahead, I'm excited to lead the work for the Vision+, which seeks to help
communities turn creativity and innovation into products."

"While at Nokia, Tero made significant contributes through his role as Chief
Technology Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Head of Research, and most recently
as Executive Vice President of Services where he helped to support and advance
developers, entrepreneurs and local communities," said Stephen Elop, CEO and
president of Nokia. "As he transitions to lead Vision+, Tero will have the
opportunity to continue making a positive impact with the technology community
and Nokia, and we very much look forward to supporting Tero in this new role."

About Nokia
Nokia is committed to connecting people to what matters to them by combining
advanced mobile technology with personalized services. More than 1.3 billion
people connect to one another with a Nokia, from our most affordable voice-
optimized mobile phones to advanced Internet-connected smartphones sold in
virtually every market in the world. Through our services, people also enjoy
access to maps and navigation on mobile, a rapidly expanding applications store,
a growing catalog of digital music, and more. Nokia's NAVTEQ is a leader in
comprehensive digital mapping and navigation services, and Nokia Siemens
Networks is one of the leading providers of telecommunications infrastructure
hardware, software and professional services globally.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
It should be noted that certain statements herein which are not historical facts
are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, those regarding:
A) the expected plans and benefits of our strategic partnership with Microsoft
to combine complementary assets and expertise to form a global mobile ecosystem
and to adopt Windows Phone as our primary smartphone platform; B) the timing and
expected benefits of our new strategy, including expected operational and
financial benefits and targets as well as changes in leadership and operational
structure; C) the timing of the deliveries of our products and services; D) our
ability to innovate, develop, execute and commercialize new technologies,
products and services; E) expectations regarding market developments and
structural changes; F) expectations and targets regarding our industry volumes,
market share, prices, net sales and margins of products and services; G)
expectations and targets regarding our operational priorities and results of
operations; H) expectations and targets regarding collaboration and partnering
arrangements; I) the outcome of pending and threatened litigation; J)
expectations regarding the successful completion of acquisitions or
restructurings on a timely basis and our ability to achieve the financial and
operational targets set in connection with any such acquisition or
restructuring; and K) statements preceded by "believe," "expect," "anticipate,"
"foresee," "target," "estimate," "designed," "plans," "will" or similar
expressions. These statements are based on management's best assumptions and
beliefs in light of the information currently available to it. Because they
involve risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from the
results that we currently expect. Factors that could cause these differences
include, but are not limited to: 1) our ability to succeed in creating a
competitive smartphone platform for high-quality differentiated winning
smartphones or in creating new sources of revenue through our partnership with
Microsoft; 2) the expected timing of the planned transition to Windows Phone as
our primary smartphone platform and the introduction of mobile products based on
that platform; 3) our ability to maintain the viability of our current Symbian
smartphone platform during the transition to Windows Phone as our primary
smartphone platform; 4) our ability to realize a return on our investment in
MeeGo and next generation devices, platforms and user experiences; 5) our
ability to build a competitive and profitable global ecosystem of sufficient
scale, attractiveness and value to all participants and to bring winning
smartphones to the market in a timely manner; 6) our ability to produce mobile
phones in a timely and cost efficient manner with differentiated hardware,
localized services and applications; 7) our ability to increase our speed of
innovation, product development and execution to bring new competitive
smartphones and mobile phones to the market in a timely manner; 8) our ability
to retain, motivate, develop and recruit appropriately skilled employees; 9) our
ability to implement our strategies, particularly our new mobile product
strategy; 10) the intensity of competition in the various markets where we do
business and our ability to maintain or improve our market position or respond
successfully to changes in the competitive environment; 11) our ability to
maintain and leverage our traditional strengths in the mobile product market if
we are unable to retain the loyalty of our mobile operator and distributor
customers and consumers as a result of the implementation of our new strategy or
other factors; 12) our success in collaboration and partnering arrangements with
third parties, including Microsoft; 13) the success, financial condition and
performance of our suppliers, collaboration partners and customers; 14) our
ability to source sufficient quantities of fully functional quality components,
subassemblies and software on a timely basis without interruption and on
favorable terms, including the disruption of production and/or deliveries from
any of our suppliers as a result of adverse conditions in the geographic areas
where they are located; 15) our ability to manage efficiently our manufacturing,
service creation, delivery and logistics without interruption; 16) our ability
to ensure the timely delivery of sufficient volumes of products that meet our
and our customers' and consumers' requirements and manage our inventory and
timely adapt our supply to meet changing demands for our products; 17) any
actual or even alleged defects or other quality, safety and security issues in
our products; 18) any actual or alleged loss, improper disclosure or leakage of
any personal or consumer data collected or made available to us or stored in or
through our products; 19) our ability to successfully manage costs, including
our ability to achieve targeted costs reductions and to effectively and timely
execute related restructuring measures, including personnel reductions; 20) our
ability to effectively and smoothly implement the new operational structure for
our devices and services business effective April 1, 2011; 21) the development
of the mobile and fixed communications industry and general economic conditions
globally and regionally; 22) exchange rate fluctuations, including, in
particular, fluctuations between the euro, which is our reporting currency, and
the US dollar, the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan, as well as certain other
currencies; 23) our ability to protect the technologies, which we or others
develop or that we license, from claims that we have infringed third parties'
intellectual property rights, as well as our unrestricted use on commercially
acceptable terms of certain technologies in our products and services; 24) our
ability to protect numerous Nokia, NAVTEQ and Nokia Siemens Networks patented,
standardized or proprietary technologies from third-party infringement or
actions to invalidate the intellectual property rights of these technologies;
25) the impact of changes in government policies, trade policies, laws or
regulations and economic or political turmoil in countries where our assets are
located and we do business; 26) any disruption to information technology systems
and networks that our operations rely on; 27) unfavorable outcome of
litigations; 28) allegations of possible health risks from electromagnetic
fields generated by base stations and mobile products and lawsuits related to
them, regardless of merit; 29) our ability to achieve targeted costs reductions
and increase profitability in Nokia Siemens Networks and to effectively and
timely execute related restructuring measures; 30) Nokia Siemens Networks'
ability to maintain or improve its market position or respond successfully to
changes in the competitive environment; 31) Nokia Siemens Networks' liquidity
and its ability to meet its working capital requirements; 32) whether Nokia
Siemens Networks is able to successfully integrate the acquired assets of
Motorola Solutions' networks business, retain existing customers of the acquired
business, cross-sell Nokia Siemens Networks' products and services to customers
of the acquired business and otherwise realize the expected synergies and
benefits of the acquisition; 33) Nokia Siemens Networks' ability to timely
introduce new products, services, upgrades and technologies; 34) Nokia Siemens
Networks' success in the telecommunications infrastructure services market and
Nokia Siemens Networks' ability to effectively and profitably adapt its business
and operations in a timely manner to the increasingly diverse service needs of
its customers; 35) developments under large, multi-year contracts or in relation
to major customers in the networks infrastructure and related services business;
36) the management of our customer financing exposure, particularly in the
networks infrastructure and related services business; 37) whether ongoing or
any additional governmental investigations into alleged violations of law by
some former employees of Siemens AG may involve and affect the carrier-related
assets and employees transferred by Siemens AG to Nokia Siemens Networks; 38)
any impairment of Nokia Siemens Networks customer relationships resulting from
ongoing or any additional governmental investigations involving the Siemens
carrier-related operations transferred to Nokia Siemens Networks; as well as the
risk factors specified on pages 12-39 of Nokia's annual report Form 20-F for the
year ended December 31, 2010 under Item 3D. "Risk Factors." Other unknown or
unpredictable factors or underlying assumptions subsequently proving to be
incorrect could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the
forward-looking statements. Nokia does not undertake any obligation to publicly
update or revise forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent legally required.

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