Johanna Laakso (born 1962 in Hämeenlinna) is a Finnish linguist and Finno-Ugrist based at the University of Vienna.
[2] Her doctoral thesis was on verbal derivational morphology in the Finnic languages.
[2] From 1987 onwards she worked as an assistant at the University of Helsinki, with stints as acting professor of Finnic languages in 1989–90 and acting professor of Finno-Ugric languages in 1991.
[2] In 2000 she moved to the University of Vienna to take up her current position as professor of Finno-Ugric studies.
[6][7] In a 2016 volume, Laakso and co-authors make the case that the European Union, European countries in general, and the Nordic countries in particular are failing to provide sufficient support for minority languages and their speakers, citing the cases of Meänkieli, Kven, Karelian and Estonian.