Preceded by Matti Vanhala President Jacques Santer Spouse Hanna-Liisa Liikanen Succeeded by Olli Rehn Role Finnish Politician | Preceded by Martin Bangemann Name Erkki Liikanen President Romano Prodi Preceded by Peter Schmidhuber Education University of Helsinki | |
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Haastattelussa suomen punaisen ristin v istyv puheenjohtaja erkki liikanen
Erkki Antero Liikanen (born 19 September 1950) is a Finnish social democratic politician and the Governor of the Bank of Finland.
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- Haastattelussa suomen punaisen ristin v istyv puheenjohtaja erkki liikanen
- Career
- Literary work
- References
Career
Erkki Antero Liikanen obtained a Master's degree in Political Science (Economics) from the University of Helsinki in 1975. He was elected to the Finnish Parliament in 1972 when he was only 21 years old. Liikanen was appointed as the Minister of Finance in the Holkeri Cabinet in 1987. He left Parliament in 1990 to become the first Finnish ambassador to the European Union.
In 1994 he became the first Finnish Member of the European Commission. He was Commissioner for Budget, Personnel and administration, which included responsibilities for translation and information technology.
Liikanen has been Governor of the Bank of Finland since 12 July 2004. As such he also became a Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (2004–present) and Governor of the International Monetary Fund for Finland (2004–present ).
In February 2012, EU Commissioner Michel Barnier asked Erkki Liikanen to chair a group of experts to assess the need for structural reforms to the EU banking sector. Their works is known as the Liikanen report was published on 2 October 2012.
Liikanen was also the chairman of Finnish Red Cross between June 2008 and June 2014. He is married to Hanna-Liisa Liikanen and they have two daughters.[1]