Erkki Liikanen
| Erkki Antero Liikanen | |
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| Governor of Bank of Finland | |
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Assumed office 12 July 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Matti Vanhala |
| European Commissioner for Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs | |
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In office 17 September 1999 – 11 July 2004 |
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| President | Romano Prodi |
| Preceded by | Martin Bangemann |
| Succeeded by | Olli Rehn |
| European Commissioner for Budget, Personnel and administration | |
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In office 25 January 1995 – 17 September 1999 |
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| President | Jacques Santer |
| Preceded by | Peter Schmidhuber |
| Succeeded by | Michaele Schreyer |
| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 30 April 1987 – 28 February 1990 |
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| Prime Minister | Harri Holkeri |
| Preceded by | Esko Ollila |
| Succeeded by | Matti Louekoski |
| Member of Parliament | |
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In office 22 January 1972 – 31 August 1990 |
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| Constituency | Mikkeli district |
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19 September 1950 Mikkeli, Finland |
| Nationality | Finnish |
| Occupation | Governor of the Bank of Finland |
Erkki Antero Liikanen (born 19 September 1950) is a Finnish social democratic politician and the Governor of the Bank of Finland.
Erkki Antero Liikanen obtained a Bachelor'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. 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 has been the chairman of Finnish Red Cross since June 2008. He is married to Hanna-Liisa Liikanen and they have two daughters.[1]
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