Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational telecommunications,information technology,and consumer electronics corporation,originally established as a pulp mill in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo,Finland,in the Helsinki metropolitan area,but the company's actual roots are in the Tampere region of Pirkanmaa. In 2020,Nokia employed approximately 92,000 people across over 100 countries,did business in more than 130 countries,and reported annual revenues of around €23 billion. Nokia is a public limited company listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki and New York Stock Exchange. It was the world's 415th-largest company measured by 2016 revenues,according to the Fortune Global 500, having peaked at 85th place in 2009. It is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.
Esko Tapani Aho is a Finnish politician who was prime minister of Finland from 1991 to 1995.
Juho Kusti Paasikivi was a Finnish politician who served as the seventh president of Finland from 1946 to 1956. Representing the Finnish Party until its dissolution in 1918 and then the National Coalition Party,he previously served as senator,member of parliament,envoy to Stockholm (1936–1939) and Moscow (1940–1941),and Prime Minister of Finland. He also held several other positions of trust,and was an influential figure in Finnish economics and politics for over fifty years.
Lauri Kristian Relander was the second president of Finland (1925–1931). A prominent member of the Agrarian League,he served as a member of Parliament,and as Speaker,before his election as President.
Risto Heikki Ryti was a Finnish politician who served as the fifth president of Finland from 1940 to 1944. Ryti started his career as a politician in the field of economics and as a political background figure during the interwar period. He made a wide range of international contacts in the world of banking and within the framework of the League of Nations. Ryti served as prime minister during the Winter War and the Interim Peace,and as president during the Continuation War.
VäinöAlfred Tanner was a leading figure in the Social Democratic Party of Finland,and a pioneer and leader of the cooperative movement in Finland. He was Prime Minister of Finland in 1926–1927.
The National Coalition Party is a liberal-conservative political party in Finland. It is currently the largest and the governing political party of Finland.
Johannes Virolainen was a Finnish politician and who served as 30th Prime Minister of Finland,helped inhabitants of Karelia,opposed the use of alcohol and created Mandatory Swedish in Finnish basic schools.
Jyrki Tapani Katainen is a Finnish politician who served as the European Commission's Vice-President for Jobs,Growth,Investment and Competitiveness from 2014 until 2019. Katainen was previously prime minister of Finland from 2011 to 2014 and chairman of the National Coalition Party from 2004 to 2014. He was succeeded by Alexander Stubb as chairman of Finland's National Coalition Party. After stepping down as prime minister,Katainen was elected as European Commission Vice-President in July 2014.
Sauli VäinämöNiinistö is a Finnish politician who served as the 12th president of Finland from 2012 to 2024.
Jorma Jaakko Ollila is a Finnish businessman who was chairman of Royal Dutch Shell from 1 June 2006 to May 2015,and at Nokia Corporation chairman from 1999 to 2012 and CEO from 1992 to 2006. He has been a director of Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd. since 1996 and UPM-Kymmene since 1997,and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg Partners,a New York–based boutique investment bank founded by Joseph R. Perella and Peter Weinberg in 2006.
Eero Olavi Heinäluoma is a Finnish politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament since 2019. A former chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland,he was replaced in the party's leadership by Jutta Urpilainen in June 2008. He was Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2011–2015.
Antti Kalliomäki is a Finnish politician and former athlete. Kalliomäki is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) and was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1983 until 2011. He retired from politics in 2011.
Göran Albert Casimir "Casse" Ehrnrooth,titled Vuorineuvos,was a Finnish magnate and former chairman of the Nokia Corporation. His business career began in the forest industry,and later he was a director of UPM-Kymmene and Merita-Nordbanken.
Reijo Mauri Matias Pekkarinen is a Finnish politician. He most recently served as a Member of European Parliament for Finland between 2019 and 2024. He is the Centre Party of Finland deputy and secretary,having served in various cabinet position in the Finnish government,including as Minister of Economic Affairs,Minister of Trade and Industry,and Minister of the Interior,as well as a member of parliament. He is known by the nickname "The Parliament Terrier".
The Finnish Banking Crisis of 1990s was a deep systemic crisis of the entire Finnish financial sector that took place mainly in the years 1991–1993,after several years of debt-based economic boom in the late 1980s. Its total taxpayer cost was roughly 8% of the Finnish GNP,making it the most severe of the contemporary Nordic banking crises. The crisis has been attributed to a combination of macro-economic turbulence,weak regulation,and bank-specific problems. Governmental intervention included bank takeovers,direct monetary assistance and temporary blanket guarantees to the banks.
Stephen Elop is a Canadian businessman who most recently worked at Australian telecom company Telstra from April 2016. In the past he had worked for Nokia as its first non-Finnish CEO and later as Executive Vice President,Devices &Services,as well as the head of the Microsoft Business Division,as the COO of Juniper Networks,as the president of worldwide field operations at Adobe Systems,in several senior positions in Macromedia and as the CIO at Boston Chicken.
Jarmo Viinanen is a Finnish ambassador to Sweden until 2016,and was President of the UNICEF Executive Board in 2013. In addition to this,Viinanen was,from 1997 until 1998,the First Secretary in the Foreign Ministry's Department of External Trade Relations. From 1998 to 2000,Viinanen was the Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Between 2000 and 2005,Viinanen served as the diplomatic adviser to Tarja Halonen,the 11th President of Finland,the Deputy Secretary General and Deputy Chief of Cabinet,as well as the Secretary-General and Chief of Cabinet to Halonen from 2005–2009. Between 8 April 2009 and 2014,Viinanen held a position as the Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations.
Mika Tapani Lintilä is a Finnish politician who served as Minister of Economic Affairs from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Centre Party,he has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1999. Lintilähas formerly served as Minister of Economic Affairs in the SipiläCabinet from 2016 to 2019 and as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of Finland in the Rinne Cabinet in 2019.
Pekka Lundmark is a Finnish business executive,and the president and CEO of Nokia. Previously,he was CEO of Fortum,a Finnish state-owned energy company,from 2015 to July 2020.
