Erkki Liikanen

Finnish politician and central banker · Finland · On the map · Politicians · Born 1950 · age 76

Erkki Antero Liikanen is a Finnish social democratic politician, former European Commissioner and former Governor of the Bank of Finland.

Erkki Liikanen is read about 16 times a day, in 16 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 11 October 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 120 days, one point a day.

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A life in dates

2007Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of FinlandAward1994Commander First Class of the Order of the Lion of FinlandAward1989Commander of the Order of the White Rose of FinlandAward1982Knight First Class of the Order of the Lion of FinlandAward1950Born19 September 1950

People around Erkki

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Matti Louekoski Succeeded Erkki as Minister of Finance

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Awards

Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland2007

Commander First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland1994

Commander of the Order of the White Rose of Finland1989

Knight First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland1982

About this person

Since 2018 he has been chair of the Trustees of the IFRS Foundation and Chairman of the Board of the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics at University of Helsinki, and since 2020 chairman of Bruegel.

Country

Finland