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On 16 September 1999, Mr. Erkki Liikanen was
appointed as Member of the European Commission responsible
for enterprise and information society.
Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Liikanen served
(from 1995 to 1999) as Member of the European Commission,
responsible for budget issues, personnel and internal
administration.
From 1990 - 1994 Mr. Liikanen was the Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary from Finland to the European Union.
During that period Finland negotiated the Accession
to the European Union.
Mr. Liikanen was elected to the Finnish Parliament
in 1972 at the age of 21. He served there until his
appointment at Foreign Office in 1990. From 1987 to
1990 he was Minister of Finance of Finland.
From 1976 to 1979 Mr. Liikanen was a Member
of the Supervisory Board of Televa corporation. He
then chaired the Supervisory Board of Outokumpu Corporation
(1983 – 1988).
Mr. Liikanen was Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary
Trustees of the Bank of Finland in 1983 – 1987
(also the decision-making body of the Finnish National
Fund for Research and Development (Sitra). In addition,
he was a Member of the Science and Technology Policy
Council of Finland in 1987 – 1990.
Mr. Liikanen has a Masters degree in political
science specializing in economics from the University
of Helsinki, Finland.
Mr. Liikanen is fluent in English, French and
Swedish, Finnish being his mother tongue.
Mr. Liikanen was born on 19 September 1950.
He is married and has two daughters.
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