Olli Rehn

Quick Facts

Full Name	Olli Rehn
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 31, 1962(1962-03-31)
Age	62
Birthplace	Mikkeli
Country	Finland
Birth City	Southern Savonia
Horoscope	Pisces

Olli Rehn Biography

Olli Rehn is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 31, 1962 in Mikkeli, Southern Savonia, Finland. Olli Ilmari Rehn ( listen (help *info ) born on 31 March 1962) is a Finnish politician who has been the governor of the Bank of Finland since 2018. As a member of the Centre Party, he served as Minister of Economic Affairs in Juha Sipila’s cabinet from 2015 to 2016 when he was appointed as the European commissioner for Enlargement between 2004 and 2010. He was also the European Commission in charge of Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro between 2010 and the year 2014.

After starting his political career, Rehn has not given his football career up, however he has played for team of the Finnish parliament as well as the European Commission. As a member of Finland’s Finnish the parliament, he was twice a part of the team to be the winner of the European Parliamentary Championship during the 1990s.

Rehn’s appointment to the enlargement post was seen as a slight disappointment for Finland, who had hoped for their nominee to be given a portfolio relating to economic issues. Enlargement was a central issue for the EU in the run-up to the landmark accession of ten countries on 1 May 2004, but has since declined in importance, if only slightly. Rehn presided over the accession of Bulgaria and Romania in 2007, as well as continuing negotiations with Croatia and opening them with Turkey, the latter being perhaps the most significant and the most hotly debated future accession.

Rehn served briefly on the Prodi Commission. He was appointed European Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society on 12 July 2004, taking over the role from the previous Finnish Commissioner Erkki Liikanen, who left his post the same day to become Governor of the Bank of Finland. The Finnish government nominated Rehn for the incoming Barroso Commission, which took office on 22 November 2004. He was the youngest member of the first Barroso Commission.

Born from Mikkeli situated in Eastern Finland, Rehn studied international relations, economics as well as Journalism in Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in the United States. He earned a master’s degree in political science at Helsinki’s University of Helsinki in 1989 and also earned a D.Phil. at St. Antony’s College, Oxford in 1996 , on the topic of “Corporatism and Industrial Competitiveness in Small European States”. Apart from his home language of Finnish and German the author speaks English, French, Swedish and a little Russian, Polish and Hungarian.

Olli Rehn Net Worth

Olli Rehn is one of the richest Politician from Finland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Olli Rehn 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He started his political career in the realm of youth politics, as a regular participant in the Finnish Centre Youth and soon was elected Secretary General for the Nordic Centre Youth. In 1987 the year he was elected the President of the Finnish Centre Youth. The position can be interpreted as a signal of high- level political responsibility in Finnish political life.

In 1988, Rehn was elected municipal councilor for Helsinki. He served as vice- president of the Centre Party from 1988 to 1994. He was also the president of the youth wing since 1987. He was elected into his seat in Finnish Parlament in the year 1991 Rehn headed his Finnish team to attend the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as well as served as advisor to the Finnish Premier Esko Aho between 1992 and 1993. He resigned from to join the Finnish Parlament in 1995 in order to be an MEP and was part of an affluent group. However, he was not re-elected in the election.

He was briefly the chairman of Veikkausliiga from 1996 to 1997. From 1998 to 2002 Rehn ran the office of Erkki Liikanen, Finland’s representative on the Prodi Commission. Rehn would later succeed Liikanen in the role of Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society. In 2002, he left European politics for the University of Helsinki, where he led the Centre for European Studies. In 2003, he became an adviser to the Prime Minister on economic policy, a position he held until his appointment to the European Commission the following year.

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Rehn was a candidate in the 2014 European election and was elected MEP. In the European Parliament he was elected to be one of the parliament’s 14 vice presidents.

Facts & Trivia

Olli Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Finland. Olli Rehn celebrates birthday on March 31 of every year.

In 2015, Rehn was elected in the Finnish parliamentary election with 6,837 votes. His term in the European Parliament ended on 27 April, when Rehn officially accepted the seat in the Finnish Parliament. On 29 May 2015, Rehn was appointed the Minister of Economic Affairs in Sipilä Cabinet. During his time in office, he oversaw the country’s emergence from a three-year recession thanks to a combination of tax and spending cuts. He also played a key role in persuading labor unions to agree to pay cuts to restore competitiveness.