Seppo Lindblom

Finnish banker and politician

Seppo Lindblom in 1984

Seppo Olavi Lindblom (born 9 August 1935, Helsinki) is a Finnish banker and politician from the Social Democratic Party.[1]

He is a son of trade unionist Olavi Lindblom, and his daughter is the educationalist and university rector Sari Lindblom.[2]

Lindblom was Secretary of State 1968–1970 of Prime Minister Mauno Koivisto, and director of the Labor Movement Economic Research Institute 1970–1972 and a director in the Ministry of Finance of Finland 1973–1974. He became the Minister of Trade and Industry in 1972 and again from 1983 to 1987.[1][3]

He was appointed as director to the Bank of Finland in 1974 and was a member of its executive board since 1982.[4] Lindblom was appointed as the CEO of Postipankki in 1988, a post he had to leave in 1995 because of the difficulties during the Finnish banking crisis of 1990s.[3]

In 2002, he completed a doctorate on social sciences with a thesis about the challenges of Nordic welfare state. He was the chairman of the board of Invest in Finland 2000–2004.

## References

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1. ^ a b "Ministerin tiedot, Lindblom, Seppo Olavi".
2. ^ Kuka Kukin On (Who's Who) (in Finnish). Helsinki: Otava. 1978. p. 530. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
3. ^ a b "Lindblom, Seppo (1935 - )".
4. ^ "Board Members in the history of the Bank of Finland".

## Further reading

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* "Seppo Lindblom efterlyser industripolitisk debatt av vänstern". Forum (in Swedish). No. 1978–02\. 1978-02-08. p. 13\. ISSN 0533-070X.1978–02&rft.pages=13&rft.date=1978-02-08&rft.issn=0533070X&rft_id=https://forum-mag.fi/seppo-lindblom-efterlyser-industripolitisk-debatt-av-vanstern/&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Seppo+Lindblom" class="Z3988">`{{cite news}}`: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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