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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.
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][2]
He was appointed as director to the Bank of Finland in 1974 and was a member of its executive board since 1982.[3] 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.[2]
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.
- ^ a b "Ministerin tiedot, Lindblom, Seppo Olavi".
- ^ a b "Lindblom, Seppo (1935 - )".
- ^ "Board Members in the history of the Bank of Finland".