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Olli-Pekka Heinonen

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Born25 June 1964
Nationality Finnish
Alma mater University of Helsinki
Finnish politician and civil servant. Attended Bilderberg/2001 as Minister of Communications, when the Finnish state telecom invested billions in Germany - which later turned out to be wasted.

Employment.png State Secretary of the Prime Minister

In office
March 2012 - June 2014,
EmployerJyrki Katainen

Employment.png Director

In office
February 2002 - March 2012
EmployerYLE
Bilderberger

Employment.png Finland/Minister/Transport and Communications

In office
April 15, 1999 - January 3, 2002

Employment.png Finland/Minister/Education

In office
February 11, 1994 - April 14, 1999

Employment.png Member of the Finnish Parliament

In office
24 March 1995 - 31 January 2002

Not to be confused with Olli Heinonen, a International Atomic Energy Agency official and fellow Bilderberger.

Olli-Pekka Heinonen is a Finnish communications director, politician and former civil servant. He attended Bilderberg/2001 as Minister of Communications, when the Finnish state telecom invested billions in Germany - which later turned out to be wasted. From March 2012 to June 2014, Heinonen worked as State Secretary to Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen. He also continued in office during Alexander Stubb's term as prime minister. Heinonen was Executive Director of the National Board of Education from 2016 to 2021.

Career

Heinonen graduated with a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Helsinki in 1990. In 1990–1991 he worked as the planning secretary of the Coalition Party's parliamentary group and in 1991–1994 as a special assistant to the Minister of Education Riitta Uosukainen.

From 1994 to 1999, he worked as the Minister of Education in the Aho cabinet and Lipponen I Cabinet after being assistant of Riitta Uosukainen, the previous Minister of Education. In 1995, Heinonen was elected to the Parliament of Finland from Satakunta. In the Lipponen II Cabinet, he was the Minister of Transport and Communications from 1999 to 2002.[1][2]

Worthless investments

When Heinonen was the Minister of Transport, Sonera bought 3G rights in Germany for approximately EUR 3.5 billion in certain frequency bands. These later proved worthless. State ownership in Sonera was held by the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Chancellor of Justice Paavo Nikula investigated Sonera's transactions and the activities of the Board in the autumn of 2002. In his conclusion, he stated that the ministers or officials of the Ministries of Transport and Communications did not violate their official duties or acted illegally. The report did not reveal that the transactions had been discussed within the Board of Directors or between the Board of Directors and Sonera's representatives.[3]

Heinonen had the greatest responsibility in the affair and announced in October 2001 that he would leave politics.

Later Career

In February 2002, he became the director of the state broadcaster YLE's Finnish-language television. He was responsible for the transfer from analog television to digital television in Finland.

Heinonen became Director of Yle Publications in 2011 in connection with the company's organizational reform. In January 2012, he announced that he would leave YLE and become Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen's state secretary. Heinonen started on March 1, 2012 as Katainen's state secretary.

In May 2015, Heinonen became state secretary of all National Coalition Party cabinet ministers. In October 2016, Heinonen was elected Director General of the National Board of Education.

Since 1 May 2021 Heinonen is the new Director General of the International Baccalaureate replacing Dr. Siva Kumari[4]. This is the first time the International Baccalaureate appoints a Director General who has publicly held a political position before.


 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/200124 May 200127 May 2001Sweden
Stenungsund
The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW.
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