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Risto Erkki Juhani Penttilä (born 17th March 1959, Pori, Finland) is a policy expert, former member of Finnish parliament, Director of the Finnish Business and Policy Forum (EVA) and Secretary General of European Business Leaders’ Convention.

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (International Relations), University College, Oxford University 1989
  • Master of Philosophy, University College, Oxford University 1986
  • Bachelor of Arts, Saybrook College, Yale University 1984

Penttilä was the first Finn to receive Bachelor's degree from Yale. In Oxford, he lived in the same room as Bill Clinton before him and Chelsea Clinton after him.

Career

Penttilä has worked for McKinsey, World Economic Forum and Oxford Analytica. He has been a columnist in International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, and Taloussanomat. He won Finnish Cup football championship in Lahden Reipas team in 1978.[1] In Yale, Penttilä was selected to the Ivy league football team.

In 1994, he and several other people founded Nuorsuomalaiset, a reform-oriented liberal political party. He was elected to the parliament in 1995 elections. The party failed in 1999 elections and was discontinued.

In European Parliament election 2009, he was a National Coalition Party candidate. Penttilä was endorsed by people such as former far-left leader Suvi-Anne Siimes, business leader Björn Wahlroos, ice-hockey coach Juhani Tamminen and Finnish design leader Lenita Airisto.[2]

Penttilä has proposed making English an "auxiliary language" in Finland. He has said: "A separate statute would specify for those foreigners who are living here - and those foreigners and companies who are moving to Finland - such areas, for instance of public administration, services, and taxation, in which documentation would also be printed and made available in English".[3] Penttilä has encouraged open discussion about pension reform in Finland.[4] Penttilä has argued that Finland should join NATO.

Books

  • Risto E. J. Penttilä: Historian roolipeli (Otava 2006)
  • Risto E. J. Penttilä: The Role of the G8 in International Peace and Security (Oxford University Press 2003).
  • Risto E. J. Penttilä & al.: Ultimatum isänmaalle. Nuorsuomalainen näkemys Suomen mahdollisuuksista (Otava 1994)
  • Risto E. J. Penttilä: Finland’s Search for Security through Defence 1944-89 (Macmillan 1991)
  • Risto E. J. Penttilä: Puolustuslinjat : puolustuspolitiikka Suomen kansainvälisen aseman vakauttamisessa 1944-67 (Otava 1988)

References

  1. ^ Suomen Cupin finaalissa 1978
  2. ^ Juhani Tamminen ja Suvi-Anne Siimes kannattavat samaa EU-ehdokasta. Pohjalainen
  3. ^ EVA's Risto Penttilä proposes English as an official "auxiliary language". Helsingin Sanomat
  4. ^ EVA:n johtaja haastaa ennakkoluulottomaan keskusteluun eläkeiästä. MTV3
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