13 Facts About Erkki Tuomioja

Erkki Sakari Tuomioja was born on 1 July 1946 and is a Finnish politician and has previously been a member of the Finnish Parliament.

Erkki Tuomioja was president of the Nordic Council in 2008.

In 1975, Erkki Tuomioja dated Tarja Halonen who later became the president of Finland.

Erkki Tuomioja's father Sakari Tuomioja was a prominent liberal Finnish politician and diplomat, and the challenger of Urho Kekkonen for the conservatives and liberals in the 1956 presidential elections.

Erkki Tuomioja's maternal grandmother was Hella Wuolijoki, the Estonian born writer and socialist activist.

Erkki Tuomioja holds the degrees of Master of Social Sciences and Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration from the Helsinki School of Economics, as well as Licentiate in Social Sciences and Doctor in Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki.

Erkki Tuomioja held the position of minister of trade and industry in Lipponen's 2nd government, and became the minister of foreign affairs after Tarja Halonen was elected as president of Finland.

Erkki Tuomioja is the longest serving minister for foreign affairs of Finland.

Erkki Tuomioja was a member of the anti-war group Committee of 100 of Finland and took part in the so-called Erik Schuller case, in which a group of students made public incitement against obligatory conscription.

Erkki Tuomioja was behind the initiative to establish Historians without Borders in Finland as an NGO.

Erkki Tuomioja has acted as Chairman of the Board of HWB Finland since the founding meeting in the summer of 2015.

When Finland held the rotating European Union presidency in the second half of 2006, Erkki Tuomioja had a prominent role as the spokesman of European Union foreign policy.

Erkki Tuomioja was one of Finland's most dominant politicians in the 1990s.