20 Facts About Jorma Ollila

Jorma Ollila has been a director of Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd.

Jorma Ollila has received honorary doctorates from the University of Helsinki, Helsinki University of Technology and the University of Vaasa.

Jorma Ollila was active in student politics, for example as the chairman of the Finnish association of student unions in 1973 and 1974, and still today participates in Finnish political debate.

Jorma Ollila was appointed as chief of the mobile phones section in 1990, and CEO two years later in 1992.

When Jorma Ollila first came to power, the company had suffered from internal disputes and had a financial crisis of a number of years.

In 1999, Jorma Ollila considered taking part in the Finnish presidential election, following a request from Sauli Niinisto, a member of the National Coalition Party, who was at that time Finnish finance minister and who 12 years later became President of Finland himself.

Jorma Ollila said in a February 2011 interview with Finnish broadcaster Yle that he supported the Nokia-Microsoft partnership initiated by the CEO, Stephen Elop, and predicted the company's fortunes will strongly recover.

Siilasmaa claims that he believes Jorma Ollila played a part in the company's downfall.

Jorma Ollila was chairman of the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, the most reputed economic and social studies think tank in Finland.

Jorma Ollila is the first non-Dutch or non-British person to be the chairman of Shell.

Jorma Ollila is the first chairman chosen for this multinational corporation in its new corporate form of Royal Dutch Shell.

Jorma Ollila has been a board member in a number of companies, including Ford Motor Company.

Jorma Ollila was the chairman of the Finnish mining and metallurgy company Outokumpu from 2013 until 2018.

Jorma Ollila is a member of the steering committee at the Bilderberg Group.

Jorma Ollila participated in the 1994 conference and in every Bilderberg conference between 1997 and 2014.

Jorma Ollila had recruited four security guards for his book launch event in Helsinki in October 2013.

Georg Ehrnrooth and Jorma Ollila were fined for Luxembourg investments in 2014.

Jorma Ollila was fined 3,000 euros by Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority for failing to make a timely disclosure that he owns an investment company called Kestrel SA.

Jorma Ollila is based in Luxembourg and was worth 8.2 million euros at the end of 2012.

Jorma Ollila said that he had mistakenly neglected to disclose of the investment company and had not used the company to hold shares in firms where he has held executive positions.