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Esko Aho (Esko Tapani Aho) was born on 20 May, 1954 in Veteli, Finland, is a Prime minister of Finland from 1991 to 1995. Discover Esko Aho's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 20 May, 1954
Birthday 20 May
Birthplace Veteli, Finland
Nationality Finland

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1954

Esko Tapani Aho (born 20 May 1954) is a Finnish politician who was prime minister of Finland from 1991 to 1995.

Aho was born in Veteli, Finland.

Prior to attending university, he began a career in politics.

1974

From 1974 to 1979, he was chairman of the Finnish Centre Youth, many of whose previous chairmen had risen to high political positions.

1978

In 1978, he became a presidential elector, a position he also held in 1982 and 1998.

1979

From 1979 to 1980, Aho was political secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1980

From 1980 to 1983, he was a trade promoter for the municipality of Kannus.

1981

Aho studied at the University of Helsinki, receiving a Master of Social Science in 1981.

1983

Aho was first elected to the Finnish Parliament (eduskunta) in 1983.

1990

He became chairman of the Centre Party in 1990, a position that he held until 2002.

The party was at the time one of three major political parties in Finland.

At 36 years of age, he was the youngest prime minister in Finnish history.

Aho's government also faced the deep economic depression of the early 1990s.

Despite a steep rise in the national debt, the Aho government applied a stringent policy of austerity that made it unpopular.

1991

Aho was the prime minister of a centre-right coalition government (Centre Party, National Coalition Party, Christian Democrats and Swedish People's Party) from 1991 to 1995.

He is best known for leading Finland into the European Union.

Aho's own party, most of whose voters lived and live in rural areas, was the most opposed to EU membership among major parties.

The greatest concern of these voters was the EU's effect on Finnish agriculture, but they were persuaded to support membership due to the prime minister's diplomacy.

1992

Finland applied for EU membership on 16 March 1992, and a referendum was held two and a half years later.

1995

This partly caused its fall in the 1995 election and the Centre Party's eight-year period in the opposition.

Aho had the nickname "Kennedy of Kannus" Kannus being his hometown) due to his streamlined and well coiffed habitus reminiscent of John F. Kennedy.

2000

Esko Aho lost the bid for President of Finland to Tarja Halonen in 2000.

He subsequently retired from active politics, initially in the form of a "sabbatical leave" of one year, during which he led a study group on the EU in the 2000 fall semester at Harvard University (where he was a resident fellow at the Institute of Politics).

2003

In the 2003 election he left parliament and retired from daily politics.

He then served as the president of the Finnish national innovation fund SITRA (the Finnish National Fund for Research and Development).

2008

In 2008, Aho's name was included in an opinion poll on possible presidential candidates, in which he ranked last.

On 1 November 2008, Aho became Nokia's executive vice president of corporate relations and responsibility and became a member of its executive board.

At the time of his rise to prime minister, he was the youngest head of government in Europe.

2010

Since 2010 he has been a member of the board of the Skolkovo Innovation Center.

Currently, he is a visiting professor at Sciences Po, Paris.

2016

Aho became a member of the board of directors of the Russian Sberbank in 2016.

He resigned from the position in February 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.