Seppo Lindblom

Seppo Olavi Lindblom (born 9 August 1935, Helsinki) is a Finnish banker and politician from the Social Democratic Party.^[1]

Seppo Lindblom in 1984

He is a son of trade unionist Olavi Lindblom, and his daughter is the educationalist and university rector Sari Lindblom.^[2]

Lindblom was Secretary of State 1968–1970 of Prime Minister Mauno Koivisto, and director of the Labor Movement Economic Research Institute 1970–1972 and a director in the Ministry of Finance of Finland 1973–1974. He became the Minister of Trade and Industry in 1972 and again from 1983 to 1987.^[1][3]

He was appointed as director to the Bank of Finland in 1974 and was a member of its executive board since 1982.^[4] Lindblom was appointed as the CEO of Postipankki in 1988, a post he had to leave in 1995 because of the difficulties during the Finnish banking crisis of 1990s.^[3]

In 2002, he completed a doctorate on social sciences with a thesis about the challenges of Nordic welfare state. He was the chairman of the board of Invest in Finland 2000–2004.