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  Esko Aho
Esko Aho, statesman, born May 20, 1954 at Veteli, Finland knew the nickname "Kannuksen Kennedy" due to his streamlined and well coiffed habitus.
Aho is the former Prime Minister of Finland and the chairman of the Centre Party (one of the three major Finnish parties, somewhat on the conservative side of the centre).
Esko Aho retired from active politics in the early 2000s, initially through a "sabbatical leave" of one year to lecture at Harvard University.
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 Esko Aho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Esko Tapani Aho (born May 20, 1954) is a statesman and former Prime Minister of Finland.
Aho's government faced also the deep economic depression of the early 1990s.
Esko Aho lost the bid for President of Finland to Tarja Halonen in 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Esko_Aho   (297 words)

  
 Finland Head of State
Aho and his supporters painted a threatening picture of a Finland in which the president, the prime minister and the foreign minister were from the same party.
Esko Aho has the historical disadvantage of being prime minister between 1991 and 1995 when Finland experienced a deep recession.
Esko Aho in his dark suit and manicured nails is more of a Finnish Ken. He has also had minor plastic surgery done and during the campaign always had his wife Kirsti and especially the three-year old Pekka at his side.
www.nordicway.com /finland_head_of_state.htm   (777 words)

  
 Esko Aho   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Esko Aho is a statesman and former Prime Minister of Finland.
Aho was known by the nickname "Kannuksen Kennedy" due to his streamlined and well coiffed habitus, a comparison with United States President John F. Kennedy.
Ahois also the chairman of the Centre Party (one of the three major Finnish political parties, somewhat on the conservative side of the centre).
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/e/es/esko_aho.html   (135 words)

  
 HS Business & Finance 23.3.2001 - Esko Aho warns U.S. economy may affect Finland
Esko Aho, Chairman of the Centre Party, warns that the downturn in the economic cycle in the United States may have adverse effects on the Finnish economy as well.
Esko Aho is currently on leave of absence from his position as party Chairman and is studying and lecturing at Harvard.
Aho continues to be confident in the significance of the new economy, even if a large part of the companies in the business go bankrupt.
www2.hs.fi /english/archive/news.asp?id=20010323IE1   (371 words)

  
 Finland's Presidentical Election; New President
Aho is supported by 27 per cent of Finns, an increase of four percentage points since the last Gallup poll.
Aho's campaign, which was in obvious difficulty, has, over the past few days, gained significant support from the prosperous middle class and the business community.
Halonen defeated her rival, Esko Aho, leader of the Finnish Centre Party, in the second round of the presidential election by 51.6% of the votes cast to 48.4%.
virtual.finland.fi /elections/president2000/english/katsaus.html   (6584 words)

  
 The Brown Journal of World Affairs > Login
Esko Aho was first elected to the Finnish parliament in 1983 and is now serving his fifth term.
Aho quickly reestablished diplomatic ties with the Baltic states and with the rest of the former Soviet Union, stabilizing Finland’s position in northern Europe.
Aho’s government laid the groundwork for the friendly relations with the Baltic states that are now playing a role in the expansion of the European Union there.
www.bjwa.org /article.php?id=1s96U206eUL72S2NspNmoSyIjA7af6LtYzcydHD9   (252 words)

  
 Statistics Finland -
Esko Aho, the candidate of the Centre Party of Finland came second with 34.4 per cent of the votes cast.
The numbers of votes cast for Esko Aho and Tarja Halonen were considerably higher in the first round of the election than the numbers of votes cast for the parties they represent in the last Parliamentary elections.
The number of votes cast for Aho was 12.0 percentage points higher than that of votes cast for the Centre Party in the previous Parliamentary elections and the number of votes cast for Halonen was 17.2 percentage points higher than that of votes cast the Social Democratic Party in the Parliamentary elections 1999.
www.stat.fi /til/pvaa/2000/pvaa_2000_2004-05-31_kat_002_en.html   (458 words)

  
 Visit to Esko Aho's home
Kuin Esko ja Kirsti Aho kävivät Finnish Center at Saima Parkissa toukokuussa, Esko Aho oli kutsunut Kannuslaisen Erkki Tornikosken käymään vierailulla kuin hän viettää kesälomansa Kannuksessa.
Erkki ja minä kävimme Esko ja Kirsti Ahon kotona Kannuksessa.
Esko oli erittäin kohtelias ja ystävälinen ja pyysi meidät sisään kahville.
www.saima-park.org /activities/cultural/kannus_visit.htm   (386 words)

  
 Esko Aho
Aho responded to his country’s recession by implementing strong economic reforms and bringing Finland into the European Union.
Esko Aho became a Fellow of the Institute of Politics (IOP), at Harvard University, from 2000 until 2001.
Aho led a weekly study group on the European Union and its political and economic implications for global relations.
www.clubmadrid.org /cmadrid/index.php?id=743   (511 words)

  
 Statistics Finland -
Tarja Halonen beat her opponent Esko Aho in the second round of the Presidential election.
Aho had as many as eight strong constituencies where the number of votes cast for him was higher than for Halonen.
Compared to the first round of the election, the number of votes cast for Aho increased by 489,644 (by 14 percentage points) and for Halonen by 420,101 (by 11.6 percentage points).
www.stat.fi /til/pvaa/2000/pvaa_2000_2004-05-31_kat_003_en.html   (488 words)

  
 Esko Aho (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Speakers include Esko Aho, President of Sitra and author of the 2006 report on Innovation presented to the European Commission, as well as leading...
He was known by the nickname "Kannuksen Kennedy" due to his streamlined and well coiffed habitus, a comparison with United States President John F. Kennedy.
Aho is also the chairman of the Centre Party (one of the three major Finnish political parties, somewhat on the conservative side of the centre).
publicliterature.org.cob-web.org:8888 /en/wikipedia/e/es/esko_aho.html   (169 words)

  
 User:DudeMan - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Esko Tapani Aho (1954-2456) was Finnish politician, Prime Minister and 45th President 2410-2428.
Esko was best his class, when he have at least eight at test.
Aho inted, so Finland is kingdom year 2128, but he lost Presidentelection, with Matti Hautamäki, who turn out from Finland.
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 Esko Aho started as Sitra's new president
Esko Aho started his work on July 1, 2004 as new president of Sitra, when Aatto Prihti, the former president retired.
The Supervisory Board appointed Aho for the period 1.7.2004 - 31.12.2009.
Aho was the Chairman of the Board of Verbatum Oy, his own company focusing on corporate consulting.
www.sitra.fi /en/Media/mediareleases/release_2004_7_1.htm   (89 words)

  
 Aftonbladet nyheter: Wennman möter Esko Aho
Esko Aho tassar i filttofflor runt alla frågor – fem dagar före valet gäller det att inte stöta sig med väljarna.
Esko Aho är det norra, fattigare Finlands man, skogen och åkrarnas son, medan Tarja Halonen är storstadskvinnan, en dotter av Helsingfors med starkt stöd i landets södra delar.
Esko Aho levererar en del rätt färglösa svar den här dagen och det finns frågor jag aldrig får möjlighet att ställa.
www.aftonbladet.se /nyheter/0002/02/wennman.html   (1429 words)

  
 Esko Aho: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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www.encyclopedian.com.cob-web.org:8888 /es/Esko-Aho.html   (272 words)

  
 Finnish Literature Day
Also attending the Finnish Literature Day program was Esko Aho, prime minister of Finland 1991-95 and Centre Party candidate for president of Finland in the 2000 election.
Since last fall, Aho has been an adjunct lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he leads a weekly study group on the European Union and its political and economic implications for global relations.
Esko's opening address emphasized the need to accurately chronicle the history of the Finnish people in America, not only for the U.S. readers but, just as important, to tell the story to those back home in Finland as they are intensely interested in the paths of those who left so long ago.
www.saima-park.org /activities/cultural/finnish_literature_day.htm   (463 words)

  
 Aho, Esko Tapani biography - S9.com
Born: 1954 AD Currently alive, at 52 years of age.
1954 - Aho was born in Veteli, Finland on May 20, 1954.
2006 - Aho is the current president of Sitra, the Finnish National Fund for Research and Development.
www.s9.com /Biography/Aho-Esko-Tapani   (118 words)

  
 Interview: Esko Aho on creating an innovative Europe | European Union Science & Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Interview: Esko Aho on creating an innovative Europe
Following the Hampton Court summit, the Commission mandated a four-person group to consider what new efforts are needed in the field of research and innovation to achieve the Lisbon goals.
The former Finnish prime minister Esko Aho, who chaired the independent high level study group, explains to EurActiv.com what the 'pact for research and innovation', called for by the group's final report, means.
www.euractiv.com /en/science/interview-esko-aho-creating-innovative-europe/article-151827   (1135 words)

  
 CNN Transcript - World Report: Finland's Foreign Minister Vies to Be Finland's First Woman President - February 6, 2000
The dependent, Esko Aho, is the leader of the centrist opposition, and draws most of his support from the conservative countryside.
No wonder that Aho, married and a father of four, has attacked by campaigning on traditional family values.
AHO: We have a lot of problems with the education of children and young people with the values which we educate.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0002/06/wr.03.html   (530 words)

  
 No. 382: "Missing Inaction" - By Randy Cohen - Slate Magazine
"Esko Aho, the Finnish state-run petroleum company, announced that it was hiring U.S. TV sex-bomb Pamela Anderson Lee for a promotional campaign to encourage Finnish women to 'buy more petroleum products and be more sex-bomblike.' "—Ellis Weiner
"Esko Aho is the name Donald Trump has taken for his new life as a celibate Buddhist monk."—Daniel Radosh
Pokémon Esko Aho, shaped like a goat-headed fertility goddess, dispenses daily doses of Ritalin to the child and Prozac to the harried mother."—Tim Moriarty
www.slate.com /id/74637/sidebar/74647   (497 words)

  
 Investing in European Research - 2006 – Aho Group Report "Creating an Innovative Europe"
The Commission thus asked a small group of four high-level experts, chaired by former Prime Minister of Finland Esko Aho, to assess the situation and make proposals to boost Europe’s research and innovation performance.
The group issued its report on 20 January 2006.
Esko Aho (Chairman) - Former Prime Minister of Finland
ec.europa.eu /invest-in-research/action/2006_ahogroup_en.htm   (711 words)

  
 The Competitiveness Institute (TCI) - Aho Group Report
The European Commission - faced with the increasing challenges of globalization - set up in late 2005 a group of four high-level experts, chaired by former Prime Minister of Finland, Esko Aho, to assess the situation and make proposals to boost Europe's research and innovation performance.
Among the four expert is TCI Board of Advisors President Antoni Subira, former Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism of Catalonia and now Professor at IESE Business School (Barcelona).
They propose to focus on 4 areas: the creation of innovation friendly markets, strengthening R&D resources, increasing structural mobility as well as fostering a culture which celebrates innovation.
www.competitiveness.org /article/view/765/1/9   (309 words)

  
 The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Finland looks for research partners among varsities, businesses
— PHOTO: R. India and Finland should collaborate extensively in key areas of research and development and technological innovations, Esko Aho, former Finnish Prime Minister and president of the Finnish National Fund for Research and Development (SITRA), said on Friday.
The areas of collaboration could be information and communication technology, healthcare, biotechnology, life sciences and infrastructure development.
Aho was here as head of a high-powered Finnish delegation comprising directors of key innovation groups.
www.hindu.com /2006/11/04/stories/2006110404120500.htm   (590 words)

  
 Interview: Esko Aho über die Schaffung eines innovativen Europas | European Union Wissenschaft und Forschung
Interview: Esko Aho über die Schaffung eines innovativen Europas
Interview: Esko Aho über die Schaffung eines innovativen Europas[en] 
Der frühere finnische Premier Esko Aho, Vorsitzender der unabhängigen Sachverständigengruppe, erläutert in einem EurActiv-Interview, worin das Ziel des von der Gruppe geforderten "Paktes für Forschung und Innovation" bestehen würde.
www.euractiv.com /de/wissenschaft/interview-esko-aho-ueber-schaffung-innovativen-europas/article-151852   (1144 words)

  
 Japanilaisten patenttien käännös- ja tietopalvelutoimisto
Esko Aho and Co. (perustettu 1978, Y-tunnus 0364339-4)
Naruko Aho, Japanin kansalainen Fukuokasta, päätoiminen osakas heinäkuusta 2001.
Artturi Kanniston tie 7 A 15, 00320 HELSINKI
www.eskoaho.fi   (91 words)

  
 IEA - Events Juergen Stark and Esko Aho | Globalisation, euro
IEA - Events Juergen Stark and Esko Aho
Esko Aho, the former Finnish Prime Minister who brought Finland into the EU and championed the emergence of a modern, dynamic, knowledge-based economy in Finland, presented the findings of the recently published report: Creating an Innovative Europe.
The high-level report, Commissioned by the European Council at the Hampton Court Summit in October 2005, outlined a strategy to create an innovative Europe.
www.iiea.com /eventsxtest.php?event_id=195   (338 words)

  
 Sitra: EU invited Mr. Esko Aho to lead expert team
Sitra: European Commission invited Esko Aho to lead
European Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potoènik invited Sitra’s President Esko Aho to lead a group of experts on reinforcing EU research and innovation performance in the face of globalisation.
The purpose of this expert group is to provide the European Commission with advice and views on a number of issues relating to the reinforcement of EU research and innovation performance.
www.energy-enviro.fi /index.php?PAGE=128&COMPANY=enviro   (119 words)

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