Olli Ilmari Rehn is a Finnish economist and public official who has been serving as governor of the Bank of Finland since 2018. A member of the Centre Party, he previously served as the European Commissioner for Enlargement from 2004 to 2010, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro from 2010 to 2014, and Minister of Economic Affairs in Juha Sipilä's cabinet from 2015 until 2016. Rehn ran for President of Finland as an independent candidate in 2024, but was not elected.
Rehn in 2023
Olli Rehn and José Manuel Barroso at the Santralistanbul
Olli Rehn giving a speech at 47th Munich Security Conference in 2011
Olli Rehn with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte in 2012
The Bank of Finland is the Finnish member of the Eurosystem and has been the monetary authority for Finland from 1812 to 1998, issuing the markka. It views itself as the fourth oldest surviving central bank in the world, after Sweden's Riksbank, the Bank of England, and the Bank of France.
Bank of Finland
Bank of Finland strong box which moved to Helsinki with the bank when it relocated from Turku
The Bank of Finland, Helsinki, with the statue of Johan Vilhelm Snellman by sculptor Emil Wikström in front