Olli-Pekka Heinonen

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Olli-Pekka Heinonen
Minister of Education
In office 11 February 1994 – 14 April 1999
Preceded by	Riitta Uosukainen
Succeeded by	Maija Rask
Minister of Transport and Communications
In office 15 April 1999 – 3 January 2002
Preceded by	Kimmo Sasi
Succeeded by	Kimmo Sasi
Director General of the International Baccalaureate Organization
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 2021
Preceded by

Olli-Pekka Heinonen (born 25 June 1964) is a Finnish politician and public servant. During his career as a politician he represented the National Coalition Party.^[1]

Career[]

Heinonen was born in Eurajoki. He graduated as Master of Laws from the University of Helsinki in 1990. From 1994 to 1999, he served as the Minister of Education in the Aho cabinet and Lipponen I Cabinet after being assistant of Riitta Uosukainen, the previous Minister of Education. In 1995, Heinonen was elected to the Parliament of Finland from Satakunta. In the Lipponen II Cabinet, he served as the Minister of Transport and Communications from 1999 to 2002.^[1][2]

Heinonen left politics in 2002 when he was appointed a manager at Yleisradio, the public broadcasting company of Finland. He was responsible for the transfer from analog television to digital television in Finland. In 2012, he was appointed state secretary of Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen and in 2015 Heinonen became state secretary of all National Coalition Party cabinet ministers. In September 2016, he was appointed general director of the .^[2]

Since 1 May 2021 Heinonen is the new Director General of the International Baccalaureate replacing .^[3] This is the first time the International Baccalaureate appoints a Director General who has publicly held a political position before.

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