Olli Ilmari Rehn is a Finnish politician, a member of the Centre Party of Finland. He is current Governor of the Bank of Finland. Previously, he served as the Minister of Economic Affairs in Juha Sipilä's cabinet, as the European Commissioner for Enlargement from 2004 to 2010, and as the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro of the European Commission from 2009 to 2014.
“It may be that even a calm, neutral Finn cannot always hide all his emotions and feelings.”
On participating as a European commissioner in negotiating Turkey's membership during the British presidency of the European Union, 2005, quoted in Edward Stourton's Inside the British Presidency http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/insidebritishpresidency.shtml, BBC Radio 4, (27 February 2006)
