Aatos Juho Michel Erkko (born 16 September1932 in Helsinki) is a Finnishjournalist and the main owner of SanomaWSOY and the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. He has a Master of Science degree in Journalism from the Columbia College of Columbia University. Erkko is married to Mrs. Jane Erkko. His father was the politician and journalist Eljas Erkko, and his mother was Eugenia Violet Sutcliffe.[1] Erkko's grandfather Eero Erkko was also a journalist and politician, best remembered as the founder of Helsingin Sanomat. is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Location of Helsinki in Northern Europe Coordinates: , Country Province Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki Charter 1550 Capital city 1812 Government - Mayor Jussi Pajunen Area - Total 187. ... For other uses, see Journalist (disambiguation). ... SanomaWSOY is the leading media group in the Nordic countries with operations in 20 European countries. ... Helsingin Sanomat is the biggest subscription newspaper in Finland. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ... Columbia College is the main undergraduate college at Columbia University, situated on the universitys main campus of Morningside Heights in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York. ... Helsingin Sanomat is the biggest subscription newspaper in Finland. ...
Erkko is one of the wealthiest people in Finland. He controls directly or indirectly 24.06% of the Sanoma-WSOY shares, amounting to more than 800 million euros at the current trading price (10 February 2007).[2] Considering that Erkko has other assets as well, it's possible he's a eurobillionaire. For other uses, see Euro (disambiguation). ... A billionaire is a person who has a net worth of at least one billion units of currency, such as United States Dollars (USD), Pounds or Euros. ...
The front cover of the privately circulated report of the 1980 Bilderberg conference in Bad Aachen, Germany. ... The Trilateral Commission is a private organization, founded in July 1973, at the initiative of David Rockefeller; who was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations at that time and the Commission is widely seen as a counterpart to the Council on Foreign Relations. ...
Dr. AatosErkko, one of the key figures in Finland's media business, believes that the office of the Presidency is becoming unnecessary, and that it could be abolished sometime in the future.
Erkko believes that the change could be implemented after the next two Presidential terms have passed.
AatosErkko brought out his views in a chapter he wrote in a book commemorating the 60th birthday of Dr. Kari Hokkanen, the editor-in-chief of the provincial newspaper Ilkka.
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