About the EBLC

The European Business Leaders Convention 2009 was organised in Helsinki in July. The summit was entitled “EUROPE IN CRISIS: Is There a Way Out?”. The EBLC participants included one hundred top executives, policy makers and opinion leaders from 25 countries.

Among the participants were Jorma Ollila (Chairman of Nokia and the EBLC), Alexey A. Mordashov (CEO, Severstal), Anatoly Chubays (CEO, RUSNANO), Win Bischoff (Former Chairman, Citigroup Inc.), Lars Nyberg (President and CEO, TeliaSonera AB), Ian Davis (Worldwide Managing Director, McKinsey & Company), Roland Berger (Chairman, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants), Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco (President and CEO, GE International), Craig Barrett (Retired CEO/Chairman, Intel Corporation), Peter Oppenheimer (Managing Director, Chief European Strategist), Björn Savén (Chairman, IK Investment Partners AB), Peter Straarup (CEO, Danske Bank Group) and Michael Treschow (Chairman, Ericsson), Nik Gowing (Main Presenter, BBC World News), Ali Babacan (State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey), Mark Leonard (Executive Director, European Council on Foreign Relations), Meglena Kuneva (Commissioner for Consumer Protection) and Olli Rehn (Commissioner for Enlargement).

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The European Business Leaders Convention (EBLC) is a forum for forward-looking discussion on Europe’s challenges and opportunities. Summits take place in Finland every two years. In the meantime, thematic meetings are arranged in different locations depending on the subject matter at hand.

The European Business Leaders’ Conference (EBLC) was organised for the first time in 2003. The international EBLC Council is chaired by Mr Jorma Ollila, Chairman of Nokia. Secretary General of the EBLC is Dr Risto Penttilä. The Convention is a not-for-profit initiative.