Seppo Olavi Lindblom (born 9 August 1935,

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) is a Finnish banker and politician from the

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. He is a son of trade unionist Olavi Lindblom, and his daughter is the educationalist and university rector Sari Lindblom. Lindblom was Secretary of State 1968–1970 of Prime Minister

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, and director of the Labor Movement Economic Research Institute 1970–1972 and a director in the Ministry of Finance of Finland 1973–1974. He became the Minister of Trade and Industry in 1972 and again from 1983 to 1987. He was appointed as director to the

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in 1974 and was a member of its executive board since 1982. Lindblom was appointed as the CEO of Postipankki in 1988, a post he had to leave in 1995 because of the difficulties during the

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. In 2002, he completed a doctorate on social sciences with a thesis about the challenges of Nordic welfare state. He was the chairman of the board of Invest in Finland 2000–2004.

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