Mikael Jungner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Mikael Jungner

Finnish politician and manager

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1965

Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Profession: businessperson, politician

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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About Mikael Jungner

  • Mikael Jungner (born 20 April 1965, in Helsinki), is the former party secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, a member of the Finnish parliament, and a former managing director of the Finnish national broadcaster Yle. Junger grew up on the Finnish west coast in the city of Vaasa.
  • He started a five-year term as Managing Director of Yle on 1 May 2005.
  • Although he sought another term, the political board of Yle replaced him with Lauri Kivinen, a member of National Coalition Party, on 1 May 2010.
  • Jungner's term as the managing director of Yle is generally considered to have been a success.Jungner was the director of information society relations at the Microsoft Corporation between 2002 and 2004.
  • He was the former aide of previous Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen.
  • It is commonly understood that Lipponen helped Jungner to get the Managing Director's position in Yle.
  • In May 2010, Jungner was elected as the party secretary of the SDP.
  • Jungner's term proved to be a disappointment for the Social Democratic Party, which lost the 2015 elections. Jungner, who belongs to the right-wing section of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, is a regular writer in Libera's web-pages, a libertarian foundation co-ordinated with Mont Pelerin Society and manned with members known to finance National Coalition Party. Mikael Jungner was married to Yle presenter Maria Jungner 2007–2013.
  • Currently he lives with Emilia Poikkeus, who is 26 years his junior.

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