EVA Business Fellows

EVA Business Fellows is a Programme for prominent business leaders who are from 30 to 40 years of age. In addition, a few representatives of politics, science and art are also invited to join the programme each year.

The aim is to contribute to participants’ understanding of the world as it is today, even beyond their – or their companies’ – daily sphere of action. At the same time the programme offers the participants a chance to meet not only each other but also some of the most influential Finnish and international business leaders, academics and politicians.

The participants are invited to a 3-day long seminar and other shorter meetings during the one-year-long programme.

2009

The second Business Fellows Programme was organised 2009, with the title “World is Changing – Are You Ready?”. Speakers included John Kao, Chairman & CEO of Kao & Co. Capabilities, Pekka Lundmark, CEO of Konecranes, Ivan Krastev, Chairman of Centre for Liberal Strategies and Kiti Müller, and Research Director in Brain and Work – research programme organized by Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. In addition Sixten Korkman, the Director of EVA and ETLA, spoke about the future of welfare state and Ilkka Haavisto, Project Manager of EVA discussed the changing morality in the market economy society. As icing on the cake, Marko Ahtisaari, CEO of Dopplr, argued for the experiental service’s connection to business competitiveness. In the interesting panel discussion “In what kind of world do the companies operate in the next decade?” participated Jaana Tuominen, Sari Baldauf and Pekka Haavisto.

2008

The Business Fellows Programme was first organised in 2008, with the theme “The Future of Capitalism”. Speakers included, but were not limited to, Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel, Roland Berger, the founder of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Mårten Mickos, Senior Vice President at Sun Microsystems and the founder of MySQL, Simon-Erik Ollus, Advisor and Economist at the East Office of Finnish Industries, and Paavo Lipponen, a former Prime Minister of Finland.