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Finnish politician
Henrik and his wife Anna-Kristina Lax at their home, 2013
Henrik Lax (born Rolf Henrik Richard Lax on 6 May 1946 in
Helsinki ) is a
Finnish
politician and former
Member of the European Parliament with the
Swedish People's Party , Member of the Bureau of the
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sat on the
European Parliament 's
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs .
Lax was a substitute for the
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety , a member of the Delegation to the
EU -
Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and a substitute for the Delegation to the
EU -
Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
Lax was the Swedish People's Party's candidate in the
2006 presidential election . He finished 7th out of the 8 candidates, with a vote share of 1.6% (48,703 votes). After the first round, he joined the other centre-right candidates in expressing his support for
Sauli Niinistö in the runoff election between Niinistö and
Tarja Halonen .
Lax has argued that Finland would be better off if it sought membership of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization . He has argued that the time is now, and the option would not be available if the current peaceful situation changed.
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Education
Career
1969-1971: Research assistant with the national social science commission
1969-1972: Court practice, lawyer and prosecution
1971-1973: Industry's committee on taxation, legal expert and secretary
1973-1987: Oy Tampella Ab
legal expert, board and management secretary
head of subsidiary management
head of textile industry's tarpaulin sector
assistant director responsible for Group information activities and management training
since 1988: Governing board of life insurance company Suomi
since 1995: Governing board of Alko
Chairman of the Board of Celemi, Finland (learning solutions and projects for
change in large corporate organisations)
1987-2004: Member of
Finnish Parliament for the
Swedish People's Party
1991-2003: Chairman of Committee on Civil Law
1995-2004: Vice-Chairman of the parliamentary group
2000-2004: Member of the parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs
Vice-Chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs (2000, 2002,-2003)
2003-2004: Member of the parliamentary Committee on the Constitution
2002-2004: Member of the monitoring group on security policy set up by Prime Minister
Paavo Lipponen
1993-2005: Chairman of the Swedish Assembly of Finland
Military rank: Captain
Officer corps, French
Legion of Honour
Knight First Class of the
Order of the White Rose of Finland
See also
Trivia
Lax means
salmon in
Swedish
References
External links