Erik Olof Törnqvist (20 July 1915 – 23 October 2001) was a Finnish civil servant and diplomat.Törnqvist, Erik
in ''Uppslagsverket Finland'' . Törnqvist was born in

Alahärmä Alahärmä is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated, together with Kortesjärvi and Ylihärmä, to Kauhava on 1 January 2009. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region. The ...

. He graduated from high school in 1933 and as a bachelor of political science in 1937. Törnqvist began his career as actuary at the Finnish National Board of Customs from 1939 to 1940, then he was a researcher at the

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from 1940 to 1942, Secretary of the price council at the Ministry of Supply 1942–1945, Secretary of the Economic Council 1946–1947, Member of the Delegation for the War reparations Industry 1946–1948 and Economic Counselor 1947–1949. While in 1949–1972 he was the head of the Economics Department of the

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, he had several important positions at first in Finland, Secretary General of the Economic Policy Planning Council 1951–1953, Secretary of the Prime Minister 1953–1954, President of the Finnish Group in the 1956–1957 Nordic Committee of Economy,

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Division Chief

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1957–1959, United Nations Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Commission,

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, 1959–1961, UNTAB expert in

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1962–1963, chairman of the

Nordek Nordek (in Swedish: ''Organisationen för nordiskt ekonomiskt samarbete''. In Danish and Norwegian: Nordøk for ''Nordisk økonomi''. In Finnish: ''Pohjoismaiden talousalue'') was a planned organisation for Nordic economic cooperation similar to ...

delegation 1968–1970, member of the

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Executive Board in

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, 1970–1972, and career Ambassador to

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and Cuba from 1973 to 1978. He died in Helsinki, aged 86. Erik Törnqvist’s brother was professor of statistics

Leo Törnqvist Leo Waldemar Törnqvist (14 February 1911 – 18 April 1983) was one of the first professors of statistics in Finland, and the first to achieve international recognition. He taught at the University of Helsinki from 1943 to 1974, and developed tec ...

.''Facta 2001'', vol. 17, col. 322. WSOY 1985.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tornqvist, Erik 1915 births 2001 deaths 20th-century Finnish diplomats Ambassadors of Finland to Cuba Ambassadors of Finland to Mexico People from Alahärmä