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Marjo Bruun: The new economy is a statistical challenge

Marjo Bruun, Director General for Statistics Finland, considers journalists to be the most important partners in the fight for honest words and digits.
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One minute interview

What book are you reading?

I am listening to Annika Sjögren’s ”Ur havet stiger vågorna”, and I am reading Isaac Asimov’s “Prelude to Foundation”. In the evening I read aloud from Minna Lindgren’s ”The End of Sunset Grove”. 

What is your favourite tool in the office?

The discussions with our experts and with people who belong to Statistics Finland’s broad network are very inspiring and give me new ideas.

What did you want to become as a child?

I loved and admired my grandmother, so I also wanted to become a grandmother. Today I have two wonderful grandchildren.

What is your hidden talent?

Perhaps not so hidden, but I am pretty handy – which often helps.

Facts about Marjo Bruun
  • Graduated from the University of Helsinki with a degree in agriculture in 1988.
  • Worked as a specialist and consultant in the private sector. Between 2007–2012, Marjo Bruun was Director General of the Information Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Tike).
  • She is the chair of the Conference of European Statisticians (CES) and its board, which answers to the UN’s Economic Commission for Europe until June 2019.   
  • Marjo Bruun became fascinated by science during her years in upper secondary education, especially mathematics and probability theory.
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