Bo Lönnqvist

Description

An "Espoolainen" since birth with a warm feeling for the city. My family includes my wife (special needs teacher), two adult children and our dog, a 14-year-old lagotto. During the children's school years, I worked as a class father for 10 years in a row, for a while for 2 classes at the same time. This gave me insight into how important it is for parents to also get involved in the school world - according to their own ability. For the past 10 years, I have worked as a mentor for students at Aalto University, something I have found to be very rewarding.

I have a masters degree in engineering and have solid leadership experience in the technology industry for more than 30 years. Technology, innovations and economics are therefore close to me and especially how important it is for us in Finland that we have a good, equal and encouraging school for everyone.

I have been involved in municipal politics since 2012 - somewhat since 2008 as the chairman of a school board. I have been both a member and deputy member of the council, a member and chairman of the Svenska Rum committee, a committee member of the Finnish Committee for education and childcare and a board member of Prakticum. In addition, I served as chairman of SFP i Esbo for 4 years (2015-2019) and was a district board member of SFP i Nyland 2017-2019.