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Alexander Stubb Parents: Meet Göran Stubb and Christel Riitta Marianne Stubb

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Barbara Quarshie

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Alexander Stubb is a politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015. He is the son of Göran Stubb and Christel Riitta Marianne Stubb

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His father is a native Swedish speaker, while his mother spoke Finnish fluently. Stubb grew up speaking both languages.

Alexander Stubb ‘s father, Göran Stubb, is the Director of European Scouting for the National Hockey League (NHL).

FILE – Alexander Stubb of Finland delivers a speech at the European People’s Party (EPP) congress in Helsinki, Finland, Thursday Nov. 8, 2018. Stubb, who headed the Finnish government 2014-2015, and later was foreign minister, said Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023 he was “both honored and thankful for the trust bestowed upon me” that the Nordic country’s present Prime Minister Petteri Opo and Finland’s conservative National Coalition Party has asked him to run. The two-leg Finnish presidential elections are held in January and February 2023.(Markku Ulander/Lehtikuva via AP, file)

From 1961 until 1975, his father Göran Stubb was the chairman of IFK Helsinki before becoming the Managing Director of the Finnish Ice Hockey Association in 1976.

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Göran Stubb founded European Sports organisation, a European scouting organisation, in 1983 after acting as the Secretary General for the 1982 Ice Hockey World Championships at the insistence of Jim Gregory, then Director of NHL Central Scouting.

This was the NHL’s first significant European scouting association. Stubb was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame as a builder in 2000.

 

 

 

 


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