1967: English and comparative law, City of London College
1969: Degree in law from Helsinki University
1972: Deputy district judge
1973: Degree in economics, Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki
1980: Management, Institute of Leadership, Stockholm.
Lax was the Swedish People"s Party"s candidate in the 2006 presidential election. 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.
1967: English and comparative law, City of London College 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) 1991-2003: Chairman of Committee on Civil Law 1995-2004: Vice-Chairman of the parliamentary group Vice-Chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs (2000, 2002,-2003) 1993-2005: Chairman of the Swedish Assembly of Finland Military rank: Captain.
Lax was a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, a member of the Delegation to the European Union-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and a substitute for the Delegation to the European Union-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. 1987-2004: Member of Finnish Parliament for the Swedish People"s Party
2000-2004: Member of the parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs
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.
