economist university professor
Kouri received his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974.
Kouri was the first Finn to get a scholarship to the United World College of the Atlantic. After graduating from there, he got his Master"s degree in economics from the University of Helsinki in 1970. In that same year, when he was 21 years old, he was hired by the International Monetary Fund.
lieutenant was at International Monetary Fund"s research organization where Kouri first met Michael G. Porter, an Australian economist, with whom he later developed the Kouri-Porter model.
He has served as a professor of economics at Stanford, Yale, Helsinki, and New York universities. Later he became known as a venture capitalist, for instance, he managed George Soros"s investments to Finland.
Today, he is remembered for his participation in the controversial "Kouri-deals" in the late 1980s. In the "Kouri-deals", a group of investors including Doctor Kouri collaborated to buy a majority of the two largest banks of Finland, mostly with borrowed money, causing a political outcry.
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Amiga, Incorporated.: Pentti Kouri was the chairman of the board.
Simply television Incorporated.: Pentti Kouri was a shareholder and chairman of the board. The company was acquired by WiderThan in 2004.
Nokia: Pentti Kouri was a shareholder and member of the board of directors. Hakia, Incorporated.: Pentti Kouri was a shareholder and member of the board of directors. Askar Capital: Pentti Kouri was a member of the advisory board.