Olli-Pekka Heinonen became Director General of the IB in 2021. Previously, from 2017, he was Director General of the Finnish National Agency for Education. Mr Heinonen was Minister of Education and Science (1994-1999); Minister of Transport and Communication (1999-2002) and a Member of Parliament (1995-2002) in Finland. From 2002-2012, he was Director of Yle, the Finnish national public broadcasting company, before joining the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office as State Secretary, and subsequently State Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Culture, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Development and Ministry of Finance of Finland.