Pekka Ravi

Pekka Tapani Ravi (born 26 November 1949 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish politician.

[1] Ravi graduated as a primary school class teacher in 1973 from Joensuu University of Applied Sciences and two years later as a Bachelor of Arts.

He worked at the Eno upper secondary school until 1976, after which he worked as a general teacher at a comprehensive school in Joensuu from 1976 to 1977 and as a class teacher in the same town from 1977 to 1990.

[1] Ravi was expelled from the Parliament in the 2003 Parliamentary elections, where the Coalition Party lost its only seat in North Karelia, but returned to the Parliament in the 2007 Parliamentary elections.

Mr Ravi is the longest-serving chairman of the Joensuu City Council.