Harry Harkimo

Harry Juhani "Hjallis" Harkimo (born November 2, 1953 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish businessman, sportsperson, a member of the Finnish Parliament (Eduskunta) and a YouTuber.

In 1981–82, Harkimo was a crewmember on the yacht Skopbank of Finland in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.

From 1986 to 1987 he participated in a round-the-world single-handed yacht race, BOC Challenge, and finished third.

In 1989–90, he was a crewmember on the yacht Belmont Finland in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.

Harkimo was elected to the Eduskunta in 2015 with 11,416 votes in the election. Although he was elected representing the National Coalition Party, in 2018 he left the party and founded a new political movement, Movement Now. In the 2019 parliamentary election, Harkimo was elected to the parliament as the sole representative from Movement Now.

Harkimo is the chairman of the board of the Helsinki-based ice-hockey team Jokerit. He is also the developer of the team's home arena, Hartwall Areena, and an investor in sports.

Harkimo hosted the Finnish version of The Apprentice from 2009 until 2013. and made a one-season return in 2018.

In October 2017, Harkimo started to publish YouTube videos concerning politics, business, sports and other subjects.

In 2019 Harkimo bought the 49% share of Jokerit from Russians Gennady Timchenko and Roman Rotenberg, owners of Arena Events Oy. Harkimo sold 100% of Jokerit to Jari Kurri, long time manager of the club. Harkimo's intent was to exclude the club from the US sanction list based on the annexation of Crimea.

Harkimo married his first wife, MP Leena Harkimo in 1989, but they divorced in 2002. He later married MP Merikukka Forsius-Harkimo in 2004, but the pair divorced after a year of marriage. Harkimo has two sons from his first marriage and a third son from his second marriage.

Harkimo has been a vegetarian since the beginning of 2018.