Dr Yrjo Pessi was born on 30 August 1926 in Kaukola, a municipality on the western shore of Lake Ladoga in former Finnish Karelia. He was the son of a farmer, inheriting his father’s interest in agriculture already during childhood. He died in Espoo at the age of 95 years on 2 December 2021. Yrjo Pessi became well known in Finland as Director General of Kemira Oy, a big industrial concern, producing among other things, fertilizers. In addition to his career as a nationally recognized industrial leader, he was - mostly unknown to the public - interested in international peatlands and had links with mire experts. Dr Yrjo Pessi was also actively interested in organisational work and left his mark on the Finnish Peatland Society, as well as the International Peatland Society and the Finnish Society for Peatland Cultivation.
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