An international award-winning documentary filmmaker with journalistic roots dating back to the early 1980s. In the 2000s, his documentaries and factual series on Finland's recent history, family entrepreneurship and the role of the private sector in society, as well as on the future of Finland have been broadcasted on all national TV channels, most of them on MTV 3 and Yle. His other documentaries, many of which have been personal portraits, have dealt with the situation in his family's other home region - the Middle East.