Tarja Kaarina Halonen is a Finnish politician who served as the 11th president of Finland,and the first and to date only woman to hold the position,from 2000 to 2012. She first rose to prominence as a lawyer with the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK),and as the Prime Minister's parliamentary secretary (1974–1975) and a member of the City Council of Helsinki (1977–1996). Halonen was a Social Democratic Party member of parliament from 1979 until her election to the presidency in 2000. She also served as a minister at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health from 1987 to 1990,as Minister of Justice from 1990 to 1991,and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 2000.
Taisto Kalevi Sorsa was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland three times:1972–1975,1977–1979 and 1982–1987. At the time of his death he still held the record for most days of incumbency as prime minister. He was also a long-time leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland.
Erkki Antero Liikanen is a Finnish social democratic politician and a former Governor of the Bank of Finland.
Eero Olavi Heinäluoma is a Finnish politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament since 2019. A former chairman of the Finnish Social Democratic Party,he was replaced in the party's leadership by Jutta Urpilainen in June 2008. He was Speaker of the Parliament of Finland 2011–2015.
Edelgard Bulmahn is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Member of the German Bundestag between 1987 and 2017. She was Federal Minister of Education and Research from 1998 to 2005. From 2013 until 2017 she was elected as one of the Vice Presidents of the Bundestag.
The University of Eastern Finland is a university in Finland founded in 2010 with campuses in Joensuu and Kuopio.
Jutta Pauliina Urpilainen is a Finnish politician. She was the first female chair of the Social Democratic Party of Finland,which she led from 2008 to 2014. She was the Minister of Finance as well as the Deputy Prime Minister of Finland from 2011 to 2014. Since 1 December 2019,she is the European Commissioner for International Partnerships in the European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen. She announced her candidacy for the 2024 election for President of Finland in November 2023.
Anu Helena Vehviläinen is a Finnish politician for the Centre Party who served as Speaker of the Finnish Parliament from 2020 to 2022. She has previously held various cabinet positions,including Finland's Minister of Local Government and Public Reforms in the SipiläCabinet from 2015 to 2019;Minister of Transport from May to June 2019;and Minister of Transport in the Vanhanen II and Kiviniemi cabinets from 2007 to 2011.
Sirpa Pietikäinen is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland. She is a member of the National Coalition Party,part of the European People's Party.
Matti Kalevi Louekoski is a Finnish politician and a lawyer as profession. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) and a former long-term member of the governing board of the Bank of Finland.
Lars Mikael Damberg is a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party. He served as Minister for Finance from 2021 to 2022. He previously served as Minister for Enterprise from October 2014 to January 2019 and as minister for home affairs from January 2019 to November 2021.
Kalervo Juhani Kummola is a Finnish ice hockey executive,businessman,and politician. He co-founded the hockey club Kiekko-67 at age 21,was later marketing director for HC Turun Palloseura,and chief executive officer of the SM-liiga. Becoming a board member of the Finnish Ice Hockey Association in 1975,he was elected vice-president in 1990,and served as president from 1997 to 2016. He helped organize multiple World Championships hosted in Finland,was an International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) vice-president from 2003 to 2021,and chairman of the Finnish Olympic Committee from 2005 to 2016.
Mahmut Özdemir is a German politician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013,representing the Duisburg II district.
Frank Heinrich is a German theologian,social pedagogue and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Matthias Bartke is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2013 to 2021. From January 2016 held the position of legal advisor and thus a member of the executive board of the SPD Parliamentary Group.
Marcus Weinberg is a German politician who served as a member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2021.
Timon Gremmels is a German politician in the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as the State Minister for Higher Education,Research,Science and the Arts in the government of Minister-President Boris Rhein of Hesse since 2024. From 2017 to 2023,he was a Member of the Bundestag for Kassel.
Eino Oskari Pekkala was a Finnish lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland,representing the Socialist Electoral Organisation of Workers and Smallholders 1927–1930 and the Finnish People's Democratic League 1945–1948. In the 1920−1930s,Pekkala was twice in prison for his political activities,and he was even kidnapped by the fascist Lapua Movement in 1930. As the political situation in Finland changed after the World War II,Pekkala was the Minister of Education 1945–1946,and the Minister of Justice 1946–1948.
Axel Helmut Schäfer is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Born in Frankfurt,Hesse,he has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2002.
Azadeh Rojhan Gustafsson is an Iranian-Swedish politician who serves as a member of the Swedish parliament.
