Simo Rundgren | |
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Member of Finnish Parliament | |
In office 19 March 2003 –20 March 2007 | |
In office 20 April 2011 –21 April 2015 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Kolari,Finland | 28 June 1953
Political party | Centre Party |
Simo Arttur Rundgren (born 28 June 1953 in Kolari,Finland) is a Finnish politician. He was elected to the Finnish Parliament from Lapland (electoral district) in 2003 and again in 2011. He has a master's degree in Theology and he has worked as a pastor/vicar from 1982 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2003. Rundgren worked as an Executive Director of Finnish Centre Youth from 1974 to 1976. [1]
In 2005,he was elected chairman of the Nordic Cultural Fund for the 2006–2007 term. [2]
In the midst of bankruptcy at the Kaunisvaara mine in Sweden,Rundgren advocated for the construction of a railway between the mine and Kolari to increase its financial solvency. [3]