Ville Skinnari | |
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Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade | |
In office 6 June 2019 –20 June 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Antti Rinne Sanna Marin |
Preceded by | Anne-Mari Virolainen |
Succeeded by | Ville Tavio |
Personal details | |
Born | Lahti,Päijänne Tavastia,Finland | 21 February 1974
Political party | Social Democratic Party |
Ville Skinnari (born 21 February 1974) is a Finnish politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade in the cabinet of Prime Minister Antti Rinne and then in the cabinet of Prime Minister Sanna Marin from 2019 to 2023.
Skinnari is a former professional ice hockey player who played in the Finnish Elite League for the club Reipas Lahti,in the Netherlands for the club Dordrecht Lions,and for the Coventry club Solihull Blaze in the British National League. [1]
From 1995 until 1999,Skinnari worked as a freelance journalist in Japan,the Netherlands,and the United Kingdom.
Skinnari was elected to the Finnish Parliament for the Social Democratic Party in 2015,from the constituency of Häme (Tavastia). [2] In 2019 he was re-elected to the parliament for the term 2019–2023. [3]
Skinnari was appointed Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade in the cabinet of Prime Minister Antti Rinne in 2019. [2] [4] After the collapse of the cabinet in December 2019,Skinnari continued in the same position in the following Marin Cabinet. [5]
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