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.
Oscar Fredrik Torp was a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. He was party leader from 1923 to 1945,and mayor of Oslo in 1935 and 1936. In 1935 he became the acting minister of Defence in the government of Johan Nygaardsvold. He was also the minister of Social Affairs from 1936 to 1939,and then the minister of Finance from 1939 to 1942. He was appointed Minister of Defence again in 1942 in the London-based Norwegian exile government. He continued until the election in 1945 when he became the minister of Provisioning and Reconstruction until 1948.
The president of the Republic of Finland is the head of state of Finland. The incumbent president is Alexander Stubb,since 1 March 2024. He was elected president for the first time in 2024.
Anneli Tuulikki Jäätteenmäki is a Finnish politician who was the first female and 39th Prime Minister of Finland from 17 April 2003 to 24 June 2003. From 2004 until 2019,she served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland.
Jan-Erik Enestam is a Finnish politician from the Swedish People's Party. He served as Minister of Defence from 1999 to 2003 under Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen and Minister of the Environment under Prime Ministers Anneli Jäätteenmäki and Matti Vanhanen from 2003 to 2006.
The Centre Party,officially the Centre Party of Finland,is an agrarian-centrist political party in Finland. Ideologically,the Centre Party is positioned in the centre on the political spectrum. It has been described as liberal,social-liberal,liberal-conservative,and conservative-liberal. The party’s leader is Annika Saarikko,who was elected in September 2020 to follow Katri Kulmuni,the former finance minister of Finland. As of December 2019,the party has been a coalition partner in the Marin Cabinet,led by Prime Minister Sanna Marin of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Erkki Antero Liikanen is a Finnish social democratic politician and a former Governor of the Bank of Finland.
Märta Elisabeth Rehn is a Finnish former politician and diplomat. She served as the Minister of Defence of Finland during 1990 to 1995 and as an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations during 1998 to 1999. She was also a member of the Finnish Parliament and parliamentary leader of the Swedish People's Party of Finland,and a member of the European Parliament.
Hill-Marta Solberg is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. During her career,she was a parliamentary representative for Nordland county from 1993-2009. She was the Minister of Health and Social Affairs for three years and then was the County Governor of Nordland county for nearly ten years. She retired on 15 November 2018.
Henricus Gregorius Jozeph "Henk" Kamp is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) who was Minister of Defence in the Cabinet Rutte III from 24 September 2021 to 10 January 2022. He previously was Minister of Defence in the Cabinets Balkenende I,II and III from 12 December 2002 until 22 February 2007.
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.
Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi is a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician. The current Minister of Wildlife and Forest Conservation,she is a Member of Parliament from the Ratnapura District.
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.
Sinikka Mönkäre is a Finnish physician and politician who served as minister in different cabinets of Finland.
Sanna Mirella Marin is a Finnish former politician who served as prime minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023 and as the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) from 2020 to 2023. She was a Member of Parliament from 2015 to 2023. She was re-elected as member of parliament in April 2023 but resigned from her position in the Finnish parliament to become a strategic adviser on political leaders' reform programmes in the Tony Blair Institute in September 2023.
Pirjo Anneli Ala-Kapee-Hakulinen is a Finnish politician who was the minister of education in the fourth cabinet of prime minister Kalevi Sorsa from 1986 to 1987. A member of the Social Democratic Party,she was also a member of the Finnish Parliament from 1979 to 1989.
Margit Marjatta Margareetta Eskman was a Finnish politician. She was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1966 to 1975,representing Turku Province North as a member of the Social Democratic Party. She was the Second Minister of Finance from February to May 1972,the first woman to hold that position. Eskman later served as the director-general of Finland's national social security agency and the National Board of Social Welfare.
Ilmi Orvokki Kangas was a Finnish politician. She represented Vaasa in the Parliament of Finland from 1970 to 1983 as a member of the Centre Party. From September 1976 to May 1977,she was Finland's second minister of social affairs and health,appointed by Prime Minister Martti Miettunen.
Kaarina Elisabeth Suonio is a Finnish retired politician and psychologist. She represented Helsinki in the Parliament of Finland from 1975 to 1986 as a member of the Social Democratic Party. From 1982 to 1986,she was Finland's minister of education,and from 1994 to 1997,she was the last governor of Häme Province prior to its merger with other provinces.
Maija-Liisa Rask is a Finnish retired politician and nurse. She represented Lapland in the Parliament of Finland as a member of the Social Democratic Party from 1991 to 2007. As minister of education from 1999 to 2003,she was one of the 29 signers of the Bologna declaration.
