Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi

Date of birth 27 September 1968

Place of birth Seinäjoki

Place of residence

Nationality Finnish

Civil Status Married, spouse Juha Mikael Louhivuori, CEO Children Hanna, b. 1997; Antti, b. 2000

Education Master of Social Sciences

Experience Prime Minister, 22 June 2010 to present Minister of Public Administration and Local Government, 19 April 2007-22 June 2010 Minister at the Ministry of the Interior, 19 April 2007 to 31 December 2007 Minister for Foreign Trade and Development and Minister at the Prime Minister's Office, 2 September 2005 to 3 March 2006 Special Adviser to Prime Minister , Economic Policy, 2004- 2005 Member of Parliament, 1995 to present

Positions of trust Centre Party, Party Leader 2010 to present Centre Party, Deputy Party Leader 2003-2008 Centre Party, South Ostrobothnia Region, Vice Chair 1994-2000 Centre Party, Party Delegation, Member 1992-1996 Parliamentary Supervisory Council of the Bank of , Member 2004- 2005, Chair 2006-2007 Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, Vice Chair 2003-2004 and 2006- 2007 Parliamentary Commerce Committee, Vice Chair 1999 and 2000-2003 Parliamentary Grand Committee, Member 2003-2007 Centre Party parliamentary group, Vice Chair 2003 Finnish Delegation to the Nordic Council, Member 1995-1999

Helsinki City Council, Member 2005 to present

Young Finland Association, Chair, 2006 to present Ilkka-Yhtymä Group, Supervisory Board, Member 2006-2007 Save the Children, Board, Member 2006-2007 Finnish National Opera Foundation, Board, Member 2004-2007 Finnish National Fund for Research and Development (Sitra), Supervisory Board, Member 2003-2005 Lännen Tehtaat Oyj, Supervisory Board, Member 1996-2005 Alko, Supervisory Board, Member 2002-2003

The Norden Association in Finland, Ostrobothnia district, Chair 1998-2001, Committee Member 1998-2001, Council Vice Chair 2002-2003 Leonia, Supervisory Board, Member 1997-2000 VR Group Ltd, Supervisory Board, Member 1995-1997 The Youth League of the Norden Association in Finland, Board, Vice Chair 1990-1992

Interests Sports, music, reading