Sanna Marin served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023. She was the youngest person to serve as prime minister of Finland and the youngest female Head of Government in the world.
Marin graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in 2012 and Master’s degree in 2017 from the University of Tampere in Administrative Science. Her Master’s thesis, entitled ‘Finland, a country of Mayors’, looked into the professionalisation process of political leadership in Finnish cities.
Her interest in politics began in 2006 when she joined the Social Democratic Youth, becoming its first director in 2010. In 2012, Marin was elected to the City Council of Tampere and served as its Chairwoman from 2013 to 2017. In 2015, she was elected to the Finish Parliament and served until 2023. Marin served as Minister of Transport and Communications for a few months in 2019 before being appointed to the role of Prime Minister. From 2020 to 2023, she led the Social Democratic Party.
As of 2023, Marin founded the company MA/PI Oy and is a strategic advisor for the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
