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Matti Vanhanen

Matti Vanhanen

Current Member of Parliament

Centre Party Parliamentary Group

Member of Parliament   22.03.1991–19.09.2010, 22.04.2015–

Telephone:

09 432 3188

E-mail:

matti.vanhanen(at)parliament.fi

Additional information:

22.03.1991 - 19.09.2010
Successor as an MP: Seppo Särkiniemi /
Appointed Director General of the Finnish Family Firms Association on 20 Sep 2010

Profession / Title:

Master of Political Science

Electoral district:

Electoral District of Uusimaa 22.04.2015–

Present memberships in committees:

Foreign Affairs Committee (member) 08.06.2021–
Legal Affairs Committee (member) 04.06.2021–

Member of the Government:

  • Prime Minister (Vanhanen) 24.06.2003–18.04.2007
  • Prime Minister (Vanhanen II) 19.04.2007–21.06.2010
  • Minister of Finance (Marin) 09.06.2020–26.05.2021
  • Minister of Defence (Jäätteenmäki) 17.04.2003–23.06.2003
  • Earlier electoral districts:
    • Uusimaa constituency 22.03.1991 - 23.03.1999
    • Electoral District of Uusimaa 24.03.1999 - 19.09.2010
  • Earlier memberships in committees:
    • Speakers (Speaker) 07.06.2019–08.06.2020
    • Speaker's Council (member) 07.09.2016–16.04.2019, (Speaker) 07.06.2019–08.06.2020
    • Chancellery Commission (Speaker) 07.06.2019–08.06.2020
    • Grand Committee (member) 11.04.1991–18.03.2003, (Chair) 21.06.2000–05.09.2001, (deputy member) 02.04.2003–16.04.2003, (deputy member) 02.05.2019–17.06.2019
    • Committee for Labour Affairs (deputy member) 11.04.1991–23.03.1995, (deputy member) 02.06.1995–23.03.1999
    • Environment Committee (member) 11.04.1991–23.03.1995, (vice chair) 11.04.1991–04.04.1995, (deputy member) 05.04.1995–18.03.2003, (deputy member) 02.05.2019–06.06.2019
    • Committee for the Future (member) 29.10.1993–23.03.1995, (deputy member) 02.04.2003–16.04.2003 (Committee for the Future) –23.03.1995
    • Foreign Affairs Committee (deputy member) 05.04.1995–16.05.1995, (member) 29.06.2010–19.09.2010, (member) 05.05.2015–16.04.2019, (Chair) 07.09.2016–16.04.2019
    • Constitutional Law Committee (deputy member) 19.05.1995–02.06.1995
    • Social Affairs and Health Committee (member) 02.04.2003–16.04.2003, (deputy member) 05.05.2015–08.06.2015, (deputy member) 13.06.2018–26.02.2019
    • Legal Affairs Committee (deputy member) 09.06.2015–16.04.2019
    • Finance Committee (member) 02.05.2019–06.06.2019
    • Finnish Delegation to the Nordic Council (deputy member) 11.04.1991–14.05.1991, (member) 14.03.2018–16.04.2019
    • Parliamentary Supervisory Council (member) 05.04.1995–25.04.1995, (member) 09.06.2015–17.06.2019, (Chair) 11.06.2015–17.06.2019
    • Parliamentary Trustees of the Bank of Finland, limited (1st deputy member) 05.04.1995–25.04.1995
    • Advisory Council of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (vice chair) 29.09.2016–31.05.2019
    • Supervisory Board for the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra (member) 20.02.2020–25.06.2020
    • Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (deputy member) 10.06.2015–16.04.2019
    • Finnish Delegation to the Joint Commission of the European Parliament and the Finnish Parliament (deputy member) 01.01.1993–20.12.1993, (member) 21.12.1993–31.12.1994
    • Forum for International Affairs (member) 07.09.2016–16.04.2019, (Speaker) 07.06.2019–08.06.2020
  • Earlier parliamentary groups:
    • Finnish Centre Party 22.03.1991–19.09.2010
  • Earlier positions in parliamentary groups
    • Finnish Centre Party (vice chair) 19.04.1994–25.01.2001
    • Centre Party Parliamentary Group (chair) 02.06.2015–20.06.2016
  • Full name:
    • Vanhanen, Matti Taneli
  • Date and place of birth:
    • 1955 Jyväskylä
  • Present place of residence:
    • Nurmijärvi
  • Education:
    • matriculated 1975 (Lahnus Upper Secondary School), Master of Social Sciences 1989 (University of Helsinki)
  • Career:
    • President, Young Centre Alliance (Nuoren Keskustan Liitto 1980-1983
    • journalist, Kehäsanomat 1985-1988
    • Editor-in-chief, Kehäsanomat 1988-1991
    • Director General of the Finnish Family Firms Association 2010-2015