1. Juhana Mikael Vartiainen was born on 28 May 1958 and is a Finnish politician, economist and a member of the Finnish Parliament, representing the National Coalition Party, which he joined after having been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1975 to 2015.
Juhana Vartiainen was elected the Mayor of Helsinki in August 2021 by the Helsinki city council.
Juhana Vartiainen's father Henri Juhana Vartiainen was an economist and economic researcher.
Juhana Vartiainen completed his mandatory military service in Finland and his current rank in the reserve is lieutenant.
Juhana Vartiainen joined the Social Democratic Party of Finland in 1975.
Juhana Vartiainen studied economics, other social sciences and philosophy at the University of Helsinki, earning his Doctorate of Social Sciences in Economics in 1992.
Between 1993 and 2005, Juhana Vartiainen worked as a researcher and senior researcher at the Finnish Labour Institute for Economic Research.
In 2005, Juhana Vartiainen became the Research Director of the Swedish National Institute of Economic Research.
Juhana Vartiainen worked at the Konjunkturinstitutet until 2012, when he became the Director General of the Finnish VATT Institute for Economic Research, an institution that produces and studies scientific research and analyses of micro- and macroeconomics as well as economic policy in Finland.
Juhana Vartiainen left the Social Democratic Party of Finland in 2015, citing the party's movement further away from right-leaning social democracy and the inability of the party and the trade union movement to engage in the reforms needed to secure public finances in aging Finland.
Juhana Vartiainen was elected to the parliament in 2015 as a representative of the National Coalition Party from the Helsinki district, gaining 11,436 votes in the elections.
In 2021 Juhana Vartiainen was the National Coalition Party's mayoral candidate of Helsinki in the 2021 Finnish municipal elections, being elected to the city council of Helsinki with 13,898 votes, coming third in the personal vote share after fellow National Coalition Party candidate Elina Valtonen with 15,793 votes and the Finns Party's Jussi Halla-Aho at 18,978 votes.
Juhana Vartiainen describes himself as a "right-leaning social democrat", following the footsteps of Finnish career politician Vaino Tanner.