1. Jutta Pauliina Urpilainen was born on 4 August 1975 and is a Finnish politician.
17 Facts About Jutta Urpilainen
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Jutta Urpilainen was the first female chair of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, which she led from 2008 to 2014.
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Jutta Urpilainen was the Minister of Finance as well as the Deputy Prime Minister of Finland from 2011 to 2014.
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Jutta Urpilainen studied at the University of Jyvaskyla, where she graduated with a Master's of Education in 2002.
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Jutta Urpilainen worked as a school teacher until her election to Parliament.
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Jutta Urpilainen served as president of the Young European Federalists of Finland in 2001.
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Jutta Urpilainen was a member of Parliament for the Vaasa constituency from the 2003 national elections.
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Jutta Urpilainen was elected as the chair of the Social Democratic Party in June 2008, succeeding former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Eero Heinaluoma.
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Jutta Urpilainen won on the second ballot, defeating former Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja by 218 votes to 132.
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The surge of the eurosceptic True Finns party in the 2011 elections sparked a move from the Social Democrats under Jutta Urpilainen to toughen their stance on the euro significantly, leading Finland to become the only country to demand collateral from Greece and Spain as part of their international rescues.
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Only one month later, Jutta Urpilainen had to revise the government's growth target for that fiscal year down to zero as exports slowed; the only Eurozone countries that fared worse were Greece and Portugal.
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Jutta Urpilainen sought another term as party chair in the Social Democratic Party's 2014 party conference in May She was narrowly defeated by her challenger, Antti Rinne, in a 257 to 243 vote.
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Ahead of the 2018 presidential elections, Jutta Urpilainen was widely mentioned as a potential candidate.
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From 2017 until 2019, Jutta Urpilainen served as Minister of Foreign Affairs Timo Soini's Special Representative on Mediation.
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On 1 December 2019, Jutta Urpilainen assumed the office of European Commissioner in the Von der Leyen Commission, with the portfolio of international partnerships.
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On 16 August 2023, the chairman of the Social Democratic Party Sanna Marin asked Jutta Urpilainen to run in the 2024 Finnish presidential election as the party's candidate.
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Jutta Urpilainen is married to Juha Mustonen, an official in the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.