{"id":72,"date":"2026-08-15T21:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T21:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umasean.com\/?post_type=glgi_person&#038;p=72"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:43:17","slug":"h-e-mari-kiviniemi","status":"publish","type":"glgi_person","link":"https:\/\/www.umasean.com\/index.php\/leaders\/h-e-mari-kiviniemi\/","title":{"rendered":"H.E. Mari Kiviniemi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mari Kiviniemi works as a lecturer and consultant through her company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, she is Chair of the Board of the University of Vaasa and a member of the Board of Directors of Mets\u00e4 Board (listed). She is also a Distinguished Advisor to Efekta Education, a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). From 2019 to 2024, she was Managing Director of the Finnish Commerce Federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mari Kiviniemi has held senior leadership roles in national and international public service and in business, with a focus on economic policy, governance and institutional reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She served as the 41st Prime Minister of Finland (2010\u20132011) and was OECD Deputy Secretary-General (2014\u20132018). She previously held ministerial portfolios including Minister of Public Administration and Local Government (2007\u20132010) and Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade (2005\u20132006).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elected to the Finnish Parliament at the age of 26, she served as a Member of Parliament from 1995 to 2014 and chaired the Parliamentary Supervisory Council of the Bank of Finland (2006\u20132007). Born in 1968, she studied economics at the University of Helsinki and holds a Master of Social Sciences (Economics).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mari Kiviniemi works as a lecturer and consultant through her company. Currently, she is Chair of the Board of the University of Vaasa and a member of the Board of Directors of Mets\u00e4 Board (listed). She is also a Distinguished Advisor to Efekta Education, a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Asian Infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":102,"template":"","class_list":["post-72","glgi_person","type-glgi_person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umasean.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glgi_person\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umasean.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glgi_person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umasean.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glgi_person"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.umasean.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glgi_person\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/www.umasean.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glgi_person\/72\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umasean.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umasean.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}