Anu Vehviläinen | |
Office1: | Speaker of the Parliament of Finland |
Term Start1: | 9 June 2020 |
Term End1: | 1 February 2022 |
Deputy1: | Antti Rinne Juho Eerola |
Predecessor1: | Matti Vanhanen |
Successor1: | Matti Vanhanen |
Office2: | Minister of Local Government and Public Reforms |
Primeminister2: | Juha Sipilä |
Term Start2: | 29 May 2015 |
Term End2: | 6 June 2019 |
Predecessor2: | Paula Risikko |
Successor2: | Sirpa Paatero |
Office3: | Minister of Transport and Communications |
Primeminister3: | Juha Sipilä |
Term Start3: | 29 May 2019 |
Term End3: | 6 June 2019 |
Predecessor3: | Anne Berner |
Successor3: | Sanna Marin |
Primeminister4: | Matti Vanhanen Mari Kiviniemi |
Term Start4: | 19 April 2007 |
Term End4: | 22 June 2011 |
Predecessor4: | Susanna Huovinen |
Successor4: | Merja Kyllönen |
Birth Name: | Anu Helena Vehviläinen |
Birth Date: | 9 September 1963 |
Birth Place: | Leppävirta, Finland |
Party: | Centre |
Spouse: | Timo Hiltunen (1999–2011) |
Anu Helena Vehviläinen (born 9 September 1963) is a Finnish politician for the Centre Party who served as Speaker of the Finnish Parliament from 2020 to 2022. She has previously held various cabinet positions, including Finland's Minister of Local Government and Public Reforms in the Sipilä Cabinet from 2015 to 2019;[1] Minister of Transport from May to June 2019;[2] and Minister of Transport in the Vanhanen II and Kiviniemi cabinets from 2007 to 2011.
Vehviläinen was born in Leppävirta. She has a master's degree in Philosophy and is preparing a doctorate degree at the University of Joensuu.
During his time in parliament, Vehviläinen served on the Committee on Education (1995–1999) and the Committee on Social Affairs and Health (2011–2015, 2019–2020), among others.[3]
From 2015 to 2019, Vehviläinen served as Minister of Local Government and Public Reforms in the cabinet of Prime Minister Juha Sipilä.[4]
In 2020, Vehviläinen was appointed Speaker of the Finnish Parliament after Matti Vanhanen had been appointed Minister of Finance in the Marin Cabinet.[5]