Heli Järvinen | |
Party: | Green League |
Constituency Mp: | Southeast Finland |
Term Start: | 17 April 2019 |
Term Start1: | 23 March 2007 |
Term End1: | 19 April 2011 |
Parliament: | Finnish |
Birth Place: | Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland |
Children: | 2 |
Alma Mater: | University of Tampere University of Jyväskylä |
Occupation: | teacher, politician |
Heli Järvinen (born 31 May 1963) is a Finnish politician for the Green League, representing the Southern Savonia constituency from 2007 to 2011 and the Southeastern Finland constituency since 2015.[1] She was elected to the Finnish Parliament in the parliamentary election of March 2007. She lost her seat in the Parliament of Finland in 2011 elections but was again elected in 2015.[2] She was also a member of the municipal council of Kerimäki between 2005 and 2011. Since 2017 she has been a member of Savonlinna town council. She is the second vice-chairperson of the council.
Järvinen was born in Tampere. She has a master's degree in political science from the University of Tampere and has also graduated as a teacher of communications from the University of Jyväskylä. Prior to her election to the parliament she worked as a journalist and a teacher. Järvinen is married and has two children.