Outi Ojala | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MEP |
Office: | Member of the European Parliament |
Term Start: | 1996 |
Term End: | 1999 |
Constituency: | Finland |
Birth Date: | 28 June 1946 |
Birth Place: | Lappeenranta, Finland |
Death Place: | Lassila, Helsinki, Finland |
Outi Marjatta Ojala (28 June 1946, Lappee – 16 May 2017) was a Finnish politician of the Left Alliance. She served as a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1991 to 1996 and from 1999 to 2007, and as a Member of the European Parliament from 1996 to 1999.[1] She was President of the Nordic Council in 2002.[2]
Ojala trained as a nurse and was involved in trade unions and local politics in Helsinki, where she was a city councillor 1989–1996 and 2001–2012.