Liisa Jaakonsaari | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MEP |
Office: | Member of the European Parliament |
Term Start: | 1 July 2009 |
Term End: | 2019 |
Constituency: | Finland |
Office1: | Minister of Labour |
Primeminister1: | Paavo Lipponen |
Term Start1: | 13 April 1995 |
Term End1: | 15 April 1999 |
Predecessor1: | Ilkka Kanerva |
Successor1: | Sinikka Mönkäre |
Office2: | Member of the Finnish Parliament |
Term Start2: | 7 March 1979 |
Term End2: | 1 July 2009 |
Constituency2: | Oulu |
Birth Name: | Liisa Anneli Jaakonsaari |
Birth Date: | 2 September 1945 |
Birth Place: | Oulu, Finland |
Party: | Finland Social Democratic Party Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
Spouse: | Seppo Jaakonsaari |
Children: | 0[1] |
Alma Mater: | Stockholm University |
Liisa Anneli Jaakonsaari (née Ollakka; born 2 September 1945) is a Finnish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 until 2019. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
Jaakonsaari was a city councillor in Oulu from 1972 until 1995. She was also a member of the Finnish parliament from 1979 until 2009, when she was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Jaakonsaari was the Minister of Labour in Paavo Lipponen's first cabinet (1995–1999).[2]
Unlike her party, Jaakonsaari advocated NATO membership already before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3] [4]