Minister of Social Security Karoliina Partanen

The National Coalition Party

Ministry of Social Affairs and Health

Minister of Social Security Karoliina Partanen is responsible for matters covered by the Department for Insurance and Social Security, the Department for Work and Gender Equality and the Department for Safety, Security and Health.

Profile

Minister of Social Security Karoliina Partanen was born in Jyväskylä in 1983. She has been a Member of Parliament representing the National Coalition Party since 2023.

Partanen holds a Master of Laws degree and has been awarded the title of Master of Laws, trained on the bench. Before being elected to Parliament, she worked as a lawyer in the Finnish Union of Practical Nurses (SuPer) and, for the last nine years, as an attorney-at-law. As an attorney-at-law her main focus was on children, young people, families and crime victims, and on labour law matters.

Partanen has served as deputy chair of the National Coalition Party since 2024. In Parliament she has been member of the Constitutional Law Committee and the Employment and Equality Committee and deputy member of the Legal Affairs Committee. She has also served as chair of the Council for Gender Equality, the UN Association of Finland and Parliament’s Friends of the UN group, member of the Supervisory Board of Veikkaus and member of the High Court of Impeachment. 

Partanen is Councillor of the City of Kuopio and member of the County Council of the North Savo Wellbeing Services County, and she has also served as member of the County Executive. She has also chaired the eastern Finland regional chapter of the Finnish Bar Association and served as vice-chair of the ANTI Contemporary Art Festival and member of the Board of Kuopion Yrittäjät.
She lives with a partner and son and a Golden Retriever named Pablo. She enjoys physical activities and nature and loves to learn new things. In summer she is an eager urban farmer and berry picker.