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Contact details
Secretary to the Minister
Ms Nanna Bergman
Tel. +358 295 330 152
State Secretary
Ms Minna Kelhä
Tel. +358 295 330 002
Advisers
Mr Dan Koivulaakso, Special Adviser
Tel. +358 2953 3 0058
Ms Niina Jurva, Special Adviser (Early childhood education, primary and lower secondary education)
Tel. +358 295 330 320
Mr Lauri Holappa, Special Adviser (General upper secondary and vocational education and training)
Tel. +358 50 572 4054
Mr Touko Sipiläinen, Special Adviser (Communications of the Minister of Education and the ministerial group of the Left Alliance)
Tel. +358 295 330 143
Mr Henri Purje, (Economic policy)
Tel. +358 295 330 017
Ministry of Education and Culture
Meritullinkatu 10, Helsinki
PO Box 29
FI-00023 Government, Finland
[email protected]
Current issues
Government of Prime Minister Marin appointed
In Finland, the school closest to your home is among the best schools in the world
President and the Ministerial Committee on Foreign and Security Policy discussed crisis management and 5G networks
This Government term’s most significant development programme for early childhood education and care and basic education set to begin
Ministers Andersson and Kosonen to attend UNESCO General Conference
EU finance and education ministers to hold their first joint policy debate
New members of Research and Innovation Council appointed
Reform of continuous learning launched to alleviate skills shortages and to improve upskilling opportunities for working age people
Minister of Education Andersson and Minister of Science and Culture Kosonen: Government invests in knowledge and education
Henkilötiedot
Opetusministeri 10.12.2019–
Puolueen puheenjohtaja, valtiotieteiden kandidaatti, kansanedustaja
Vasemmistoliitto
Syntymäaika ja -paikka: 13.5.1987 Turku
Kotipaikka: Turku
Poliittinen ura
Opetusministeri 10.12.2019-
Opetusministeri (Rinne) 6.6.2019–10.12.2019
Vasemmistoliitto, puheenjohtaja 2016–
Vasemmistoliiton eduskuntaryhmä, 1. varapuheenjohtaja 23.04.2015–23.08.2016
Vasemmistonuoret, puheenjohtaja 2011–2015
Kansanedustaja 2015–
Työ eduskunnassa
Turun kaupunginvaltuusto 2012–
Vasemmistoliiton Turun valtuustoryhmä, puheenjohtaja 2012–2015
Varsinais-Suomen liitto maakuntavaltuusto 2017–
Varsinais-Suomen liitto, maakuntavaltuusto, 3. varapuheenjohtaja 2013–2019
Muu työura ja yhteiskunnallinen toiminta
Finlands Svenska skolungdomsförbund, pääsihteeri 2006–2007
Civil rights defenders, harjoittelija 2010
Julkisten ja hyvinvointialojen liitto JHL, edustajisto 2017–2019
Osuuskunta Tradeka, edustajisto 2016–2019
Turun kaupunginteatteri hallitus 2018–2019
Julkaisut
Li Andersson, Dan Koivulaakso, Mikael Brunila: Äärioikeisto Suomessa
Li Andersson, Susanna Koski: Punavihreä, sinivalkoinen
Muut tiedot
Puoliso: Juha Pursiainen
Kielitaito: suomi, ruotsi (äidinkieli), englanti, venäjän perusteet
Harrastukset: kirjallisuus ja liikunta
Profile
Li Andersson was born in Turku in May 1987 and continues to live in the city.
Li Andersson has served in Prime Minister Rinne’s Government as the Minister of Educationfrom 6 June to 10 December 2019 and has held the position in Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Government since 10 December 2019. She has been the Party Leader of the Left Alliance since 2016. Before that, she chaired the Left Youth of Finland in 2011–2015. She is now serving her second term as Member of Parliament.
Li Andersson holds the Bachelor of Social Sciences degree. She has majored in international law, with particular focus on international human rights legislation and refugee law. As minors she has studied the Russian language and culture.
She has worked in several associations, including as President of the Swedish-speaking School-student Union of Finland (FSS), Deputy District Secretary of the Southeast Finland Left Youth of Finland, and intern in the human rights organisation Civil Rights Defenders.
Before politics and civil sector organisations, she has worked in Moominworld, as hotel receptionists, waitress, kitchen worker and face-to-face fundraiser for Greenpeace, at a fruit processing plant in France, and as translator.
She has served as a member of the City Council of Turku since 2012 and in the Assembly of the Southwest Finland Regional Council since 2017.
As her favourite leisure activities she lists travelling, festivals and concerts, literature and physical exercise.
Further information
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