Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner

Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner
MEP
Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner MEP
Member of the European Parliament
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 27 April 2015
Constituency	Finland
Member of the Finnish Parliament
	In office; 21 March 2007 – 6 May 2015
Constituency	Uusimaa
Personal details
Born	Pirkko Anneli Ruohonen-Lerner; 6 February 1957 (age 67); Hyvinkää, Finland
Political party	Finnish; Finns Party; EU; European Conservatives and Reformists
Alma mater	University of Helsinki
Website	www.pirkon.info

Pirkko Anneli Ruohonen-Lerner (born 6 February 1957) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland. She is a member of the Finns Party, part of the European Conservatives and Reformists.

She was elected to Finnish Parliament in 2007 and served as a member of parliament until 2015. She was the chair of the party's parliamentary group from 2011 to 2014. In April 2015, Ruohonen-Lerner succeeded Sampo Terho in the European Parliament when Terho was elected to the Parliament of Finland.^[2]

In her political career, she has served as a member of the council of the municipality of Myrskylä from 1985 to 1988 (then with the National Coalition Party), and as a member of the council of the city of Porvoo since 1996.

References

^ "MEPs: Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner". European Parliament. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
^ "Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerneristä tulee europarlamentaarikko". 4 May 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2015.

External links

Parliament of Finland: Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner (in Finnish)
Home page (in Finnish)

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[1] "MEPs: Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner". European Parliament. Retrieved 7 May 2015.

[2] "Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerneristä tulee europarlamentaarikko". 4 May 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2015.

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