
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment
Minister of Economic Affairs
Sakari Puisto
The Finns Party
Minister of Economic Affairs Sakari Puisto is responsible for matters of the Innovations and Enterprise Financing Department at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. The Department is responsible for innovation policy, special public funding and export financing policy, mineral policy, internationalisation policy of business and industry, tourism coordination and promotion of foreign investments. The Department is also in charge of the development of the business subsidy system and space policy.
Puisto is also responsible for security of supply issues and, within the Regions and Growth Services Department, for matters related to regional development, sudden structural changes, steering of the Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centres) and business services offered by them, promotion of entrepreneurship, EU regional and structural policy, and the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).
Furthermore, Minister of Economic Affairs Puisto is also responsible for matters related to the Financial Markets Department of the Ministry of Finance, with the exception of matters related to the strategic steering and supervision of central government borrowing, debt servicing and the investment of cash funds.
Personal details
Member of Parliament
The Finns Party
Date and place of birth: 19.12.1976 Tampere
Domicile: Tampere
Minister of Economic Affairs 13.6.2025 -
Days in office 2
Curriculum vitae and work in ParliamentLink to an external website
Profile
Sakari Puisto was born in 1976 in Tampere. By education, he is a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge (2004).
In 2023, Sakari Puisto was elected for the second term in the Parliament from Pirkanmaa constituency. Before taking office as Minister of Economic Affairs, he has acted as the Chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee and a deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the current parliamentary season. He has also been a member of the Parliamentary Council which oversees the activities of Bank of Finland and Financial Supervisory Authority, and the supervisory board of Finnfund, Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation. In 2025, he was elected to his third term as City Councillor in his hometown Tampere.
Before his path to politics and becoming an MP, he worked in both private sector and universities, of which a couple of years in Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
Ministerial duties
- Orpo - Minister of Economic Affairs 13.6.2025 - (The Finns Party)
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Contact details
Secretary to the Minister
Maija Terävä
p. 0295 047 047
State Secretary to the Minister
Marjo Lindgren
tel. +358 295 342 119
State Secretary's Assistant Emma Lintukangas
tel. +358 295 342 477
Advisers
Lars Aikala, Special adviser (business financing, internationalisation of companies, digitalisation, mineral policy, circular economy, affairs of the Ministry of Finance's Financial Markets Department)
Tel. +358 295 047 330
Anna-Maija Kaikkonen, Administrative Assistant
Tel. +358 295 047 323
Teemu Hartikainen, Special adviser (regional development, entrepreneurship, innovation policy, security of supply, EU affairs)
Tel. +358 295 047 296
Elvana Tahiri, Administrative Assistant
Tel. +358 295 047 024
Leila Vilhunen, Adviser to the Minister (EU and International Affairs)
Tel. +358 295 047 120
E-mail addresses are firstname.lastname@gov.fi.
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment
Aleksanterinkatu 4, Helsinki
PL 32, 00023 Valtioneuvosto