Tarja Filatov

Tarja Filatov (born 9 August 1963 in Hämeenlinna) is a member of Finnish Parliament, currently serving as the Second Deputy Speaker, and a former Minister of Employment. She has already been one of the two Deputy Speakers of the Parliament twice (February 2010 - April 2011; December 2020 - 2021). As a member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), she represents the Häme constituency since 1995. Previously, she was the vice chairman of the SDP parliamentary group (March 1999 - March 2002), its chairman and a member of its Working Committee (both between March 2007 - February 2010).

In 2000 she was appointed as Minister of Labour in Paavo Lipponen's second Cabinet (1999–2003), keeping the position in the short-lived Jäätteenmäki's Cabinet (2003) and then Matti Vanhanen's first cabinet (2003–2007).