Alexander Stubb

Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb (born 1 April 1968) is a Finnish politician serving as the president of Finland since 2024. A member of the National Coalition Party, he previously served as prime minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015 and has held several senior ministerial posts since 2008. Rising in politics as a researcher specialised in the European Union, he was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 and was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2008. In 2011 he was elected to the Parliament of Finland and was later appointed Minister for European Affairs and Trade in the Cabinet of Jyrki Katainen. In 2014, Stubb succeeded Katainen as leader of the National Coalition Party and was appointed prime minister by President Sauli Niinistö on 24 June, forming a five-party coalition government. Following the 2015 parliamentary election his party lost, he served as Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Juha Sipilä. After losing the party leadership to Petteri Orpo in June 2016, Stubb stepped down as finance minister and resigned from parliament in 2017 to become vice-president of the European Investment Bank. He later served as director and professor at the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance until 2023. In 2023, Stubb announced his candidacy in the 2024 Finnish presidential election. He won the second round with 51 % of the vote against former foreign minister Pekka Haavisto and took office as president in March 2024. Stubb is the second Finland-Swedish president in Finland’s history, after Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, and the first to be elected to the office.