Aili Keskitalo

Aili Keskitalo
Keskitalo portrait in 2013.
5th President of the Sami Parliament of Norway
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 October 2013
Preceded by	Egil Olli
Personal details
Born	(1968-10-29) 29 October 1968 (age 48) Kautokeino, Finnmark, Norway
Nationality	Sami Norwegian

Aili Keskitalo (born 29 October 1968) is a Norwegian Sami politician representing the Norwegian Sámi Association (NSR), and the fifth and current president of the Sami Parliament of Norway, incumbent since 16 October 2013.

Prior to her current presidency, she served as president of the Sami Parliament of Norway in 2005, the third in its history and the first female President of any Sami Parliament. She stepped down in September 2007. The collapse of her coalition made way for the first ever non-NSR presidency, led by Egil Olli from the Norwegian Labour Party.

She has a Master in Public Administration from Copenhagen Business School, in which she compared the school systems in Norway and Greenland

Keskitalo was the first Sámi President whose mother tongue was not Sámi but Norwegian. However, she speaks Northern Sami fluently.