Tarja Cronberg

Tarja Cronberg
Cronberg in 2014.
Minister of Labour
In office 19 April 2007 – 25 June 2009
Prime Minister	Matti Vanhanen
Preceded by	Tarja Filatov
Succeeded by	Anni Sinnemäki
Personal details
Born	(1943-06-29) 29 June 1943 (age 73) Helsinki, Finland
Nationality	Finnish
Political party	Green League

Tarja Cronberg (née Mattila, born 29 June 1943 in Helsinki) is a Finnish Green League politician who served as a member of the European Parliament from 2011 until 2014. Cronberg was Member of the Finnish Parliament 2003–2007. She chaired her party from 2005 until 2009 and was the Minister of Labour in the Finnish government from 2007 to 2009 as part of Matti Vanhanen's second cabinet.

Tarja Cronberg became MEP in 2011 by replacing Heidi Hautala who became Minister of International Development in the Finnish cabinet. During her 2011–2014 term in the EU Parliament, Cronberg was the chair of the European Parliament delegation for relations with Iran and served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence.

Cronberg was born in Helsinki, Finland and currently resides in Polvijärvi, Northern Karelia. She holds two Ph.D. degrees: in technology from Lund University, Sweden and in business administration from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Cronberg has worked in various positions in both business and education, such as an associate professorship at the Technical University of Denmark, among others. She has long exercised political leadership in Europe's networked society. She was a Member of the Finnish Parliament from 2003 to 2007 and the Minister of Labour from 2007 to 2009. She chaired the Green League party from 2005 to 2009 and served on several parliamentary committees (foreign affairs, security and defense, employment). She was a member of the EU Competitiveness Council (2008-2009) and of the EU Employment and Social Affairs Council (2007-2009).