Jenni Haukio
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Haukio in 2015
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| Spouse of the President of Finland | |
| In role 1 March 2012 – 1 March 2024 | |
| President | Sauli Niinistö |
| Preceded by | Pentti Arajärvi |
| Succeeded by | Suzanne Innes-Stubb |
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| Born | Jenni Elina Haukio (1977-04-07) 7 April 1977 (age 47) Pori, Finland |
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(m. 2009) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Turku (M.Soc.Sc.) University of Helsinki (D.Soc.Sc.) |
| Occupation | Poet |
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Jenni Elina Haukio (born 7 April 1977) is a Finnish poet, political scientist and the spouse of the president of Finland[1] from 2012 to 2024. She is the second wife of the former president of Finland, Sauli Niinistö.
Haukio graduated from the University of Turku with a master of political sciences degree in 2001.[2] She completed her political science doctoral thesis on the digitisation of party campaigns at the University of Helsinki in 2022.[3]
She worked at the University of Turku, first as a research assistant and then as a communications officer. From 2003 to 2005, she was a parliamentary assistant, and from 2005 to 2012 she worked for the National Coalition Party. Since February 2012, Haukio has been the programme manager for the Turku Book Fair.[4]
Haukio has published three poetry collections. The first one won a national debut poet contest, Runo-Kaarina, in 1999.[4]
Haukio met Sauli Niinistö, then a widower, in 2005, while she was working for the National Coalition Party. Haukio interviewed Niinistö for the party's Nykypäivä magazine.[5] They later became a couple, but they kept their relationship a secret from the public until their marriage on 3 January 2009.[6] Their first child, a son named Aaro Veli Väinämö Niinistö, was born on 2 February 2018.[1][7]
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| Preceded by | Spouse of the President of Finland 2012–2024 |
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