Sakari Puisto, b. 1976, is an MP, the Minister of Economic Affairs and a City Councillor from Tampere, Finland.
By education, he is a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge (2004). Before his path to politics and becoming an MP, he worked in both private sector and universities, of which a couple of years in Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
The Finnish Parliament and Government are familiar places to him. In 2015, he participated in government negotiations. Until 2017, he worked as a Special Adviser to former Minister of Employment in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland. After that, he worked as a political planner in close cooperation with the party leadership and parliamentary group. In the next parliamentary elections in 2019, he was elected to the Parliament from the electoral district of Pirkanmaa.
In April 2023, Sakari Puisto was elected for the second term in the Parliament with 6592 votes. Before taking office as Minister of Economic Affairs, he has acted as the Chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee and a deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the current parliamentary season. He has also been a member of the Parliamentary Council which oversees the activities of Bank of Finland and Financial Supervisory Authority, and the supervisory board of Finnfund, Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation. In 2025, he was elected to his third term as City Councillor in his hometown Tampere.
Sakari Puisto also has had several positions of trust. These include, for example, the supervisory board of Finnfund, Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation Ltd (2019–2025), and the board of Finnish National Gallery (2020–2024), and the board of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (2022–2024). Besides, he chairs the inter-parliamentary friendship group of Republic of Lithuania, and completed the 235th National Civil Defence Course in 2020.