• Member of the Finnish Parliament 2007 - (www.eduskunta.fi)
  
• General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party in Finland 2005 - 2008
• Previous political assistant for the minister of education (2003), the minister of labour (2004) and the minister of finance (2005), secretary for the socialdemocratic group in government
• 10 years of experience from various public-sector duties
• Family: husband Michael Ranta, children Sissi (1990), Hanna (1993) and Kalle (1995)
• Lives in Southern Finland in municipality of Raasepori (www.raasepori.fi)

SDP has 45 of the 200 seats in Parliament since the elections held on the 18th March, 2007.The party is in opposition after an eight year long time in the government.