Mikael Jungner is the current party secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Finland

Social Democratic Party of Finland

The Social Democratic Party of Finland is one of the three major political parties in Finland, along with the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party. Jutta Urpilainen is the current SDP leader. The party has been in the Finnish government cabinet for long periods and has set many...

, a member of the Finnish parliament and a former managing director of the Finnish national broadcaster YLE. He grew up on the Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 west coast in the city of Vaasa

Vaasa

Vaasa is a city on the west coast of Finland. It received its charter in 1606, during the reign of Charles IX of Sweden and is named after the Royal House of Vasa...

. He started a five-year term as Managing Director of YLE on the 1 May 2005. Although he sought another term, the political board of YLE replaced him with Lauri Kivinen on 1 May 2010. Jungner's term as the managing director of YLE can be considered to have been a success.

Jungner was the director of information society relations at Microsoft Corporation 2002-2004. He was formerly the Parliamentary secretary and aide of former Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen

Paavo Lipponen

Paavo Tapio Lipponen is a Finnish politician and former reporter. He was Prime Minister of Finland from 1995 to 2003, and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1993 to 2005...

. In May 2010, Jungner was elected as the party secretary of the SDP.

Mikael Jungner is married to YLE host Maria Matthes.