Finland’s Sanna Marin is the youngest serving prime minister in the world. 

At just 34, Sanna Marin has risen through the ranks of Finnish politics rapidly.

By Sahar Esfandiari and Melissa Wiley for Business Insider

photo:  Reuters

On December 10, Sanna Marin became the prime minister of Finland, making the 34-year-old the youngest prime minister the country has ever had, and the third woman to lead the country.

Marin is also the youngest serving prime minister in the world.

Formerly Finland’s Minister of Transport and Communications, Marin entered politics aged just 27 and became an MP in 2015 at 30.

She was chosen by the Social Democratic Party to take over from Antti Rinne, following criticism over the way he handled a postal strike, according to Reuters.

Take a look at the life of the woman who is the world’s youngest serving prime minister.

Marin was born in Finland’s capital city Helsinki in 1985 and lived in various cities around the country before her family settled in the southern city of Tampere.

In Tampere, Marin was brought up in a same-sex family with her mother and her mother’s female partner.

Marin describes herself as coming from a “rainbow family,” and in 2015 she told Finnish media how growing up she felt “invisible” because her family members “weren’t recognized as a real family.”

Her upbringing had a profound effect on her politics. “For me, people have always been equal. It’s not a matter of opinion. That’s the foundation for everything,” she said in a 2015 interview.

The first person in her family to go to university, Marin graduated from Prikkala High School in 2004 and went on to study Administrative Sciences at the University of Tampere.

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