Aili Keskitalo
Aili Keskitalo is a Norwegian Sami politician representing the Norwegian Sámi Association, who has served as the president of the Sami Parliament since 2017. She also served in this post from 2005-2007 and 2013-2016.
Prior to her current presidency, she served as president of the Sami Parliament of Norway in 2005, the third in its history and the first female President of any Sami Parliament. She stepped down in September 2007. The collapse of her coalition made way for the first ever non-NSR presidency, led by Egil Olli from the Norwegian Labour Party.
She has a Master in Public Administration from Copenhagen Business School, in which she compared the school systems in Norway and Greenland
Keskitalo was the first Sámi President whose mother tongue was not Sámi but Norwegian. However, she speaks Northern Sami fluently.
