Saara Ilvessalo: Experience and passion to improve Turku
- Master of Laws
- University teacher in law
- Executive manager and Baltic Sea scholar
- Turku City Council member
- Vice Chair for Turku City Council
- Member of the Regional Council of Southwest Finland
I am a solution-oriented lawyer and a realistic optimist. I believe in fact-based decision-making that builds on the best available information and takes advantage of both passion and experience. I have worked for a sustainable society for more than ten years from local to international level.
My hobbies include playing the drums, singing, exercising at the gym, reading and reading Nordic detective stories as well as Guiding and Scouting. I am involved in politics because I want to do my part in building a better world.
My strategy for a Turku where problems of tomorrow are solved today
A Turku where sustainable moving and transport is effortless
- More pedestrian areas and cycling lanes, quality bicycle parking
- Efficiency to bus transport, tramline construction and new tramline connections underway
- Let’s design and build a sustainable, comfortable, unobstructed Turku that respects history
Let’s take the Baltic Sea, local nature and the climate seriously – for the sake of our grandchildren
- Let’s be pioneers in the protection of the Baltic Sea
- Let’s cherish the nature in our city, in greenspaces and green-roofs
- Let’s develop the most ambitious climate goal into concrete decisions
The right for everyone to get professional help in time
- Good quality mental health services with easy access
- Let’s get rid of poverty with employment, apartment politics and sufficient services
- Let’s invest in preventative services – for young people, families with children and seniors
Turku as the forerunner of civilisation and culture
- Culture creating welfare for all: let’s make both grass roots culture and high culture flourish
- Let’s support culture and event businesses over this exceptional time
- Academic cooperation creates a thriving city and its makers
