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Live On Stage
Monday November 10 2025, 7:30pm GMT

The Courage to Lead, with Sanna Marin, Former Prime Minister of Finland

Politics &
Economics

Sanna Marin is a trailblazer in modern politics. When she became Prime Minister of Finland in 2019, she made history: at 34 she was the youngest ever leader of her country and the youngest leader in the world at the time. 

As Prime Minister she confronted significant challenges. She led Finland through the COVID-19 pandemic, helped the country navigate neighbouring Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and led Finland’s rapid joining of NATO – the swiftest entry for any country in the alliance’s history.

On November 10, she joins us live to discuss her new book, Hope in Action. She will talk about the political challenges facing Europe and the world today, how she coped with her personal life becoming public, including the incident that sparked a media frenzy and prompted women, including Hillary Clinton and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to express their support. And she will explore how we can all develop the courage to lead and act for the change we want to see in the world.

Hope in Action: A Memoir from the Former Prime Minister of Finland About the Courage to Lead (Hardback)
by Sanna Marin

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Event Name

The Courage to Lead, with Sanna Marin, Former Prime Minister of Finland



Speaker
  • Sanna Marin

    Former Prime Minister of Finland

Host
  • Kavita Puri

    Journalist, broadcaster and host of Three Million

Speakers are subject to change.


Location
  • Emmanuel Centre
  • 9-23 Marsham Street
  • London
  • SW1P 3DW
Time
  • Monday 10 November 2025
  • 7:30pm to 8:30pm GMT





Speakers

Speaker

Sanna Marin

Former Prime Minister of Finland


Sanna Marin is the former Prime Minister of Finland. She made history as the longest-serving female prime minister of Finland, leading a coalition government entirely headed by women. In addition to the historic challenges during her leadership, Marin’s government passed many progressive reforms in Finland, including the world’s most ambitious climate laws aiming for carbon neutrality by 2035, as well as major reforms improving healthcare, equality, education and human rights. She joined the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change as a strategic counsellor, and advises countries, governments and leaders on such policy issues as good governance, technology, climate and gender equality.
Host

Kavita Puri

Journalist, broadcaster and host of Three Million


Award-winning journalist, broadcaster and executive producer. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed Partition Voices: Untold British Stories, based on her BBC Radio 4 series which won the Royal Historical Society's Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History prize. She is also the creator, writer and presenter of Three Million on BBC Sounds which was named a Podcast of the year in the Times, Guardian/Observer and This Week. The series won many awards, including Gold for Best New Podcast at the British Podcast Awards 2024, and the same year Puri was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2024. She is the Chair of the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2025.  

Speakers are subject to change.