# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eija-riitta-korhola
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:26:25.231Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eija-riitta-korhola"
name: "Eija-Riitta Korhola"
slug: "eija-riitta-korhola"
description: "Eija-Riitta Korhola is a Finnish politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP). She served three terms, first with the Finnish Christian Democrats between 1999–2003 and then with the National Coalition Party from 2004 to 2014, being part of the European People's Party the whole time. During her years as a MEP, Korhola served on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. She was also a member of the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, and acted as a deputy both in the Committee on Budgetary Control and in the Committee on Foreign Affairs. She was also briefly MEP from June to July 2024 after the resignation of Petri Sarvamaa."
tagline: "Finnish politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eija-Riitta_Korhola.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1959-06-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.29
  momentum:             6.521739130434782
  historical:           8.137041333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.korhola.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%DA%86%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "ايچا ريتا كورولا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eija-Riitta_Korhola"
    title: "Eija-Riitta Korhola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eija-Riitta_Korhola"
    title: "Eija-Riitta Korhola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eija-Riitta_Korhola"
    title: "Eija-Riitta Korhola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eija-Riitta_Korhola"
    title: "Eija-Riitta Korhola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eija-Riitta_Korhola"
    title: "Eija-Riitta Korhola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eija-Riitta_Korhola"
    title: "Eija-Riitta Korhola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eija-Riitta_Korhola"
    title: "Eija-Riitta Korhola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eija-Riitta_Korhola"
    title: "Eija-Riitta Korhola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460614"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump