# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ville-itala
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:00:41.023Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ville-itala"
name: "Ville Itälä"
slug: "ville-itala"
description: "Ville Heimo Antero Itälä is a Finnish politician serving as Director-General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) since 2018. He was elected member of the Finnish Parliament (Eduskunta) from the district of Southwest Finland in 1995. Itälä served as the Minister of the Interior under Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen from September 2000 to April 2003. He was elected chairman of the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) in 2001. Following his resignation as party leader in 2004, he was succeeded by Jyrki Katainen. Itälä was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 29 February 2012. He was a member of the European Court of Auditors from 2012 until February 2018."
tagline: "Finnish politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ville_It%C3%A4l%C3%A4.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1959-05-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.872210666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "ڤيل ايتالا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_It%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Ville Itälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_It%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Ville Itälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_It%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Ville Itälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_It%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Ville Itälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_It%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Ville Itälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_It%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Ville Itälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_It%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Ville Itälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_It%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Ville Itälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_It%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Ville Itälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_It%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Ville Itälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1168762"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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