Roger Nordlund (born 19 November 1957) is a politician in ÃÂ land, an autonomous and unilingually Swedish territory of Finland. Nordlund is a member of the ÃÂ land Centre party and previously served as Premier and Deputy Premier of the Government of ÃÂ land.
Nordlund was born on 19 November 1957. He studied economics at ÃÂ bo Akademi University in Turku.
In 1979 he held his first prominent political position, becoming Chairman of the àländsk Ungcenter. A few years later, in 1983, he became a member of the Jomala Municipal Council, which is the second-largest city in àland.
In 1983, Nordlund became a member of the Lagting, which is the Parliament of ÃÂ land, representing the ÃÂ land Centre party until 1987. That year, he was appointed the chairman of the party, a position he held until 2007. In 1991, he left parliament to become the Minister of Education and Culture in the government of ÃÂ land, which he did for four years until 1995. That year, he briefly joined the Lagting again, but again left to take on another position in the local government. This time, he was the Vice lantrÃÂ¥d (Deputy Premier) of the government until 1999, when he officially became the LantrÃÂ¥d (Premier), a position he held until 2007. Nordlund in 2006 stated that ÃÂ land should have one seat in the European Parliament, arguing that they needed representation. The proposal that the parliament sent to the Finnish Parliament regarding getting a seat was promptly rejected.
When his mandate ended, he returned to parliament, which he served in for over a decade afterwards until 2020. In 2010, he notes that the ÃÂ land Centre Party felt like they had outsider status with Finnish parties like the Finnish Centre Party, and explained that they had chosen to caucus with the Swedish People's Party because it advocated for Swedish-language rights and consistently were part of governments in Finland. In parliament, he held the position of Speaker multiple times, from 2007 to 2011, and again from 2019 to 2020. Simultaneously, he once again held the position of Vice lantrÃÂ¥d in the government, a position he served in from 2011 to 2015.