Jan Pellervo Vapaavuori (born 3 April 1965) is a Finnish politician, the former Minister of Economic Affairs, and the former mayor of Helsinki.

[4] He has been a member of the Parliament since 2003, from the constituency of Helsinki, and he represents the National Coalition Party.

[7] In November 2020 Vapaavuori announced that he will not be seeking re-election and plans to retire from politics.

He continued his studies in Helsinki, Uppsala, The Hague and Hanken School of Economics as well.

Vapaavuori was born into a bilingual family: his father, Panu, is a Finnish jurist and mother, Gun, was a Swedish teacher.