Johan Vasara (Labour Party) became State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport on 29^th October 2021.

Prior to that he held the post as Assistant Professor at Kongsbakken Upper Secondary School in Tromsø. In the period 2015–2019, Vasara was mayor of Kautokeino. He is a board member of the Tromsø Labour Party and has been a Sami parliamentary representative for the Labour Party, Parliamentary Deputy Leader of the Labour Party's Sami Parliamentary Group, leader of AUF in Finnmark and board member of the Finnmark Labour Party.