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Elina Lepomäki | |
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| Member of the Finnish Parliament for Uusimaa | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 October 1981 Helsinki, Finland |
| Political party | National Coalition Party |
| Residence | Espoo |
| Alma mater | Helsinki University of Technology Helsinki School of Economics |
| Website | lepomäki.net |
Elina Maria Lepomäki (born 23 October 1981 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician. A member of the National Coalition Party, she has represented the constituency of Uusimaa in the Parliament of Finland since July 2014.[1]
Lepomäki holds a master's degree in both technology and financial economics from Helsinki University of Technology and Helsinki School of Economics.[1] She is an owner in several technology start-ups[citation needed] and Chair of the Board in the free-market think tank Libera.[2]
Prior to entering politics in 2014, Lepomäki spent 10 years in investment banking, as Director at Royal Bank of Scotland and as senior analyst at Nordea. She has developed a model for transforming the welfare state into a digital sharing economy, called the Life Account.[3] In 2018, she participated in the Bilderberg Conference in Turin.
In April 2016, Lepomäki announced her candidature for the leadership of the National Coalition Party. In the first round of the leadership election on June 11, 2016, she received 15 percent of the votes and was not elected.[4]
Lepomäki has co-authored several reports on economics and the society such as "The Future of the Euro - The alternatives for Finland" (2014) and "The Life Account - A Social Security Reform" (2013)[3]. In 2018, she published her book Vapauden Voitto (“Victory of Freedom”, Otava), on how to reform the Nordic welfare model and the European Union.
Lepomäki has lived with her family in Bonn, Germany as a child and completed the A-levels (Reifeprüfung diploma) at the German School in Helsinki. She is married and has two children.
References
- ^ a b "Elina Lepomäki". Parliament of Finland.
- ^ "Mikä Libera?". Libera.
- ^ a b "The Finnish model of welfare for the digital age". Financial Times. 2016-03-17.
- ^ "Stubb ja Orpo taistelevat toisella kierroksella – Orpo tarvitsee voittoon vain 11 ääntä". Yle News.
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