Aura Salla, PhD, Member of the European Parliament (EPP). Before being elected as a member of the European Parliament 2024 she served as a member of the Finnish Parliament 2023-2024. Previously, Salla worked as Managing Public Policy Director, Head of EU Affairs and the office at Meta (previous Facebook) Brussels. Before joining Facebook, Aura was working in the European Commission as a Foreign Policy and Communications Adviser in the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), in-house think thank to President Jean-Claude Juncker. Previously she served as a Member of Cabinet of Jyrki Katainen, European Commission Vice President responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness. Before joining the Commission 2014, she worked in consultancy company Recommended Finland as a Project Manager specialising in Public Affairs and EU Communications and before that as a speechwriter and political adviser in the Finnish Parliament. She also served from 2018-2020 as a Chairwoman of the Party Council of the Coalition Party Finland / the EPP. Aura is a Doctor of Political Science from Turku University. Her dissertation focused on politicisation of the Europeans Commission during the euro crisis 2009-2014. She has also studied Economics of the European Union at the University of Leipzig, Germany and has been a visiting lecturer on European economics at Harvard University. Since 2017 Aura has been a non resident research fellow in the Circular Economy Research Center at École des Ponts Business School Paris.