Elina Valtonen

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Elina Valtonen
Elina Valtonen in 2008
Member of the Finnish Parliament for Uusimaa
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 July 2014
Personal details
Born	(1981-10-23) 23 October 1981 (age 39) Helsinki, Finland
Political party	National Coalition Party
Residence	Espoo
Alma mater	Helsinki University of Technology Helsinki School of Economics
Website	lepomäki.net

Elina Maria Valtonen (former 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]

Valtonen 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 .^[2]

Prior to entering politics in 2014, Valtonen 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, Valtonen announced her candidature for the leadership of the National Coalition Party. In the first round of the leadership election on 11 June 2016 she received 15 percent of the votes and was not elected.^[4]

Valtonen 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.

Valtonen lived with her family in Bonn, Germany as a child and completed A-levels (Reifeprüfung diploma) at the German School in Helsinki. Valtonen has two children.

In September 2020, Valtonen filed for divorce from Jukka Lepomäki, and in April 2021 she announced that she changed her surname back to her maiden name.^[5]

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External links[]

• Official website
• Lepomäki on the website of the Parliament

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