Ms. Tytti Tuppurainen is Leader of the Social Democratic Parliamentary Group in the Finnish Parliament and a member of Parliament´s Foreign Affairs Committee. She was elected in the Parliament in 2011, and prior to her election as Group Leader she was the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. During her first and second term in the Parliament she has been a vice-chair and a member in the Grand Committee (EU-Affairs). She is currently the foreign affairs spokesperson of the Social Democratic Party of Finland. In PM Sanna Marin’s government 2019-2023 Tuppurainen was Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering, the latter involving responsibility for state owned companies with market capitalisation of more than 50 billion Euros. Ms. Tuppurainen is member of the Municipal Council of her native City of Oulu since 2000. She is Leader of the Social Democratic Women in Finland since 2014 and member of the PES (Party of European Social Democrats) Presidency since 2012. She graduated from the University of Oulu and holds a master’s degree in the field of linguistics. She is married and a mother of two. Tuppurainen speaks Finnish, Swedish, English, German and basic level of Russian.