Elina Valtonen

Elina Valtonen      (politician)
Born	October 23, 1981 Helsinki
Nationality	Finnish
Alma mater	Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki University of Technology
Parents	Kari Valtonen
Spouse	Jukka Lepomäki
Interests	Basic income
Finnish politician awho attended the 2018 Bilderberg at age 36. Promotes the idea of Basic income

Elina Maria Valtonen (formerly married as Lepomäki) a Finnish politician and businesswoman. She attended her first Bilderberg in 2018.

She has been a member of parliament for the coalition since 2014. Valtonen has previously held management positions in the financial sector and research director of the think tank Libera . Valtonen has a master's degree in engineering and a master's degree in economics and she has promoted idea of basic income.

Background

Valtonen spent his first years in Oulunkylä , Helsinki, where she and his older brother attended an American kindergarten until she moved to Oulunkylä elementary school . In late 1990, the family moved to Bonn , Germany , where Valtonen attended German schools. The family moved back to Finland in 1995, and Valtonen continued his studies at the Helsinki German School. In 2000, she completed the Reifeprüfung matriculation examination and in the fall of the same year began his studies at the Helsinki University of Technology in the information networks training program. Later, she changed his subject to information technology and in 2001 also started his studies at the Helsinki University of Economics. Valtonen graduated with a master's degree in engineering from the University of Technology majoring in information security technology in 2004 and a master's degree in economics from the Helsinki School of Economics majoring in financial economics in 2005.

During his studies, she worked as Martti Tiuri 's part-time parliamentary assistant 2001–2003 and was a programmer at Valuatum Oy in 2003. During her banking career, Valtonen worked as a senior analyst at Nordea from 2003–2007 and later as a manager at Royal Bank of Scotland from 2007–2012. In April of the same year, she was named chairman of the board of think tank Libera.

Political career

Elina Valtonen became an MP from the Uusimaa constituency in July 2014, when Jyrki Katainen took over as European Union commissioner. In the 2015 parliamentary elections, she was elected for a further term with 6,541 votes. She was a member of the finance committee and its tax division as well as the municipality and health division, and a deputy member of the foreign affairs committee and the Council of Europe.

In the 2019 parliamentary elections , she was elected to her third term with the largest number of votes in the Uusimaa electoral district, 19,292. Her election budget was more than 115,000 euros. Among the financiers was fellow Bilderberger Björn Wahlroos. In September 2020 she was elected as the vice-chairman of the party.

In the 2021 municipal elections, Valtonen was a candidate in Helsinki and was elected to the Helsinki City Council.

Views

Valtonen has described his line as Macronian, according to French president Emmanuel Macron. She considers the market economy an enabler of individual freedoms and the best solution to poverty. [24] Valtonen is in favor of lower income taxation and has spoken in favor of easing the taxation of work, one of which is equal taxation of earned income. She supports social security based on basic security, business freedoms and dismantling norms in matters of individual freedom. [26] Valtonen has criticized special treatment of labor market organizations in legislation and demanded the removal of the general binding nature of collective agreements. In addition, she has spoken about the necessity of downsizing the oversized public sector.

Valtonen has a positive attitude towards immigration in pursuit of a better standard of living. She calls for the labor market to be made more flexible so that especially young people, those who are able to work part-time, the disabled, those who have moved from other places and those who change careers can better catch up with work aside than at present. [29]

Valtonen says she supports a dynamic welfare economy, where social security opens up options for people and always enables additional earnings without losing basic security. [30]

Valtonen co-wrote the Perustili report (2013) published by Libera , as well as the work The future of the euro – Finland's alternatives (2014).

In 2016, she supported the abolition of direct business subsidies, which would have saved approximately one billion euros, which Valtonen would have used to reduce corporate tax by six percentage points. In the same year, Valtonen envisioned that there would be no corporate tax after 20 years.

In September 2017, Valtonen proposed an experiment in which the regulation of restaurants would be completely dismantled in some areas. According to her, customers would protect the hygiene and other safety of the restaurant with the help of social media.

Basic income

In the Libera think tank, Valtonen came up with the idea of ​​a complete reform of the income transfer system, a basic account, based on which Libera published a report called Basic Account together with professor Paul Lillrank and freelance journalist Marko Hamilo . In the model, every adult Finn would get a basic account with an initial capital of 20,000 euros, from which money can be withdrawn freely within the monthly withdrawal limit. The account is capitalized by working. A portion of each salary is transferred directly to the basic account, and you can also save more than this into the account. Everyone can freely invest the funds they have saved that exceed the initial capital, and they can also be used to hire another person by transferring money from one basic account to another. Employer payments are made automatically. Income taxesis paid only when money is withdrawn from the account. The account behaves like a basic income , as it enables work and social benefits to be combined. The main idea behind the model is that work should always be worth it. The basic account can be frozen, and any positive account balance is freed up for free use at retirement age. Negative balance will be forgiven. Income security reformEdit

In January 2015, Sitra published an expert report with Valtonen, Heikki Hiilamo , Osmo Soininvaara , Juhana Vartiainen and Tuomas Pöysti on reforming earnings-related unemployment insurance. The report proposes extending earnings security to all Finns and transferring security from unemployment funds to the state. The proposal would shorten the duration of earnings-related daily allowance to 250 days. The goal of the reform is to increase the supply of work and make unemployment insurance more encouraging.

Personal life

Valtonen has two children with Jukka Lepomäki. In January 2021, Valtonen announced that she was divorcing her husband and in April 2021 she decided to take her old surname back.

Elina Valtonen lived in Etelä-Espoo in 2016. Her father is political journalist Kari Valtonen.

While living in Germany, Valtonen started playing basketball.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2018	7 June 2018	10 June 2018	Italy Turin Hotel Torino Lingotto Congress	The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government.

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