Born on 23 October 1981 in Helsinki, Elina Valtonen is a fourth-term Member of
Parliament, deputy chair of the National Coalition Party and mother of two
children.

In Parliament, she has served as vice chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee and in
the Defence Committee, Finance Committee and Grand Committee. Valtonen has
chaired the Finnish delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and served as
deputy member of the Finnish Delegation to the Council of Europe.

Before entering politics, Valtonen worked abroad in the private sector in various
countries, including for ten years in the financial sector in Copenhagen and London.
A former computer programmer, she has been involved in setting up several growth
companies.

Valtonen's first book Vapauden voitto (‘Freedom’s Victory’, Otava 2018) was the
most sold non-fiction book in Finland for several weeks. In addition to Finnish,
Valtonen speaks Swedish, English, German and French.