Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
Miapetra Kumpula-Natri is a Finnish politician of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. She was a Member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2024.
Political career
Member of the European Parliament, 2014–2024
Kumpula-Natri was a Member of the European Parliament from the 2014 European elections. In parliament, she served on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. On the committee, she was the Parliament's rapporteur on European Union roaming regulations and on the European strategy for data.From 2021, Kumpula-Nari was part of the Parliament's delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe. In addition to her committee assignments, she was also part of the Parliament's delegation for relations with the United States; she previously belonged to the Parliament's delegations to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Association Committee and to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly from 2014 until 2019.
Kumpula-Natri was a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity, the European Parliament Intergroup on Fighting against Poverty and the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights.
Following the 2019 elections, Kumpula-Natri was part of a cross-party working group in charge of drafting the European Parliament's four-year work program on digitization.
According to Politico Europe, Kumpula-Natri was a candidate to become the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres's, first-ever Envoy on Technology in 2021; instead, the role went to Chilean diplomat Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond.