Miapetra Kumpula-Natri (born 1972 in Vaasa, Finland) is a Member of the European Parliament representing Finland, S&D Group and The Social Democratic Party of Finland.

 

Kumpula-Natri is a member of the ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, where she has focused on energy and digitalization.

 

She’s also a member of Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly and Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Association Committee and a substitute of the EMPL Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. In addition, Kumpula-Natri is the chair of the Parliament’s Bioeconomy Working Group, member of the Internet Forum and member of the board of European Energy Forum.

 

For 11 years, Mrs. Kumpula-Natri was a member of the Finnish parliament. She was, among other things, chairperson of the parliament’s Grand Committee. She’s been a member of municipal council of Vaasa for 20 years and she’s currently the chairperson of the Assembly of the Ostrobothnia Regional Council.

 

By education Mrs. Kumpula-Natri in an engineer. She’s also studied economics. Mrs. Kumpula-Natri speaks Finnish, Swedish, English, French and Russian. She is married and a mother of two.