Anna Aurora Wennäkoski (LL.M., M.Sc.) works as a Senior Specialist at the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications. Currently, her work focuses on the Data Act in the framework of the data economy.  Her expertise includes privacy as well as data regulation and policy issues, and she has several years of experience also of working as an in-house lawyer as well. She has studied law in Helsinki and at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne as well as at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. She is also a former Europaeum Scholar and is conducting doctoral research in communication law.