Antti Timonen
Antti Timonen is the Deputy Spokesperson of European Parliament President Roberta Metsola. He is an EU official, who served previously in the European Parliament’s Secretariat of the Bureau and the Quaestors. In the European Commission, he was Member of Cabinet and Communications Adviser to Vice-President Jyrki Katainen, and Principal Administrator in the newly established DG Defence Industry and Space.
He has previously worked in the European Parliament’s EPP Group as Member of Chairman Manfred Weber’s office, Head of the Communications Strategy Unit, as well as Policy Adviser in the Strategy Unit and in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In the EPP Group he has also been Head of the Internet and New Media Team and Press Adviser. His previous experiences include serving as a Political Adviser to MEP Piia-Noora Kauppi, as well as Spokesman for Alexander Stubb, during the latter’s time as Finnish Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade.