Holla-Maini studied German law at King's College in London[2] from 1988 to 1992 with a foreign part at the University of Passau (1990–1991) and graduated with a bachelor's degree and LL.B.

[1] Holla-Maini worked as a business development manager at Airbus Defense and Space from 1997 to 2004 in Munich and Brussels.

The idea was to increase communication between areas of global interest using exchange programmes and other techniques to break down information silos.

[4] On 26 June 2023 Holla-Maini was appointed director of the UN Office for Space Affairs in Vienna by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

Holla-Maini predicted that it would take some time to agree international rules, but the UN had issued guidelines in 2019 and these could be the basis of national policies until then.