Piia-Noora Kauppi

[5] In 2000 she was involved with founding the Campaign for Parliamentary Reform, together with Cecilia Malmström, Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Nick Clegg; the group was later joined in 2004 by Alexander Stubb.

Kauppi left the European Parliament on 1 January 2009 to become managing director of the Federation of Finnish Financial Services, a lobbying group.

According to the organisers she had for a long time been advocating interests of the European banking industry as an MEP by working against regulations for the sector.

For example, in 2005 she was reported by The Wall Street Journal to have supported the banking lobby with watering down regulations against money-laundering.

[7] The organisers of the awards question her qualification to continuously participate in regulation efforts for a sector she would later be lobbying for.