Anna Laukkanen

From a Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd biog note:

Anna holds an MA in International Peace and Security from King's College, London, and a BA in International Studies from the University of Birmingham. She has previously worked for the Finnish diplomatic service, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and Reuters. Anna has considerable experience of monitoring parliament and government, and of intelligence-gathering and policy research for a variety of clients from the transport, planning and environment sectors. She is familiar with the key political institutions in the UK and in European Union.

At Whitehouse her portfolio includes a number of clients with an interest in health policy and regulation, particularly in obesity, food and nutrition issues. She played a key role in our successful lobbying campaign in Brussels on the Regulation on Nutrition and Health Claims Made on Food, and supports our work for the European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance. Anna has also handled complex portfolios on intellectual property rights in the digital environment.