AYY Board elected for 2023
Members of the AYY Board for 2023 are:
Ida Parkkinen, SCI, Chair
Niina Tapanainen, ELEC
Weixin Niemi, BIZ
Totti Korpua, ARTS
Ene Rönkkö, ARTS
Oskari Järvinen, SCI
Mantė Žygelytė, ARTS
Toni Niemi, BIZ
Antti Henriksson, CHEM
Fanni Mattsson, ENG
The responsibilities are formally decided at the first meeting of the Board. The new Board will begin its term of office in January 2023.
"The new Board has excellent skills to promote the vision for the future of the Student Union. I’m confident that with this composition, we’ll be able to bring up the views of all our members in operational decision-making", says Ida Parkkinen, Former of the AYY Board and Chair of the 2023 Board.
At the same 11/2022 meeting on Thursday 23 November, the Representative Council elected its vice chairs for 2023. Jaakko Sirén was elected the First Vice Chair and Tomas Kurenniemi the Second Vice Chair. At the previous meeting on 27 Oct, Erik Halttunen was elected Chair of the Representative Council and Ida Parkkinen the Former of the Board. Read the previous release.
Further information:
Ida Parkkinen, Former of the AYY Board and Chair of the 2023 Board, [email protected]
Aalto University Student Union AYY is an advocacy and service organization for approximately 15,000 Aalto University students of technology, business and arts. AYY represents the interests of its members in academic and social affairs, in particular.
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