About me
Pia Lindholm works as a Deputy Head of Unit for Civil Justice in Directorate-General Justice and Consumers of the European Commission. She studied law in Helsinki and London and economics in Brussels and trained as a judge in Finland. She joined the Commission in 1995 from the Finnish Ministry of Justice and has worked in a number of different fields in the Commission before joining the Civil Justice Unit in 2017. She has followed the situation concerning SLAPPs in the EU since 2018 and led the Commission team which prepared and negotiated the 2024 Anti-SLAPP Directive.