Maija Celmina
Working in the Cabinet of European Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis, she is responsible for the Ukraine portfolio, with a particular focus on financing Ukraine through the EU and beyond, including the G7-led Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) Loans initiative. She also covers EU digital policies from an economic portfolio perspective, including the Digital Omnibus, a simplification proposal that forms part of the European Commission’s 12 simplification proposals. Previously, she worked with Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis from 2009 to 2014 during Latvia’s accession to the euro area, with a particular focus on communication strategy. Now at the Commission one of the projects with highly importance is digital euro.
Tuesday 29 September Day Two Plenary Agenda
Panel 8: FS – Finance as digital infrastructure: open finance, payments and the data economy
- How can financial regulators and data protection authorities work together to improve mutual understanding and effective oversight for banks, fintechs and crypto firms operating across jurisdictions?
- How can open finance and FIDA enable competition, innovation and secure
data-sharing across European financial services? - How should digital wallets, crypto-assets and the digital euro fit into trusted, cross-border payments systems — and what does this mean for data governance and supervision?




