Sakari Ropponen elected Former of the Board and Tilda Leikola Chair of the Representative Council
At the meeting AYYE 9/2024 on Tuesday, 29 Oct, AYY’s Representative Council elected Sakari Ropponen as the Former of the Board and Tilda Leikola as the Chair of the 2025 Representative Council.
Former of the Board Sakari Ropponen is a sixth-year student of Automation and Systems Engineering. For the past year, he has been AYY’s Chair of the Representative Council. Before that Ropponen has been active in the Teekkari Section, Representative Council and the Automation and Systems Engineering Guild.
“I am grateful for the trust of the Representative Council. I look forward to next year's challenges and cranking”, Ropponen enthuses.
The Former of the Board will make a proposal on the 2025 AYY Board to the Representative Council.
Chair of the Representative Council Tilda Leikola is a fourth-year student of Economics and a second-year student of Engineering Psychology. During this year Leikola has been the Chair of KY Board and board member for the KY Foundation. Earlier, she has been member of the KY Board responsible for corporate relations and internationality, tutored first-year economics students and been active in KY-Sail.
“Thank you for the trust! It’s lovely to get to work for the whole Aalto community”, Leikola rejoices.
The Chair of the Representative Council is responsible for the general activities of the RepCo, such as the preparation of meetings and the chairing of meetings.
Congratulations to the elected persons and thank you to all applicants!
There’s still time to apply to become a Member of AYY Board until 3 Nov or Vice Chair of the RepCo until 21 Nov. Read more on this page: https://www.ayy.fi/en/join-our-activities
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