Leila Pietiläinen is the Administration Assistant at CoE. In the last five years before Leila joined the CoE, she was working in refugee shelters in Berlin, first in personalised supporting and mentoring for unaccompanied minor refugees, then in Administration. Before that, she worked in the context of the reunification of Germany for federal authorities and institutions, such as Treuhandanstalt, BvS and TLG Immobilien, for about 20 years
 
Leila holds a Master's degree in Anglistics and Germanistic Linguistics from the Technical University of Berlin. She speaks Finnish, German and English and also has a knowledge of Swedish.