Prior to entering politics in 2014, Lepomäki spent 10 years in investment banking, as Director at Royal Bank of Scotland and as senior analyst at Nordea. She has developed a model for transforming the welfare state into a digital sharing economy, called the Life Account. In 2018, she participated in the Bilderberg Conference in Turin. In April 2016, Lepomäki announced her candidature for the leadership of the National Coalition Party. In the first round of the leadership election on June 11, 2016, she received 15 percent of the votes and was not elected. Lepomäki has co-authored several reports on economics and the society such as "The Future of the Euro - The alternatives for Finland" (2014) and "The Life Account - A Social Security Reform" (2013). In 2018, she published her book "Vapauden Voitto" (“Victory of Freedom”, Otava), on how to reform the Nordic welfare model and the European Union. Lepomäki has lived with her family in Bonn, Germany as a child and completed the A-levels (Reifeprüfung diploma) at the German School in Helsinki. She is married and has two children. La República Argentina (sculpture)  La República Argentina () is a monumental sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Hugues, that was a central part of the Argentine Pavilion at the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1889. At the Paris Universal Exhibition held in 1889, 35 countries built enormous pavilions that were used by each nation to show its progress and cultural level. Each pavilion tried to represent the wealth of the participant nation. Argentina was one of the invited countries, which gave an opportunity for its political leadership to show the economic strength of a nation that had experienced major modernisation and transformation in the preceding twenty years. The Argentine Pavilion was in the Champ de Mars; a privileged place because of its nearness to the Eiffel Tower, which was the entrance to the exhibition. The Argentine Pavilion was designed in a European style, as compared to the Mexican and the Brazilian pavilions that emphasized their Latin American heritage. To build the Argentine Pavilion, the national government delegated the task of organizing a contest to an ad hoc committee chaired by the writer Eugenio Cambaceres. A demountable construction of iron was specified so as to be able to move the pavilion to Buenos Aires after the exhibition ended. The work of construction was awarded to the renowned French architect Albert Ballu, who came second in the contest.