At the beginning of March 2023, Ms Piret Paukštys took up her five-year mandate at Eurojust as new National Member for Estonia. Prior to joining the EU's Agency for criminal justice cooperation, Ms Paukštys worked as state prosecutor in the Estonian Office of the Prosecutor General, where she specialised in the prosecution of economic, financial, and cybercrime cases as well as in international cooperation matters. Ms Paukštys succeeds Ms Laura Vaik.