Paula Pinho is a Portuguese EU civil servant and lawyer who has worked for the EU Commission since 2000 and has been its spokesperson since December 2024, after being appointed by its president Ursula von der Leyen. She is the director of the European Commission’s DG for Energy and has previously been part of Günther Oettinger's cabinets both as his quality of commissioner for digital economy and society and as commissioner for energy. She is also in the Directorate General for Trade and the Internal Market.