Ms. Eva Biaudet was born in Helsinki and studied law at the University of Helsinki before becoming a Member of Parliament in 1991, where was member for 16 years. She has four children.

She was Minister of Health and Social Services and Minister of Gender from 1999-2000 and 2002-2003. Member of the Finnish Parliament between 1991–2006. Chairperson of her Parliamentary Fraction 1995–1999. During her tenure as a minister, Ms. Biaudet inter alia launched a Nordic-Baltic campaign against trafficking with her neighbour country colleagues and was strongly engaged in raising awareness and fostering public debate on the problem, leading to legislation. She led the initial work on the Social Partnership in the EU Northern Dimension. She also has a history of human rights work in non-governmental organizations, especially in the field of child protection, gender and refugees. Ms. Biaudet has acted as vice-head of the Swedish People's Party.

Ms. Biaudet was appointed OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings in October 2006.

Ms. Biaudet and her office, the Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (OSR), help build the political will to combat the problem. The OSR, especially through the Special Representative herself, engages in a high level policy dialogue with the participating States and civil society representatives to promote the implementation of anti-trafficking commitments. The OSCE Action Plan (2003) provides the framework for all anti-trafficking efforts by the Organization.

The OSR co-ordinates anti-trafficking efforts within the OSCE and cooperates with international organizations as well as with relevant actors from civil society. The OSR provides expert support and technical assistance in the three interlinked areas of prosecution of offenders, protection of victims and prevention of this crime. The OSR encourages the development of monitoring mechanisms, such as a National Rapporteur function, a focus on special at-risk groups and addressing demand.

The OSCE has played an early and active role as a catalyst for international co-operation and national action. As countries of origin, transit or destination, trafficking in human beings affects all 56 OSCE participating States. The OSCE is ideally equipped to address the complexity of Trafficking in Human Beings, not only because of this geographic diversity, but because of its unique cross dimensional approach to comprehensive security comprising the political/military, economic/environmental and human dimensions.