Mahir Alkaya graduated in service design and innovation management from the Delft University of Technology in 2012. He worked at the Ministry of Economic Affairs for six years while he became locally active in municipal politics in Amsterdam. In 2018 he became a member of parliament and in the 2021 parliamentary elections, he was in third place on the SP candidate list and was re-elected. Alkaya is responsible for finance, economic affairs, taxes, IT and mobility. He calls on the government not to privatize De Volksbank and advocates for the establishment of a National Payments and Savings Bank. In 2022 he released his book “Van wie wordt ons geld?” in which he writes about the rise of digital money and CBDC.