Seija Toro

Last updated

Seija Toro is a Finnish diplomat and Counsellor for Foreign Affairs. [1] Toro holds a Master of Arts degree. From September 1, 2016, she has been a Roving Ambassador [2] at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for Mali, Niger, Ivory Coast and Senegal., [3] as well as the Special Representative on Sahel. [4] Before that she was the Ambassador of Finland to Maputo, Mozambique, from 1 November 2013. She started working with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1989. [1] [5]

Ambassador Toro has previously worked with Unicef in Costa Rica and in Cuba as Country Director, as the Nordic and Finnish Government's Board of Directors representative at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, and as a Regional Manager at the Ministry for Foreign Affair's Department of Africa and the Middle East [1] as well as in Finland's embassies in Lusaka, Rome and the United Nations Mission in New York. [6]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matti Anttonen</span> Finnish diplomat

Matti Kalervo Anttonen is a Finnish diplomat and the present Secretary of State for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland since 1 March 2018.

Marja-Liisa Kiljunen is a Finnish diplomat. She has been Finnish Ambassador to Lithuania and Belarus from 2008 to 2012.

Eva-Christina Mäkeläinen is a Finnish diplomat, a Licentiate of Social Sciences degree and a PhD in Philosophy. She served as deputy director of the Department for the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1976 to 1980. She has been an ambassador in Athens from 1980 to 1985, in Copenhagen 1985-1990 in Vienna and Ljubljana in 1995-1998 .

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Päivi Luostarinen</span> Finnish diplomat

Päivi Luostarinen is a Finnish diplomat. She has been employed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 1981 and served as Finnish Ambassador at the Finnish Embassy in London from September 2015 until June 2019.

Tarja Laitiainen is a Finnish diplomat. She started working for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1980. Laitianien was appointed as the Finnish Ambassador to Portugal in Lisbon on October 1, 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arja Makkonen</span> Finnish diplomat

Arja Makkonen is a Finnish diplomat. She is an ambassador from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in the Southern Caucasus region of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. She has previously served as Ambassador to Ukraine in Kyiv since 2011 and has worked since 2015, including in the Moscow and Warsaw Delegations. Prior to that, she has served as Adviser to the Minister of European Affairs and Foreign Trade. Makkonen joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1989.

Katja Pehrman is a Finnish diplomat currently serving as Senior Advisor and Focal Point for Women in the United Nations System at UN Women.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Terhi Hakala</span> Finnish diplomat

Terhi Katriina Hakala is a Finnish diplomat who has been serving as European Union Special Representative for Central Asia since 2021.

Maija Lähteenmäki is a Finnish diplomat. She has been Finland's ambassador to Australia in Canberra in 2010-2013 and retired there. She started working with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1974.

Riitta Hannele Resch is a Finnish diplomat. She is a leading expert at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Humanitarian Aid and Policy Unit. Resch worked as an ambassador in Manila from 2004 to 2008. She started working at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1982.

Anu-Maija Saarela is a Finnish lawyer and diplomat. She has been Ambassador of Finland to Tel Aviv since 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maria Serenius</span> Finnish diplomat

Maria Serenius is a Finnish diplomat. She was the Finnish Ambassador to Riga, from September 1, 2008, and retired in autumn 2012. She started at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1975.

Kirsti Eskelinen-Liukkonen was an Ambassador of Finland to Ankara from 2008 to 2012. She was the Finnish Ambassador to Latvia in Riga from 2000 to 2004 and after that she was head of the Eastern Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 2008. She started with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1973.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anne Lammila</span> Finnish diplomat

Raija Anne Lammila is a Finnish diplomat.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nina Vaskunlahti</span> Finnish diplomat

Nina Vaskunlahti is a Finnish diplomat. She currently serves as the Under-Secretary of State for external economic relations. She was the Finnish Ambassador to India in New Delhi from 2016 to 2019. Prior to that she was a Finnish Ambassador to Turkey in Ankara between 2012 and 2016. She started working with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1984.

Anne Meskanen is a Finnish diplomat. In 2024, she is Head of Mission at Finland’s Embassy in Beirut.

Leena-Kaisa Mikkola is a Finnish diplomat. She was Finnish Ambassador to Tel Aviv from 1 September 2011 to 30 August 2016. She joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1992. Before that, Mikkola worked at the Finnish Red Cross.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tuula Yrjölä</span> Finnish diplomat

Tuula Yrjölä is a Finnish diplomat. She is the Head of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe since 1 October 2016, where she was appointed by the OSCE Presidency in 2016. She was the Ambassador of Finland to Cairo from 2013 to 2016. She started working at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 1982.

Greta Hannele Voionmaa was a Finnish diplomat. She was the Ambassador of Finland to Algeria from 2008 to 2011 when the Finnish mission was reinstated to the embassy headed by an ambassador. After returning from Algeria in the autumn of 2015, she started as a Foreign Policy Adviser to the Speaker of Parliament. She died on 1 January 2016

Hanna Katariina Lehtinen is a Finnish diplomat.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Suurlähettiläsnimityksiä. Ulkoasiainministeriö 25.8.2016. Viitattu 27.3.2017
  2. ↑ "Roving Ambassador for Western Africa" . Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  3. ↑ "Roving ambassadors to Senegal, Suriname and Grenada, side accreditation to the Holy See" . Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  4. ↑ "Kun Suomen on mahduttava salkkuun – kiertävät suurlähettiläät verkottuvat laajasti ja pakkaavat kevyesti" (in Finnish). Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  5. ↑ Uusia suurlähettiläsnimityksiä. Ulkoasiainministeriö 8.9.2013. Viitattu 27.3.2017
  6. ↑ Tango koukutti suurlähettilään Maputossa. Ulkoasiainministeriö 11.6.2014. Viitattu 27.3.2017


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.