EVENTS IN 2015
11.12.2015 Atlantic Council of Finland Annual Autumn Meeting
5.11.2015 Finland and NATO: 20 Years of Partnership – A Springboard for the Future?
15.9.2015 Mr Timo S. Koster, Director, Defence Policy and Capabilities NATO visited Helsinki
4.9.2015 A keynote speech by Edward Lucas on Baltic Sea Security in a Cold Climate
13.7.2015 Finland’s Security – Which are the options?
29.5.2015 Atlantic Council of Finland Annual Spring Meeting
6.2.2015 Visit from the board of the Atlantic Council of Sweden to Helsinki
11.12.2015
Atlantic Council of Finland Annual Autumn Meeting
Friday 11 December 2015 at 15.00 in Helsinki
Speaker:
Ambassador Charles C. Adams, Jr.
Ambassador of the United States to Finland
5.11.2015
Finland and NATO: 20 Years of Partnership – A Springboard for the Future?
Thursday, 5 November 2015 at 13.30 – 15.30 in Helsinki
Keynote speech:
Dr. Jamie Shea
Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges NATO
Speakers:
Ms Anne Sipiläinen
Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Security Policy
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Ms Helena Partanen
Director, Defence Policy
Ministry of Defence of Finland
Mr Leif Blomqvist
Ambassador, Finland’s First Head of Mission to NATO (1997 – 2002)
Chair:
Mr Pertti Salolainen
MP, Minister (Hon.), Vice-Chair of the Atlantic Council of Finland,
Vice-Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Parliament of Finland
15.9.2015
Mr Timo S. Koster, Director, Defence Policy and Capabilities NATO visited Helsinki and met the management of the Atlantic Council of Finland
4.9.2015
A keynote speech on Baltic Sea Security in a Cold Climate
by Mr Edward Lucas, Senior Editor at The Economist
on Friday, 4 September 2015 at 9.00 – 11.00 at Aalto University
Comments to the keynote speech:
Dr Jarno Limnéll
Professor of Cyber Security at Aalto University
Chair of the event:
Mr Pertti Salolainen
MP, Minister (Hon.), Vice-Chair of the Atlantic Council of Finland, Vice-Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Parliament of Finland, Finnish Ambassador to Great Britain in 1996-2004
Watch a video recording of the event
The CV of Mr Lucas (edwardlucas.com)
The latest report by Mr Lucas on Baltic Sea Security: The Coming Storm (cepa.org)
21.8.2015
Finland’s anniversaries in international organizations: UN 60, OSCE 40, EU 20 and NATO Partnership 20
How have the UN, OSCE, EU and NATO affected Finland’s security?
The event was organized together with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Säätytalo, Helsinki
Opening remarks:
Pirkko Hämäläinen
Under-Secretary of State, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Speakers:
Timo Kantola
Deputy Director General, Political Department, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Katja Pehrman
Finland’s ambassador to the OSCE
Kai Sauer
Finland’s ambassador to the UN
Pilvi-Sisko Vierros-Villeneuve
Finland’s ambassador to the EU
Chairman:
Liisa Jaakonsaari
Member of the European Parliament
Chairperson of the Board, Atlantic Council of Finland
13.7.2015
Finland’s Security – Which are the options?
How to strengthen Finland’s security? Alone, with NATO, Sweden, the Nordics or the EU?
A discussion at the SuomiAreena in Pori with:
Tuomas Forsberg, Professor of International Relations, University of Tampere
Tommi Haapala, LtCol, Chief of Staff, Pori Brigade
Helena Partanen, Defence Counsellor, Director of Defence Policy Unit, Ministry of Defence
Leif Blomqvist, Ambassador, served as Finland’s ambassador to the European Community, the United Kingdom and NATO
The language of the event was Finnish.
29.5.2015
Atlantic Council of Finland Annual Spring Meeting
Speaker: Mr. Jaakko Laajava, Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Security Policy, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Venue: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Helsinki
6.2.2015
Visit from the board of the Atlantic Council of Sweden to Helsinki
