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The Atlantic Council of Finland has a Chair, two Vice-Chairs, a Board of Directors and a Secretary General.<\/span><\/p>\n The first Chairman of the Council was Minister (Hon.), Ambassador Mr. Jaakko Iloniemi<\/strong> (1999-2001). He was succeeded by Minister (Hon.), Ambassador Mr. Paavo Rantanen<\/strong> (2002-2004), Director of the Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA, Dr. Risto E. J. Penttil\u00e4<\/strong> (2005-2008) and Minister (Hon.) Mrs. Liisa Jaakonsaari<\/strong> (2009-2023).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n B O A R D\u00a0 \u00a0O F \u00a0\u00a0D I R E C T O R S\u00a0 \u00a02 0 2 6<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Chair of the Board<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Jyrki Katainen<\/strong>, Former Prime Minister of Finland and Vice President of EU Commission, Head of Group Public Affairs, Nordea Bank<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Vice-Chairs<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Jari Haapiainen<\/strong>, Senior Adviser in EU, Foreign, Security and Defence Policy, Parliamentary Group of the Centre Party of Finland<\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Esa Rautalinko<\/strong>, Chairman of the Board of Directors, PIA (Finnish Defence and Aerospace Industries PIA), Leadership Advisor (Patria Oyj)<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Members of the Board\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Ms. Minna Aila<\/strong>, Senior Advisor (Konecranes)<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Tuomas Forsberg<\/strong>, Professor of International Relations<\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Jani Kokko<\/strong>, MP, Parliament of Finland<\/span><\/p>\n Ambassador<\/strong> Klaus Korhonen<\/strong>, Strategy Unit, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland; Former Permanent Representative of Finland to NATO<\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Janne Kuusela<\/strong>, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence of Finland<\/span><\/p>\n General Jarmo Lindberg<\/strong>, MP, Parliament of Finland; Former Chief of Defence and Commander of the Finnish Defence Forces<\/span><\/p>\n Ms. Laura Saarikoski<\/strong>, Journalist, CEO at The Helsingin Sanomat Foundation<\/span><\/p>\n Ms. Riikka Slunga-Poutsalo<\/strong>, State Secretary to Minister of Finance of Finland<\/span><\/p>\n Mr.<\/strong> Stefan Wallin<\/strong>, Senior Advisor, Former Minister of Defence of Finland<\/span><\/p>\n Captain (Navy) Kaarle Wikstr\u00f6m<\/strong>, Defence, Military, Naval and Air Attach\u00e9, Embassy of Finland to the United States of America\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Secretary General<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n Ms. Terhi Suominen<\/strong>, M.Pol.Sc.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 The Atlantic Council of Finland has a Chair, two Vice-Chairs, a Board of Directors and a Secretary General. The first Chairman of the Council was Minister (Hon.), Ambassador Mr. Jaakko Iloniemi (1999-2001). He was succeeded by Minister (Hon.), Ambassador Mr. Paavo Rantanen (2002-2004), Director of the Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA, Dr. Risto … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3390,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/atlanttiseura.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/atlanttiseura.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/atlanttiseura.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atlanttiseura.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atlanttiseura.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"http:\/\/atlanttiseura.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"http:\/\/atlanttiseura.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3404\/revisions\/3994"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atlanttiseura.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/atlanttiseura.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}