Matti Kalervo Anttonen (born 27 November 1957)CV Matti Anttonen
Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö, viitattu 3.1.2015. is a Finnish diplomat and the present Secretary of State for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland since 1 March 2018.

Early life and education

Anttonen was born in

Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...

and graduated from the

Turku School of Economics Turku School of Economics ( Finnish ''Turun kauppakorkeakoulu'') is a unit of the University of Turku located in Turku, Finland. It was established as an independent higher education business school in 1950, until it was acquired by the state in 1 ...

, obtaining a master's degree from the

University of Turku sv, Åbo universitet , latin_name = Universitas Aboensis , image_name = University of Turku.svg , motto = ''Vapaan kansan lahja vapaalle tieteelle'' , established = 1920 , type ...

Career

Anttonen joined the

Ministry for Foreign Affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The entit ...

in 1986. Between 1987 and 1991, he served as Assistant Secretary and Secretary of the Moscow Embassy, then three years at the

Geneva , neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier , website = https://www.geneve.ch/ Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevr ...

Permanent Representation in the UN and between 1994 and 1996 he was responsible for the EU-Russia relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1998, Anttonen was appointed Head of the Russian Unit and in 2001 the Deputy Director of the East Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 2002 and 2006, he served as the Minister and Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy in Washington, and then as the Energy Coordinator in Helsinki 2007–2008, until he was appointed Ambassador to

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...

. Anttonen was the Finnish Ambassador to Sweden from January 2017 until February 2018 as well was Finland's ambassador to Russia from 2008 until the end of April 2012. In November 2018, Anttonen summoned Russia's Ambassador to Finland Pavel Kuznetsov over the large-scale disruption of Finland's

Global Positioning System The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite sy ...

(GPS) signal during

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...

’s largest exercise in decades. After the Russian Ambassadorship, Anttonen served as the Under-Secretary of State for External Economic Relations.

Other activities

* Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), Member of the Advisory Council (since 2019)Advisory Council
Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA).

References

Living people Ambassadors of Finland to Russia 1957 births Ambassadors of Finland to Sweden People from Tampere {{Finland-bio-stub