Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Finland
to the United Nations
Prior to the current position, Ms. Kalkku served as Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland 2015-2022, responsible for development policy and relations with African and Middle Eastern countries. Prior to that, she served as Director General of the Department for Americas and Asia-Pacific in 2005-2015. In 2000-2005, she served as Director of the Security Policy unit at the Political Department of the Ministry.
Ms. Kalkku joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1983. She has previously served abroad at the Finnish Mission to the UN in New York (1987-1991) and the Finnish Mission to Nato in Brussels as well as at the Finnish Embassies in Madrid and Brussels.
She was a member of the Finnish delegation to the UN Security Council in New York in 1989-90. She also was a diplomatic advisor to the Foreign Minister of Finland at the Ministry in the 1990s.
Ms. Kalkku holds Masters (1982) and Licentiate of Law (1999) degrees from the University of Helsinki, specializing in international law. She was born in Helsinki in She is married and has grown-up children.
Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations
Ambassador and Permanent Representative