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]

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


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