Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Dr Hiski Haukkala has been the Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) since autumn 2024. He is also an Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Tampere University (Finland) and a Senior Research Associate at RAND Europe. Until spring 2024, he was the Secretary General and Chief of the Cabinet at the Office of the President of Finland. Previously, he has held positions at the Universities of Turku and Tampere, the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, as well as visiting positions at the University of Oxford, the Wilson Center (Washington, DC), the College of Europe in Natolin (Warsaw), the EU Institute of Security Studies (Paris), the IISS (London), and the University of Stirling (Scotland). He is the author of numerous publications on EU foreign policy, Russia, and international security.