Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation

The Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation is responsible for the following issues:

  • Finnfund, Public Sector Investment Facility (PIF), interest subsidy policy and business partnership support facility along with some other private sector instruments;

  • International Financial Institutions, developing countries’ debt policies and innovative financing mechanisms;

  • Development investments;

  • Taxation for development.

Email

  • KEO-50@gov.fi

Personnel

Emmi Oikari
Director
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 350 964

Multilateral Development Banks

Kaisa Heikkilä
Team Leader
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 351 118
Soili Mäkeläinen-Buhanist
Ambassador Financing for sustainable development
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 350 742
CV
Janna Heikkinen-Hindrén
Senior Specialist
development funding
African Development Bank Group, Inter-American Development Bank Group
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 350 631
Katariina Tanhua-Tyrkkö
Desk Officer
Asian Development Bank (ADB), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 350 351
Juhana Tuunanen
Desk Officer
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 350 413

Private Sector Instruments

Oskar Kass
development funding
Team Leader
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 50 471 2099
Riitta Mensonen
Desk Officer
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
Jenny Sjöberg
Senior Specialist
development funding
Finnfund
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 350 079
Ari Tenho
Desk Officer
PIF Investment Facility
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 350 188
Henna-Riikka Pihlapuro
Desk Officer
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 350 124
Suvi Salo
Desk Officer
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 351 124
Mika Vehnämäki
Senior Adviser, Development Policy
Finances and Private Sector Development
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 350 984

Development policy loans and investments

Venla Voutilainen
Team Leader
Management of the investment portfolio, blended finance, legislation
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 350 768
Anna Erkkilä
Senior Adviser, Development Policy
IDB Invest and FCA Investments funds, Team Finland
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 350 659
Veera Iija
Senior Officer
EBRD HIPCA, ADBV, and IFC funds, Nordic cooperation, climate finance
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 350 849

Taxation for development

Milla Shor
Desk Officer
Embassy of Finland, Stockholm
Timo Voipio
Development Policy
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 350 266
Petra Yliportimo
Team Leader
Unit for Development Finance and Private Sector Cooperation
  • +358 295 350 722

E-mail addresses are in the form: forename.surname@gov.fi. Scandinavian characters are replaced by: ä=a, ö=o, å=a.