Unit for Sectoral Policy
The Unit for Sectoral Policy is responsible for the following issues:
- preparation and application of sectoral and thematic policies and strategies, and participation in such international cooperation as does not fall under the competence of other units of the Ministry
- provision of expert services to departments and units in charge of development cooperation issues
- monitoring of the quality of development cooperation, upgrading of development cooperation instruments and provision of advice
- improvement of the regulations, instructions, methods and administration of development cooperation related to sectoral policies
- the development policy dimensions of trade and
development, and Aid for Trade matters - coordination of the work of the Quality Assurance Board.
- KEO-20@gov.fi
Personnel
Sami Pirkkala
Director
- +358 295 350 907
Senior advisers for development policy
Vesa Kaarakka
Senior Adviser, Development Policy
forest questions
- +358 295 350 963
Outi Myatt-Hirvonen
Senior Adviser, Development Policy
- +358 295 350 317

Krista Orama
Senior Adviser, Development policy, Gender Equality
- +358 295 350 066
Heli Mikkola
- +358 295 350 592
Katja Tiilikainen
Senior Adviser, Development Policy
Senior Adviser, Development policy, Gender Equality
- +358 295 350 632
- +358 50 575 1760

Jussi Karakoski
Senior Adviser, Development Policy
- +358 50 407 6338
- +358 295 350 248
Lotta Valtonen
Senior Adviser, Development Policy
Democracy and Governance
- +358 295 350 423
Mika Vehnämäki
- +358 295 350 984
Silja Leinonen
Senior Adviser, Development Policy
innovation and digital development
- +358 295 350 302
Iina Älli
- +358 295 350 230
- +358 50 314 5285
Jukka Ilomäki
Senior Adviser, Development Policy
- +358 295 350 093
E-mail addresses are in the form: forename.surname@gov.fi. Scandinavian characters are replaced by: ä=a, ö=o, å=a.