Pirkko-Liisa Kyöstilä as Chargé d'Affaires to Katmandu

Pirkko-Liisa Kyöstilä has been appointed as Head of Mission, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim to Katmandu, Nepal as of 1 March, 2007. She is presently Counsellor at the Finnish Permanent Delegation to the OECD in Paris  where her duties include development cooperation, environmental issues, cooperation with non-members and sustainable development.

Kyöstilä joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1986 and has held various positions at the Department for International Development Cooperation as well as the Division for Multilateral Cooperation. She has been posted to the Finnish Embassies in Dar es Salaam and Rome.

She has previously been employed as an Associate Expert for the UN Industrial Development Organisation in Djakarta, Indonesia