Consul General of Finland in New York

Consul General, Head of Mission Miia Rantanen

September 2026 – 

Ms. Miia Rantanen serves as the Consul General of Finland in New York. She has over 20 years of experience in the Foreign Service, particularly in trade diplomacy.

Before her current position, she was the Director of the Business Services Unit at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, where she also served as the Director of the Trade Promotion Unit. Previously, Ms. Rantanen worked as the Deputy Director of the Unit for Eastern Asia and Oceania and as a Counsellor for U.S. Economic and Trade Policy. Her foreign postings include Tokyo, Japan, and Zagreb, Croatia, as well as the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations in New York.

Ms. Rantanen holds an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Tampere, Finland, where she studied International Politics, Asian Business Studies, Environmental Policy, and Japanese.

Ms. Rantanen is married and has two teenage daughters and a miniature poodle called Muru. In her free time, she enjoys long walks in nature, listening to Finnish heavy metal music, and visiting museums.