Juha Suoranta

Juha Suoranta (born 24 February 1966 in Tampere, Finland) is a Finnish social scientist, and public intellectual.

Suoranta has served as the Government of Finland/David and Nancy Speer Visiting Professor in Finnish Studies and Sociology at the University of Minnesota in 2005-2006.

He has also served as a short-term educational expert in Tanzania, and a consultant and author for the United Nations' World Youth Report 2003.

[5] Besides English and Finnish, his texts have been published in Estonian, Greek, Norwegian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

[7] In the Spring 2009 Suoranta provided a hiding place for an Afghan-born underaged asylum seeker, who was about to be deported from Finland to the streets of Athens in Greece without safety.