Kirsti Helena Kauppi (born 1957) was the Finnish ambassador to the United States from January 2015 to September 2020.

Prior to that she was in the post of Head of the Political Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1 April 2012 until the end of 2014.

In addition to Vienna, Kauppi has served in the Finnish embassy in Berlin from 2003 to 2005 as Deputy Chief of Mission (Minister), as well in Washington, D.C. from 1997 to 2000, and Bangkok (1989–92).

Ambassador Kauppi's solid knowledge on European Union affairs builds on her four-year tenure from 1993 to 1997, in the Finnish Permanent Mission to the EU in Brussels.

[5] On 13 May 2016, Kauppi was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in honor of Finland’s president Sauli Niinistö and other Nordic leaders Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson and Stefan Löfven at the White House.