Matti Anttonen

Matti Kalervo Anttonen (born 27 November 1957)[1] is a Finnish diplomat and the present Secretary of State for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland since 1 March 2018.

In 1998, Anttonen was appointed Head of the Russian Unit and in 2001 the deputy director of the East Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Between 2002 and 2006, he served as the Minister and Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy in Washington, and then as the Energy Coordinator in Helsinki 2007–2008, until he was appointed Ambassador to Moscow.

In November 2018, Anttonen summoned Russia's Ambassador to Finland Pavel Kuznetsov over the large-scale disruption of Finland's Global Positioning System (GPS) signal during NATO’s largest exercise in decades.

[7] After the Russian Ambassadorship, Anttonen served as the Under-Secretary of State for External Economic Relations.