René Nyberg

Ernst René Anselm Nyberg (born 13 February 1946, in Helsinki)[1] is a long-time Finnish diplomat and a former CEO of the East Office consultancy company.

In 1971, he joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and took up various duties in Moscow, Leningrad, Brussels, Bonn and Permanent Representatives of Finland to the OSCE in Vienna between 1992 and 1995.

Nyberg started as the Managing Director of East Office in 2008.

[2] Since 2016, he serves as a director/trustee of the School of Civic Education in London,[4] which forms part of an association of schools of political studies, under the auspices of the Directorate General of Democracy (“DGII”) of the Council of Europe.

In the book The Last Train to Moscow, Nyberg tells about the steps of the Jewish mother's Fanny's family's life and portrays Eastern European Judaism.