Leena-Kaisa Mikkola

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Leena-Kaisa Mikkola" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources. Please help by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources: "Leena-Kaisa Mikkola" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Leena-Kaisa Mikkola is a Finnish diplomat. She was Finnish Ambassador to Tel Aviv from 1 September 2011 to 30 August 2016. She joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1992.^[1] Before that, Mikkola worked at the Finnish Red Cross.

Prior to her work as an ambassador Mikkola was the Head of Unit at the Political Department of the Foreign Ministry at the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Unit, where she was from 2007 to 2011. Currently, Mikkola is the Director General of the Africa Middle East Department at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.^[1]

In January 2021 Mikkola was named as the next Finnish Ambassador to China and she will be assigned to Beijing on Autumn 2021.^[2]