Berkley Center

Pekka Metso is ambassador at large for intercultural and interreligious dialogue processes in the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) in Helsinki, focusing on both multilateral and bilateral fora. He has worked for the past 28 years in the Finnish MFA; his most recent posting was as the Finnish ambassador to Slovenia and to Bosnia and Herzegovina. In his previous duties Metso worked with the United Nations, serving both in Geneva and New York, with human rights at the heart of that work. He did post-graduate work at the University of Minnesota.