Iina Soiri

Iina Soiri
Soiri (2017)
Born 29 August 1964
Nationality Finnish
Alma mater University of Helsinki

Iina Kaarina Soiri (born August 29, 1964) is a Finnish social scientist, director of the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden.

Life and work

Iina Soiri has a Master of Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki. She has spent 20 years on the African continent, in various countries such as Namibia, Mozambique, Angola and Tanzania, as an activist, diplomat, consultant and researcher working for both civil society organizations and public sector. She worked in the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Helsinki as a senior advisor on development policy and served in the Embassy of Finland in Dar es Salaam as a senior expert on governance 2006-2010.[1] She was a research fellow at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala from 1995 to 1996 and became director of the institute in March 2013.[2]

Her son, Pyry Soiri, is a professional footballer.[3]

Selected bibliography

  • Iina Soiri: The radical motherhood: Namibian women's independence struggle, 1996, ISBN 9171063803
  • Pekka Peltola and Iina Soiri: Finland and National Liberation in Southern Africa, 1999, ISBN 9789171064318

References

  1. ↑ Presentation of Iina Soiri at the Nordic Africa Institute's website, www.nai.uu.se/about/staff/direktor (read on October 20, 2016)
  2. ↑ Announcement of Iina Soiri's appointment to NAI on the website of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, www.formin.finland.fi/public/default.aspx?contentid=271022 (dated February 26, 2013, read on October 20, 2016)
  3. ↑ "Kuka Pyry Soiri? Värikkään lapsuuden viettänyt juureton kulkuri". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). 2017-10-07. Retrieved 2017-10-09.

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