- Director
Suvi Järvinen, Executive Assistant, suvi.jarvinen@hybridcoe.fi
Teija Tiilikainen is the Director of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats. Previously, she was the Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (2010-2019) and has been the Director of the Network of European Studies at the University of Helsinki (2003-2009).
She has served as Secretary of State at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland from 2007 to 2008. She was a member of the European Convention in 2002-03 and a member of the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project led by Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger in 2015-16. From 2018 to 2023, Dr Tiilikainen was a part-time professor (non-residential) at the European University Institute (School of Transnational Governance) in Florence. Dr Tiilikainen has served as vice-chair of the executive board of the University of Helsinki from 2018 to 2021. Currently she serves as vice-chair of the board of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
In her research, Dr Tiilikainen has focused on issues related to European integration (institutional questions, the EU’s external relations, including Common Foreign and Security Policy and Common Security and Defence Policy) and on European security policy.
Full CV (pdf)
List of recent publications (pdf)
