Guy Lindstrom

Guy Lindstrom has had a long career in international relations, spanning work for the International Department of Parliament of Finland, the Nordic Council (a regional organization for the five Scandinavian countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden), as well as the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

His main responsibilities have included Arctic policy, security and defence issues, and Asia-Europe relations. He took part in the work to set up the Arctic Council in the 1990s and served as the first Secretary General of the Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region. In the Nordic Council, he was Secretary General of the Finnish delegation and, before that, Committee Counsel for the International Affairs Committee and the Committee on Culture, Research, and Education. In the Finnish parliament he has also led other staff positions, including with the research service.

Over the years, Guy Lindstrom has been engaged in promoting international regional cooperation as well as in the strengthening democracy and parliamentary work in different parts of the world. Prior to his retirement in 2015, he organized for fifteen years, in cooperation with the World Bank, an annual Helsinki seminar on parliamentary strengthening.