Organisation and contact information

The Section for Country Information Service operates under the Legal Service and Country Information Unit of the Finnish Immigration Service.

Management

Sirpa Ranta, Head of Country Information

• Coordination of international COI collaboration (IGC/COI, AMIF/MedCOI and EUAA/COI); EU and EEA countries; North America; Oceania; Tellus database for country of origin information; contact person for the EUAA COI Strategic Network

Mikko Nyman, Team Leader

• Immediate superior of researchers; EUAA Training Curriculum/COI, MedCOI

Researchers and regions

Middle East and North Africa

• Peter Sandelin
• Mika Niskanen
• Severi Raja-aho
• Elina Ilvonen

Eastern and Southern Africa, West Africa, Latin America

• Riku Santaharju
• Sara Meriläinen
• Emilia Mäki
• Elina Mäntylä

Asia, Russia, other CIS-countries, Balkan

• Esa Ojala
• Antero Leitzinger
• Mikael Kujala
• Johanna Laine
• Maria Kyrönlahti
• Mikko Lehikoinen

Planning Officers, Tellus database for country of origin information

• Daniel Grant
• Tomi Jääskeläinen