Lauri Tähtinen
Non-Resident Fellow- Western Hemisphere
- Transatlantic Affairs
- Global South
Lauri Tähtinen is a non-resident fellow at FIIA. He is also the CEO of the company Mission Grey and a non-resident senior associate at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Americas Program. He previously served at Harvard University, Brown University, and the University of Helsinki, in addition to being a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Tähtinen’s expertise focuses on the Western Hemisphere, and his work has been published in publications such as Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy.
Degrees
PhD in history, University of Cambridge, 2012
Master of theological studies, Harvard University, 2006
BSc in international relations, London School of Economics, 2004
LLB, University of London, 2025
Language skills
English, Finnish, Portuguese (working languages); Spanish (intermediate); French, Italian, Swedish (receptive skills)