Kalle Kankaanpää is the Ambassador of Finland to Croatia, the Holy See (Vatican) and Bosnia and Herzegovina since April 2021. Kankaanpää transferred to Zagreb from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in Helsinki, where he worked as Director of the Unit for Northern Europe. In the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, he has also worked in the Unit for Russia and has held positions relating to regional cooperation. His career in the Diplomatic Service includes posts at the Embassy of Finland in Vilnius and at Finland's Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels, where he also served as national specialist in the European External Action Service (EEAS).