Mikko Koskinen
Who?
I’m the director of communications and public relations at TELA. I started in this role in October 2023. Almost all my career, I’ve worked with politics, decision making and advocacy. Before TELA, I was an influencer communications consultant at Tekir. I’ve served as a state secretary or special assistant to a minister in three ministries. I’ve been head of political training with a political party and occupied a range of roles in different trade union bodies for almost eight years. At the start of my career, I was an MP’s assistant in Parliament. I have a master’s in social sciences from the University of Turku. I majored in political history and my minors were in political science, social policy and futures research.
Responsibilities
- Management and development of communications and public relations
- Supervisory responsibilities
Working groups
- Board of the European Association of Paritarian Institutions of Social Protection
Ask me
- Anything to do with TELA, communications and public relations. If I can’t answer, I’ll be happy to pass the questions on to my skilled colleagues!
The earnings-related pension system is like making a blue cheese – few people know how to do it from beginning to end, but everyone has an opinion about the product itself.
Mikko Koskinen, Director, communications and public relations
In my spare time:
Outside work, most of my free time goes to caring for my four kids. That means a lot of cooking, driving them to their hobbies, checking their homework, getting them dressed and reading them bedtime stories. In my free time, I like to keep active: I swim, jog and go to the gym. I love commuting by bike, and I like to cycle almost year-round on my e-bike between home and work and from place to place during the working day. I like to read. I read everything possible, from non-fiction to crime novels. I particularly like science fiction. One of my favourite hobbies is cosmology and, in particular, contemplating existential questions. Thinking about the origin and future of the universe puts work and everyday troubles in the right context and proportion.
Comments by workmates:
“A lobbying professional who has instinct and networks! He’s businesslike and manages public relations and communications extremely stylishly and with a firm grip. Mikko comes up with ideas and constantly adds new and successful elements to TELA’s advocacy work. You can only admire his zeal and ability to get things completed! He’s a fast-moving, productive colleague with a lot of ideas. He’s always ready to find solutions. What’s more, he has a sense of humour – something that unites everyone at TELA. Of course, everyone has their own approach to comic skills. Not everyone finds puns funny, but thankfully Mikko K likes them.
No one could be more of a Christmas person than Mikko! Who else would suggest putting up the office Christmas tree in October?”