Jaani Pietikäinen

Jaani Pietikäinen holds a Master of Science degree in economics (Aalto University School of Business, Finland) and is a graduate (MBA) of INSEAD, Fontainebleau. He joined the European Investment Bank in 2003, after having worked for 10 years first at Nordea Bank in Helsinki and Moscow, and then at The Bank of New York Mellon in Moscow and London.
At the EIB he was responsible for lending operations in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from 2003 to 2010. In 2011 he joined the EIB’s Eastern Neighbours and Central Asia Department and in 2012 was nominated Deputy Head of Division responsible for lending operations in the Russian Federation and Southern Caucasus.
From September 2015 to November 2020, he worked as Head of Office to EIB Vice-Presidents Jan Vapaavuori, Alexander Stubb and Thomas Östros. He was then nominated Head of Division, Governing Bodies Secretariat Division in December 2020.
Jaani Pietikäinen moved to Finland in August 2021 to head the EIB Group Office for Finland. As Head of the Office, he is responsible for institutional relations with Finnish counterparts and supervises the operations of the Helsinki Office.