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Viinikka is currently Director of the Unit for UN and General Global Affairs in the Political Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. She has also served in Finland's Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels and in the missions of Finland in Berlin and Bonn. In the Ministry, Viinikka has worked in the Department for Africa and the Middle East, the Department for Development Policy and the Unit for Human Rights Policy of the Political Department. From 2005 to 2007, she was Special Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Katri Viinikka joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1992 and took the Training Course for Newly Recruited Diplomats (Kavaku) in 1995.