Dear Visitor,

Tervetuloa and welcome to the website of the Embassy of Switzerland in Finland. Switzerland and Finland have deep and longstanding ties. Many shared values are at the core of our strong relations and enduring friendship. We work together to promote peace, human rights and gender equality, to protect the environment and to advance global sustainability. We share a firm commitment to multilateralism, a rules-based global order and a progressive trade agenda.

My colleagues and I look very much forward to working with you, and to introducing all that Switzerland has to offer as a destination for education and travel, as a partner for innovation, research and new technologies as well as a place to invest and do business with. 

Consular services are provided by the Regional Consular Center in Stockholm. For consular matters you are invited to contact the Consular Center directly. It provides information on consular issues, such as passports and identity cards, civil status affairs, political rights and legalizations.

Thank you for browsing our website! We hope you will find it helpful. Your thoughts, ideas and feedback are always welcome.  You can also find out more about our activities following me on X and the Embassy on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Sabrina Dallafior Matter

Biography

Since August 2023 Sabrina Dallafior Matter has been posted in Helsinki as Ambassador of Switzerland to Finland.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Eastern European History and Russian Studies from the University of Basel, her hometown. In 2000 she joined the Swiss Diplomatic Service and started her career at the Swiss Mission to the EU. Thereafter, she stayed in Brussels and worked at the Swiss Mission to NATO. Back at the Headquarters in Berne, she covered various multilateral security policy issues and subsequently became Head of the OSCE Office. From 2008 to 2012 she was posted once again at the Swiss Mission to the EU in Brussels. Back in Berne, she was Deputy Head of the Human Security Division. From 2016 to 2019 she was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the Conference of Disarmament and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Geneva. From 2019 to 2023 she was Consul General of Switzerland in Milan.

Sabrina Dallafior Matter is married to Urs and is mother of a boy.