Organisation
European Training Foundation
Position
Director
Biography
Dr Pilvi Torsti is the Director of the European Training Foundation. She served as a State Secretary in three ministries in Finland: the Ministry of Education and Culture (2013-2015) and Ministry of Employment and Economic Affairs & Ministry of Transport and Communications (2019-2023). From 2017 to 2019, Pilvi Torsti was an MP and a member of the education and future committees of the Finnish parliament. She holds a PhD in social sciences from the University of Helsinki, and is also the Co-Founder of United World College in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also, she founded HEI Schools, an education company co-owned by the University of Helsinki where she has been an Adjunct pProfessor since 2012 and was nominated as the Adjunct Professor of the year in 2020. Pilvi is UWC graduate (1995) and Eisenhower Fellow (2013). She is married with three children.
Speaking in:
#EUSocialForum 2026: Pact for Skills: Closing the skills gap for a competitive Europe
#EUSocialForum 2023: Investing in People in Ukraine