FFUW BOARD 2013 STARTS
The Finnish Federation of University Women (FFUW) has new board and new president who is professor, dr Helena Ranta. The board had first meeting of this year on 19th January and the rest of the board is consisting of the following persons:
Helena Ranta president
Siv Dahlin Jansson I vicepresident
Ritva Salmi II vicepresident
Gun-Britt Brunström
Aune Kariluoto
Liisa Luomanen
Auli Ojala (UWE treasurer)
Helena Pettinen
Mirja Saarni
Marja Liisa Toivanen CIR 2013-
Leena Tiitu
Jaana Tähtinen
As FFUW treasurer is operating Sirkka Oksanen and ombudsman is Susanna Sulkunen.
FFUW is one of the largest federations in UWE and IFUW and it has more than 1000 members plus 19 local associations. It is publishing magazine called Minerva (also in internet). The web address of FFUW is www.akateemisetnaiset.fi. The federation has board meetings every two months. Besides of that it has skype meetings and the office (in the center of Helsinki) is moving to paperless systems. Finland is one of the leading paper producer but also one of the most developed IT societies.
The first picture is showing president Ranta and former president Ritva Tammivaara. Second picture is meeting of new board 2013.


