Suzanne Innes-Stubb


Suzanne Elizabeth Innes-Stubb is a British-Finnish attorney and the wife of Alexander Stubb, President of Finland. She is the first person of non-Finnish origin who is the spouse of the President of Finland during the presidency, while the first non-Finnish spouse of a president was Gustaf Mannerheim's first wife who was Russian. Innes-Stubb worked as Head of Global Compliance at KONE.

Early life

Suzanne Innes was born in Solihull, England. Her mother is from Essex and her father is of Scottish descent. Both of her parents were teachers. Her brothers still farm their mother's family farm near Stansted Airport.
Innes studied law, French and German at the University of Surrey and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1992. She went on to study European Union law at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. She earned her LLM degree in 1995.

Career

While living in Brussels in 1999, Innes-Stubb worked for the law firm White & Case. When the family moved to Helsinki, she started working for the firm's Helsinki office.
In 2014, Innes-Stubb started working as Head of Legal for the Finnish media group Sanoma. Innes-Stubb began working for the Finnish elevator engineering company KONE as the Head of Global Compliance in 2017. In March 2024, she resigned in order to start in a new position at Aalto University starting September 2024.

Personal life

Innes met Stubb in 1994 while studying law at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. They were engaged in 1997 and married in 1998. The couple has two children.
In addition to English, Innes-Stubb speaks French, German, Finnish and Swedish.

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