Riitta Hannele Resch (née Niemi) (born 2 September 1954)[1] is a Finnish diplomat. She is a leading expert at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Humanitarian Aid and Policy Unit.[2] Resch worked as an ambassador in Manila from 2004 to 2008. She started working at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1982.[3]
Resch worked as an ambassador in Cyprus, Nicosia from 2008 to 2012,[4] [5] and was the head of the United Nations delegation to Finland.[6] Resch has also served in the Embassies of Paris and New Delhi, as well as at the Geneva Delegation and the UN Representation in New York. In her home-country foreign ministry she has worked as a head of the UN unit in the Legal, Trade and Political Department and before moving to Manila in the Global Affairs Department as Head of the Global Global Unit.