Matias Perttula

Matias Perttula served for five years in Washington, D.C., as director of advocacy for International Christian Concern (ICC), where he led efforts to inform the key legislators on global religious freedom challenges facing Christians and other religious minorities. During this time he also chaired the program committee for the International Religious Freedom Summit in 2021 and 2022. Prior to this, Perttula was an assistant at the Brookings Institution for the vice president and director of foreign policy.