Administration

Council

The highest decision-making body in Keva is the Council.

The Ministry of Finance appoints Keva’s Councillors for each municipal and regional election term.

Keva has 30 Councillors, six of whom, by law, are appointed from among the candidates put forward by the most representative national negotiating organisations representing the personnel of municipalities and wellbeing services counties. Four are appointed from among candidates put forward by Local and County Government Employers KT.

The remaining twenty are appointed from among the candidates jointly put forward by the central organisation of municipalities and the wellbeing services counties, in such a way that municipalities, joint municipal authorities, wellbeing services counties, and different parts of the country are fairly represented by the Councillors. The share of votes received by the various groups in municipal elections and wellbeing services county elections in accordance with the principle of proportionality provided for in the Elections Act (714/1998) is taken into account in the appointment of municipal, joint municipal authority, wellbeing services county and joint county authority for wellbeing services Councillors and deputies.

The term of the current Councillors began on 1 September 2025.

The chairman of the Council is Heikki Vestman and the vice-chairman is Eero Reijonen.

Members of Council

Board of Directors

The Board’s task is the general supervision and guidance of Keva’s activities. The Board’s function, according to law, is to decide on the pension fund investment plan.

Members of Board 2023-2025

Members of Management group

Personal E-mail addresses: firstname.lastname[at]keva.fi. Please, replace Scandinavian å, ä or ö. with a and o.

Jaakko Kiander CEO		Kimmo Mikander Deputy CEO		Ari Huotari CIO
Piia Laaksonen CFO and Chief Actuary		Reija Hyvärinen  Communication Director		Mika Gylén,  HR Director
Mikko Kenni, Director of Customer Relations and Work Ability		Markus Mankin,  Administrative Director, Secretary of Management  group		Staff member  representative, Birgitta Moisala Customer Manager

Working Life Development Working Group

The function of the Working Life Development Working Group is to develop measures for maintaining the health and work capacity of municipal employees. The focus of the group is the improvement of the quality of working life, maintaining and improving work capacity as well as on measures preventing incapacity to work.

The working group and its function are defined in Keva’s Standing Orders. The Board appoints the working group for its term of office. Of the 12 working group members, six are chosen based on proposals by the municipal sector’s employee organisations.

Members of Working Life Development Working Group 

Chairman Arja Aroheinä

Mari Antikainen

Kari Eskola

Jonas Fyrqvist

Tapani Hellstén

Keijo Karhumaa

Mikko Kenni

Konstantin Laakkonen

Päivi Lanttola

Tuula Metsä

Merja Paananen

Jussi Rantanen

Anne Sainila-Vaarno

Minna Salli

Sinikka Valtonen

Ulla Walli

Ulla Westermarck

Supervision

Keva’s operations are overseen by the Financial Supervisory Authority.

Internal control, risk management and internal audit  

Internal control

Internal control means all of the procedures, systems and methods through which Keva’s management and council aim to ensure efficient, economical and reliable operations and the accomplishment of its goals.

Internal control is a process which ensures the following: achieving set goals and aims as well as the economical and efficient use of resources the reliability and accuracy of financial and other management information complying with laws, regulations and instructions, as well as with decisions by administrative bodies, internal plans and operating methods.

Risk management

Risk management is an integral part of Keva’s internal control and it means the recognition, assessment, restriction and supervision of risks resulting from operations or significantly connected to them. Risk management also involves contingency and emergency planning to ensure the smooth continuation of operations.

The main objective of risk management is to support the development of Keva's operations and processes and the attainment of goals, in order to secure the rights of the insured and pension recipients in all situations.

The most significant risks for Keva are related to financing and investment activities and operational risks.

Further information on risk management: Annual report and interim reports

Internal audit

The internal audit of Keva assesses the efficiency and adequacy of internal control at the institution and provides proposals for improving operations. The internal audit operations are based on an internal audit activities plan approved annually by the Board. The function reports to the CEO and the council.

Compliance function at Keva

The Compliance function’s core duty is to assist in proactively anticipating the effects of legislative and regulatory changes on Keva’s operations. The Compliance function also serves to ensure that the entire organisation has the capacity to comply with legislation, statutory regulations and Keva’s in-house rules.

The Compliance function is tasked with the following:

• proactive anticipation of effects in legislative and regulatory changes 
• promotion of compliance with acts, decrees and statutory regulations
• supervision, advice and guidance for compliance with Keva’s in-house regulations, guidelines and principles 
• contribution to risk management and good governance projects within Keva

The maintenance and development of Keva’s independent Compliance function is the responsibility of the Compliance Officer whose primary function is to support the Board, management and the business in ensuring reliable administration and the effectiveness and sufficiency of internal control. Compliance reports to the CEO and also provides regular reports to the Board.

The responsibility for legislative and regulatory compliance always resides with the business units and management which are supported in this undertaking by the Compliance function.

Keva Code of Conduct - Our way of working