Veli-Matti Rissanen MA is a scholar and teacher in Classical languages and culture at the University of Turku and translator of Classical literature into Finnish.

Rissanen also teaches Latin at the Turku Adult Education Centre. His special interests are the letters and philosophical works of Cicero and Cicero’s legacy.

Volume 1 of his translation of the letters of Cicero into Finnish was published in late autumn 2021.