- Career diplomat with the Finnish Foreign Service
- Working at the Department for Americas and Asia at the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Helsinki
-Counsellor responsible for issues related to trade and economy with the United States
- From 2010 to 2014, Mr. Lindström was the DCM at the Finnish Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal
- Was responsible for issues related to trade and economy and the European economic crisis
- From 2007 to 2010 he was Counsellor and DCM at the Finnish Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia
- Was head of the trade and development sectors
- Between 2005 - 2007 he was the adviser to the undersecretary of state for legal and administrative affairs at the MFA in Helsinki, Finland
- Between 2001 – 2005 he was Deputy Consul General at the Consulate General of Finland in Los Angeles