Howard Brodie (diplomat)

Howard Brodie
Official portrait, 2025
United States Ambassador to Finland
Incumbent
Assumed office
November 13, 2025
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byDoug Hickey
Personal details
BornHoward Wexler Brodie[1]
Pennsylvania, U.S.
PartyRepublican
SpouseJimena Aparicio Brodie
Children3
EducationDuke University (BA)
Yale Law School (JD)

Howard Brodie is an American businessman, attorney, and diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Finland since 2025.

Early life and education

Howard Brodie was born in Pennsylvania to Elizabeth and Stefan Brodie,[2][3] a billionaire businessman and Republican megadonor who was convicted of conspiring to violate the United States embargo against Cuba in 2002.[4]

Brodie attended Duke University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science.[5] He attained a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1993,[6] where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa,[5] going on to study at the University of Oxford.[5] Brodie studied at the University of St. Petersburg from 1990 to 1992 while completing his law degree at Yale,[7] witnessing the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[2]

Career

After graduating from law school, Brodie clerked for United States circuit judge Gilbert Merritt,[5] and later practiced commercial law, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions.[7] He is admitted to practice law in both Pennsylvania and New York.[6]

Brodie served as the head of investment firm Brodie Generational Capital Partners,[8] helping facilitate the US$3.7 billion sale of his father's company, Purolite Corporation, to Ecolab.[5]

U.S. ambassador to Finland

On February 10, 2025, President Donald Trump nominated Brodie as United States ambassador to Finland.[8] He assumed office on November 13, 2025.[7]

Personal life

Brodie is married to Jimena Aparicio Brodie,[7] an immigrant from Mexico.[2] The couple have a son, born in 2024, and Brodie has two older children from a previous marriage.[7][9] Prior to assuming the role of ambassador, Brodie and his family split their time between Villanova, Pennsylvania, and Fisher Island, Florida.[7] He is Jewish.[10]

Brodie funded Yale Law School's Howard Wexler Brodie '93 Center for Jewish and Israeli Law, which is named after him.[10] He has donated to his alma mater regularly since 2022,[10] and was a member of the Yale Law School Fund Board.[10][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Embassy of the United States of America, Helsinki". Finland abroad: United States of America. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 "Statement of Howard W. Brodie" (PDF). Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
  3. ↑ Yourish, Karen; Vogel, Kenneth P.; Smart, Charlie (22 December 2025). "Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump's Return to Office". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
  4. ↑ Scheckner, Jesse (2 November 2024). "Palm Beach State Attorney candidate took $100K from donor that violated Cuba embargo". Florida Politics. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Brodie, Howard – Republic of Finland". United States Department of State. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
  6. 1 2 3 "Ambassador Howard W. Brodie". U.S. Embassy in Finland. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Ambassador Brodie Presented His Credentials to President Alexander Stubb on November 13, 2025". U.S. Embassy in Finland. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
  8. 1 2 "US President Trump announces new ambassador to Finland". YLE. 10 February 2025. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
  9. ↑ "Tuleva Suomen-suurlähettiläs hermostui vaimonsa kohtelusta, veti ulkoministerin oikeuteen" (in Finnish). Retrieved 3 July 2026.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "Center for Jewish and Israeli Law Offers New Approach to Interdisciplinary Study". Yale Law School. 1 August 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
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