Susanna Mälkki (born 13 March 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish conductor and cellist. Mälkki trained as a cellist as a pupil of Hannu Kiiski, and later studied conducting with Jorma Panula, as well as Eri Klas and Leif Segerstam, at the Sibelius Academy. She also studied at London's Royal Academy of Music. She participated in a Sibelius Academy Conductor's Workshop at Carnegie Hall in 1998, under the supervision of Panula and Esa-Pekka Salonen.