Pirkko Hämäläinen (diplomat)

Pirkko Mirjami Hämäläinen (born September 26, 1961) is a diplomat. In 2019 she became the Finnish ambassador to Austria and the International Organizations in Vienna including the United Nations.

Pirkko Hämäläinen
BornSeptember 26, 1961
Juankoski
NationalityFinland

Life

Hämäläinen was born in Juankoski in 1961. She completed her master's degree in 1988 and the following year she joined the Finnish diplomatic service.[1] She was in New York at the United Nations in 1989. She then served in Reykjavik, Vienna, Tallinn (Estonia 2005–2009). In 2012 she was in Riga as she became her country's Ambassador to Latvia. She was there until 2014[2] when she became an under secretary of state.[3] She served in that role looking after "internal and external services" until the end of 2018.[1]

On the first day of 2019 she became the Finnish Ambassador to Austria and the Permanent Representative of Finland to the International Organizations in Vienna including the United Nations.[2] She replaced Hannu Kyröläinen.[4]

gollark: Valithor's proprietary swarm mining software.
gollark: Do you discard redstone?
gollark: I guess you could probably bodge in support for a similar thing for valithor's. I would, but it's proprietary, obviously.
gollark: Yep!
gollark: You should put me, a completely unbiased individual who may or may not be standing, in charge.

References
  1. "President of the Republic appointed new Ambassadors". Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  2. "New Permanent Representative of Finland presents credentials". www.unis.unvienna.org. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  3. dp (2017-11-23). "Meeting between Ivica Tončev, State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ms Pirkko Hämäläinen, Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland". Diplomatic portal. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  4. "FINLAND - FAREWELL | UNIDO". www.unido.org. Retrieved 2020-04-27.


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