Jaakko Laajava

Jaakko Tapani Laajava (born 23 June 1947 in Joensuu)[1] has served as Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for Finland from 1 April 2010.

[2] Between 2001 and 2004, Laajava worked as the political under-secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

[4] He moved there as Deputy Director General of the Political Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Head of the 1990–1996.

He was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the Embassy of Finland in 1986–1990.

In the early 1970s Laajava was represented by the Finnish Student Union in the DDR Recognition Committee.