Pekka Malinen

Pekka Kullervo Malinen (11 June 1921 Viipuri – 21 September 2004) was Ambassador and Minister and Diplomat.

[1] Male's parents were the farmer Esko Malinen and his wife Hilda Junttu.

During the Second World War, Malinen served in the Waffen-SS volunteer battalion recruited by Nazi Germany as an SS-Unterscharführer.

Mr Malinen was Director of the Development Cooperation Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Ambassador in five different countries:In Egypt[4] and in Syria from 1969 to 1974, Permanent Representative of Finland to the OECD in Paris 1978-1983, Algeria and Tunisia from 1983 to 1985 and the last post in Portugal from 1985 to 1988.

[1] In August 1989, Malinen, retired, raised the debate with a report entitled "Kehitysapu täysremonttiin".