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Petteri Taalas
Born
3 July 1961
Alma mater
University of Helsinki
TERI School of Advanced Studies
Occupation
Meteorologist
administrator
Employer
Finnish Meteorological Institute (2002–2005)
Finnish Meteorological Institute (2007–2015)
World Meteorological Organization (2016–)
Awards
Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland (2010)
Commander First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland (2021)
Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2018)
Cross of Merit of the Frontier Guards (2014)
Medal for Military Merits (2008)
Medal of Merit, First Class, of the Civil Defence (2004)
Jukka Petteri Taalas (born 3 July 1961 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish meteorologist and former Secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization.[1] Appointed in 2015 by the World Meteorological Congress, the supreme body of the Organization, he took up the four-year Secretary-General term on 1 January 2016, and was re-elected to a second four-year term on 13 June 2019. He was director general of the Finnish Meteorological Institute from 2002 to 2005 and 2007 to 2015.[2][3][4]
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^Petteri Taalas.[dead link] World Meteorological Organization. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
^"CV Petteri Taalas". Finnish Meteorological Institute. Archived from the original on 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
^"WMO Campaign". Finnish Meteorological Institute. Archived from the original on 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
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