Petteri Taalas

Petteri Taalas
Born3 July 1961 Edit this on Wikidata
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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) Edit this on Wikidata
Position heldsecretary (World Meteorological Organization, 2016–2023) Edit this on Wikidata

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]

  1. ^ Paavilainen, Ulla, ed. (2014). Kuka kukin on: Henkilötietoja nykypolven suomalaisista 2015 [Who’s Who in Finland, 2015] (in Finnish). Helsinki: Otava. p. 900. ISBN 978-951-1-28228-0.
  2. ^ Petteri Taalas.[dead link‍] World Meteorological Organization. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  3. ^ "CV Petteri Taalas". Finnish Meteorological Institute. Archived from the original on 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  4. ^ "WMO Campaign". Finnish Meteorological Institute. Archived from the original on 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2016-10-28.