Jaakko Hallama
1917–1996 (age 79)
Biography
Eino Jaakko Untamo Hallama (until 1934 Airaksinen; 28 March 1917 Kuopio – 11 February 1996 Helsinki) was a Finnish diplomat and a longtime Ambassador of Finland to Moscow, who served as minister for foreign affairs in the Lehto caretaker government from 1963 to 1964.
Hallama's parents were a lawyer, Eino Arvid Airaksinen, a lawyer and a kindergarten teacher, Inga Kajsi Hallman. He spent some of his childhood and youth in Viipuri. After divorcing his parents, Jaakko took up his mother's maiden name when he was 16 years old. He translated it from Hallman to Hallama.
He graduated from Kuopio lyceum in 1936, studied at Cambridge University in 1938 and graduated in Finland as a Bachelor of Philosophy in 1941. In 1960 he received a Special Envoy and a Plenipotentiary Minister.
Hallama has been employed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 1941. He served as Assistant to the Ministry from 1941 to 1943, Assistant to Bern in 1943-1945 and as a Chamber Secretary in 1945–1948.
Hallama served as secretary of state in Brussels from 1948 to 1949 and in Washington from 1949 to 1952 and then as a division officer in 1952-1954 and as counselor in Moscow 1954–1958.
He served as director general for political affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1959 to 1962, secretary of state from 1962 to 1967, ambassador to Moscow in 1967-1970 and 1974-1982 and Copenhagen (1970-1974).