Hiski Haukkala currently works as an Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Management at the University of Tampere, and as a Senior Researcher at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
He will assume his position as Foreign Policy Adviser on 1 August 2016.
The current Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of the Republic, Mikko Hautala, will take up the post of Finnish Ambassador in Moscow on 1 September.