Petteri Taalas

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Full Name	Petteri Taalas
Occupation	World Meteorological Organization
Date Of Birth	Jul 3, 1961(1961-07-03)
Age	63
Birthplace	Helsinki
Country	Finland
Birth City	Helsinki
Horoscope	Leo

Petteri Taalas Biography

Petteri Taalas is one of the most popular and richest World Meteorological Organization who was born on July 3, 1961 in Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. Born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1961, Taalas married Anni Taalas, nee Minkkinen, in 1986. They have two sons (born 1990 and 1996) and three daughters (1993, 1993 and 2000). He speaks fluent English and Finnish, moderate German and Swedish and basic French and Russian.

Over his career, Taalas has been an adept of change management to enhance efficiency in the various organizations with which he worked, including research institutes, government agencies, universities and private companies. It is his ambition to do so again as WMO Secretary-General. Taalas is motivated to support the developing countries and countries in economic transition, especially through project implementation, for example, in Africa, small-island developing states in the Pacific and Caribbean and in southeast Europe. This motivation guided his career prior to his appointment as WMO Secretary-General, while serving as the Director-General of the Finnish Meteorological Institute (from 2002-2015, excluding 2005-2007) and when he was Director of Development and Regional Activities at WMO from 2005-2007.

Petteri Taalas is the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization. His four-year term started 1 January 2016. He has a mandate from WMO Members to develop activities that give greater support to Weather, Climate and Water services, research and development institutions and the private sector. Investments in weather and climate early warning services offer a powerful means to adapt to climate variability and change in time scales ranging from minutes to decades. Taalas has been in charge of a historical reform of the WMO constituent bodies and their working practices. E.g. the former eight technical commissions are now merged to two to promote holistic weather-climate-water-oceans-environment observing systems and services. Better engagement of private sector and world leading scientific experts, as well as key partner organizations is a part of the reform. Also reallocation of the Secretariat resources from administration to scientific and technical expertise is under way.

Taalas studied meteorology, physics, physical chemistry and international development at the University of Helsinki. He was awarded a PhD in Meteorology by the Helsinki University Physics Department in 1993, following presentation of his thesis on Arctic and Antarctic stratospheric and lower atmospheric ozone. In 1997, he became a docent at the University of Eastern Finland, and also gave lectures at University of Helsinki and Helsinki University for Technology on atmospheric dynamics, global change and Earth Observations. He also pursued management training at Helsinki University on Economics in 1998 and 2004 as well as public sector management in 2003. Prior to that he studied International management at Leonardo da Vinci University in Paris in 1996.

Petteri Taalas Net Worth

Petteri Taalas is one of the richest World Meteorological Organization from Finland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Petteri Taalas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Petteri Taalas (born 3 July 1961 in Helsinki, Finland) is the Secretary- general of the World Meteorological Organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. 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.

After his military service and training at the Naval Academy, he became a reserve officer in 1981 and a reserve captain in 2003, following a National Defense Course. Finnish is his mother tongue. He is fluent in English, has moderate skills in German and Swedish, and basic skills in Russian and French.

Taalas has held several positions and board memberships in both national and international organizations, serving as a member of the WMO Executive Council and the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Council, and he is past Chairman of both the EUMETSAT (2010-2014) and the EUMETNET (2003-2005) Councils. He was the first Chairman of the Board of the University of Eastern Finland (2009-2015), which was formed by merging the Universities of Kuopio and Joensuu. He was also on the advisory board and on the board of directors of Fortum energy company (2010-2015), one of the leading low carbon energy providers in Northern Europe.

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Petteri Ranked on the list of most popular World Meteorological Organization. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Finland. Petteri Taalas celebrates birthday on July 3 of every year.